NPR and other media teamed up with ProPublica in an investigation of drug company payments to doctors. NPR ran a story yesterday, citing the ProPublica report.

Here’s a link to the list of payments going to doctors in Hawaii, according to the database compiled by ProPublica.

Complaints against several of the Hawaii doctors are listed in the state’s Business and Licensee Complaints Database alleging “failure to comply with laws relating to work performance.” Almost all were dismissed due to “insufficient evidence.”

One physician who received only a small payment has a pending complaint for “failure to comply with laws governing professional conduct.”

Another physician who received over $5,000 from drug companies had three complaints in recent years, one resolved and two dropped for insufficient evidence.

The Hawaii doctor listed as receiving the largest fees ($28,500) from drug maker GlaxoSmithKline was the only one of the island doctors to have been fined and briefly suspended by state regulators for failing to return a patient’s medical complete records.

It’s an interesting case of a collaborative investigation and joint reporting.

If you missed last night’s PBS News Hour, you should check out this report on organized resistance to foreclosures led by a Boston organization. Good reporting and great action on the ground.

Finally, word’s been going around about 11-4-08, a film to be shown tonight at the Hawaii Film Festival.

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, I asked friends around the world to film their experiences of 11/4/08. I collected footage from over a dozen cities, from Alaska to Dubai, and edited it into a feature-length documentary. What emerges is a portrait of how people choose to live through history. Check out the trailer.

The filmmaker says it will soon be available via NetFlix.