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• Sarah Palin: Levi Welcome at Thanksgiving Table; Johnston Declines - ParentDish

  
  A Good Choice . . . — Authority: 133
  Sarah Palin: Levi Welcome at Thanksgiving Table; Johnston Declines - ParentDish The leftist media is incapable of understanding forgiveness. What a kind gesture on the part of Governor Palin. It will be mocked by the hateful, left-wings, Soetoro/Obama-Pelosi-Reid loving media . . . They will do anything to taint ...
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• American Pravda Keeps Going After Palin

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  After botching initial coverage of Governor Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life , and having one of their mistakes regarding a legal bill go viral.  They keep at it.  Today there is blatant editorializing in their article that was up at the Anchorage Daily News site : NEW YORK — Sarah ...
  18 hours ago

• Manipulating Media Puts on Blinders re: Texas Massacre

  
  A Good Choice . . . — Authority: 133
  Cartoon by William Warren as found at NetRightNation.com blog 11/12/09
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• Baby in China Dies While Doctor Plays Online Game

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 613
  In Nanjing, a 5-month-old baby has died due to a doctor’s prioritizing online games over his hospital duties. From Associated Press : A 5-month-old baby died in a hospital amid pleas for help from his parents while his doctor played video games online in eastern China, health authorities said Friday. An ...
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• Are We Headed Toward Bankruptcy?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  This is Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt: As Post health reporter Ceci Connolly explained in a front-page story last week, the House bill also does not do much to lower costs . It includes some valuable pilot programs. But it doesn’t end the tax break for employer-provided insurance, a break ...
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• Fatal Hospital Bed Fall Leads to Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Illinois

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 554
  A woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Illinois against a hospital, alleging that the facility is liable for allowing her mother to fall out of a hospital bed and suffer fatal injuries. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed October 22 in Madison County Circuit Court of Illinois by Roberta Cruthis, ...
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• Assignment of a Legal Malpractice Claim in the 2d Circuit

  
  New York Attorney Malpractice Blog — Authority: 422
  Corporate clients assign causes of action between themselves on a fairly regular basis.  Often, for purely economic reasons, in mergers, and in other corporate maneuverings, a cause of action will become one of many assets to be exchanged.  Here, in NEW FALLS CORP .,  v. EDWARD N. LERNER ,No. ...
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• Will The Right To Sue Bad Doctors Survive Health Care Reform?

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  from Down With Tyranny The video ( at this link ) tells the story of Merlyna Adams– a school principal from Louisiana who sought treatment for a kidney stone. After a month of botched treatment, her body developed sepsis, a complication caused by infection. She suffered congestive heart failure, renal failure ...
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• Dartmouth Atlas and Physician Supply - No Relation to "Tort Reform"

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  First it was the GAO .  Then the Bureau of Economic Research .  The Cincinnati Enquirer .  The Texas Observer .  What are we talking about?  Clear evidence by any credible benchmark that there is no link between state “tort reform” laws and where doctors decide to practice. So we can’t say we were ...
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• Meghan McCain’s Latest: Too Stupid Not to Comment Upon

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 704
  -By Warner Todd Huston Just hearing her name causes me pain and normally I wouldn’t waste a minute’s time worrying about what this vacuous little child has to say on much of anything — as is evidenced by the fact that this is the first time my keyboard has shuddered out her name. However, Meghan McCain’s ...
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• Eleven National Consumer Organizations Oppose Medical Malpractice Limits

  
  Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog — Authority: 131
  Eleven national consumer and public interest groups whose memberships represent many millions of Americans sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging rejection of any amendments or substitutes to the health care bill that would limit the legal rights of patients injured by medical malpractice . These groups ...
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• Will video cameras in the OR decrease the rate of wrong-site surgery?

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 604
  "> "> by Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today Staff Writer Rhode Island Hospital, located in Providence, will pay $150,000 and install video cameras in all of its operating rooms after performing its fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007, according to the state’s Department of Health. The hospital will also ...
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• The Fort Hood murderer mess just gets better

  
  Irons in the Fire — Authority: 445
  and better. "Put it this way," says one official familiar with the conversations that took place. "Everybody felt that if you were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, you would not want Nidal Hasan in your foxhole." ... One official involved in the conversations had reportedly told colleagues that he worried that ...
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• >>Pelosi Health-Care Bill Lacks Malpractice Reform – WSJ.com

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 440
  Pelosi Health-Care Bill Lacks Malpractice Reform – WSJ.com You and I pay for frivolous law suits every time we walk into a doctors office.  We also pay for expensive tests that the doctor knows he doesn’t need to treat us but he orders anyhow just in case  he is sued  so he can show that everything possible ...
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• Pittsburgh Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Results in $2.3M Verdict

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 554
  A woman from the Pittsburgh metro area has been awarded $2.3 million award in a medical malpractice lawsuit that was against at local hospital for failing to diagnose an infection . The Pennsylvania malpractice lawsuit was filed by Vita Monestersky against Uniontown Hospital in the U.S. District Court of the ...
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• Pelosi Health Bill Has ‘Buried Tort Bomb’ Discouraging Damages Caps

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 679
  Buried in a health bill sponsored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a provision that discourages caps on damages and attorney fees. The bill says states with such caps can’t qualify for incentive payments to develop alternative medical liability laws, the Wall Street Journal reports in an editorial that criticizes ...
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• The Other Reason Why Medical Malpractice Reform Is Critical

  
  Better Health — Authority: 595
  There hasn’t been much discussion about serious tort reform in the current healthcare reform debate. That’s probably because most policy experts don’t believe it will make a significant dent in healthcare costs. I happen to believe that tort reform would be a huge boon for healthcare (just ask Ob/Gyns in Texas) ...
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• The decision not to test is often the more difficult choice

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 604
  "> "> Ordering that head CT scan is the easy way out. In a piece from Newsweek (via Bryan Vartabedian ), Yale emergency physician Christopher Moore details a common scenario: should he order a CT scan in an asymptomatic 15-year old who was hit in the back of the head while playing soccer? Dr. Moore ...
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• Liens, Settlements and Legal Malpractice

  
  New York Attorney Malpractice Blog — Authority: 422
  Yesterday we discussed medical treatment liens and when an attorney might become liable to pay them, even though the attorney did not deduct from the settlement proceeds when making the distribution. Today, Joel Stashenko in the NYLJ reports passage of a bill to eliminate "double dipping" by public employees in ...
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• How To Find a Brain Injury Attorney With Experience in Birth Injuries

  
  Save James — Authority: 154
  This article is about finding a birth injury attorney to file a lawsuit to obtain compensation for brain damage that resulted from an injury to your child. This injury will have occurred sometime between the onset of labor and shortly after birth. The cut off point for classification of an injury as a birth injury ...
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