Families United For Justice

" Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains By Annie Cheney
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Brokers-Americas-Underground-Remains/dp/0767917332
Annie Cheney's book tells the grisly stories about what funeral homes, medical schools, and crematorium owners are really doing to our deceased loved ones in this country for big profits. It also reveals how medical examiners and their assistants (called dieners) have easy opportunities to take, keep and sell all kinds of body parts taken without family members' knowledge or permission during autopsies. Those living in Michigan should pay extra attention to Chapter 6, which highlights a thriving body-brokerage company called International Biological, Inc. (IBI) located in Grosse Pointe. In 2005, IBI owner Arthur Rathburn, who received his mortuary science license in Michigan in March 1982, paid nearly a million dollars for the A. D. Price Funeral Establishment in Richmond, Virginia. Obviously, Rathburn's business is booming - and state and federal legislators continue to do nothing to protect the public from the unscrupulous operators of this unregulated industry.

" Danger Zone - Unlock the Secrets of Nursing Home Medical Records and Protect Your Loved One By Dennis R. Steele and Edward C. Watters III, M.D.
http://www.memberofthefamily.net/
A book that explains how to tell the difference between what a nursing home's staff "says" it is doing for your loved one in the medical records, compared to what they are "actually" doing to them physically, mentally and emotionally. The book explains how to document your observations, and it shows you some of the many tricks that nursing homes, state regulators and the ombudsman's staff play to keep you and your family in the dark about patient care. The book also tries to show you how to outmaneuver some of the misleading, deceptive, and dangerous tactics used by state employees, health care providers and health care facilities, where profits are always put before people. A major drawback is that the book does not address how families should deal with nursing homes' electronic record-keeping systems. In addition, the book does not inform you that health care providers and their attorneys can remove and delete any information they want from your loved one's designated record set. The book also does not address the many difficulties in filing a HIPAA complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Information about how to order the book is available on the group's Web site. (See link above.)



	Book Links " Body Brokers: Inside America's Underground Trade in Human Remains By Annie Cheney http://www.amazon.com/Body-Brokers-Americas-Underground-Remains/dp/0767917332 Annie Cheney's book tells the grisly stories about what funeral homes, medical schools, and crematorium owners are really doing to our deceased loved ones in this country for big profits. It also reveals how medical examiners and their assistants (called dieners) have easy opportunities to take, keep and sell all kinds of body parts taken without family members' knowledge or permission during autopsies. Those living in Michigan should pay extra attention to Chapter 6, which highlights a thriving body-brokerage company called International Biological, Inc. (IBI) located in Grosse Pointe. In 2005, IBI owner Arthur Rathburn, who received his mortuary science license in Michigan in March 1982, paid nearly a million dollars for the A. D. Price Funeral Establishment in Richmond, Virginia. Obviously, Rathburn's business is booming - and state and federal legislators continue to do nothing to protect the public from the unscrupulous operators of this unregulated industry. " Danger Zone - Unlock the Secrets of Nursing Home Medical Records and Protect Your Loved One By Dennis R. Steele and Edward C. Watters III, M.D. http://www.memberofthefamily.net/ A book that explains how to tell the difference between what a nursing home's staff "says" it is doing for your loved one in the medical records, compared to what they are "actually" doing to them physically, mentally and emotionally. The book explains how to document your observations, and it shows you some of the many tricks that nursing homes, state regulators and the ombudsman's staff play to keep you and your family in the dark about patient care. The book also tries to show you how to outmaneuver some of the misleading, deceptive, and dangerous tactics used by state employees, health care providers and health care facilities, where profits are always put before people. A major drawback is that the book does not address how families should deal with nursing homes' electronic record-keeping systems. In addition, the book does not inform you that health care providers and their attorneys can remove and delete any information they want from your loved one's designated record set. The book also does not address the many difficulties in filing a HIPAA complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Information about how to order the book is available on the group's Web site. (See link above.)