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Doubts cast on whether ’04 Chicago police shooting of girl, suspect was justified

August 22, 2021 at 9:57 p.m.

On a summer night in 2004, two Chicago police officers chased an alleged gunman up to the front door of a West Side two-flat. There, according to the officers, the...

Doctor’s lucrative ties to drug firm

May 12, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dilemma. On one hand, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein was bringing the company a small fortune in sales and was conducting research...

Doctor’s lucrative ties to drug firm

August 22, 2021 at 6:38 p.m.

Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dilemma. On one hand, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein was bringing the company a small fortune in sales and was conducting research...

Shirley Palmer's brother Alvin Essary died at a nursing home on the North Side in 1999 of clozapine intoxication. Palmer, of Bloomington, Ill., said she can't believe the doctor who prescribed the drug to Essary is still practicing.

Doctor gives risky drugs at high rate

November 3, 2021 at 3:18 p.m.

Inside Chicago's Maxwell Manor nursing home, Dr. Michael Reinstein's patients suffered from side effects so severe that they trembled, hallucinated or lost control of their bladders. Staffers told state investigators...

Doctor gives risky drugs at high rate

August 22, 2021 at 9:58 a.m.

Inside Chicago's Maxwell Manor nursing home, Dr. Michael Reinstein's patients suffered from side effects so severe that they trembled, hallucinated or lost control of their bladders. Staffers told state investigators...

One psychiatrist, many prescriptions

August 22, 2021 at 6:38 p.m.

No psychiatrist in Illinois -- or Texas, Florida and California, for that matter -- has come close to Dr. Michael Reinstein in prescribing the antipsychotic drug clozapine to public aid...

One psychiatrist, many prescriptions

May 13, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

No psychiatrist in Illinois -- or Texas, Florida and California, for that matter -- has come close to Dr. Michael Reinstein in prescribing the antipsychotic drug clozapine to public aid...

Doctor gives risky drugs at high rate

May 13, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.

Inside Chicago's Maxwell Manor nursing home, Dr. Michael Reinstein's patients suffered from side effects so severe that they trembled, hallucinated or lost control of their bladders. Staffers told state investigators...

Illinois has cited half of best nursing homes

June 18, 2018 at 11:03 p.m.

Half of Illinois' best nursing homes -- those rated four or five stars by the federal government -- have been cited at least once since 2001 for misusing psychotropic drugs,...

On Wednesdays, nursing home patient Delores "Dee" Fleming is taken out to lunch at a Dairy Queen in Monticello, Ill., by family members who include daughters Judy (from left), Sandy Born and Sue Kinney. Last year, Fleming's family moved her out of a Mount Zion nursing home where she was given psychotropic drugs and became catatonic.

Nursing home doctors untouched even as facilities are cited

June 18, 2018 at 11:06 p.m.

Delores Fleming's relatives tried to keep her in her house as long as they could. But her Alzheimer's disease made that impossible. Placed in a nursing home near Decatur, Ill.,...

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