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• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
  6 days ago

• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
  1 week ago

• Tort Cases Pending Before the Tennessee Supreme Court - Physician Assistants

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 425
  There are a significant number of cases of interest to Tennessee tort lawyers pending before the Tennessee Supreme Court.  One of those cases is Cox v. M.A. Primary and Urgent Care Clinic , 2009 WL 230242 (Tenn. Ct. App. 230242 (Jan. 30, 2009).  The issue in the case is the appropriate standard of care for a ...
  1 week ago

• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
  1 week ago

• Rhode Island Hospital Cannot Get It Right

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 425
  You know that patient safety is not a priority in a hospital when your state regulatory agency orders that cameras be installed in your operating rooms. Rhode Island Hospital has had five wrong-site surgeries since 2007.   Here is how the AP described the last incident: The latest incident last month involved a ...
  1 week ago

• Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  As a result of a hacker attack, this Post from 2/16/09 was deleted. I am now restoring it at the request of a recent new reader who liked Part I and wondered why there was no Part II. While we have been playing “doctor,” our patient has been getting worse. Previously in Part I, we learned that the patient ...
  2 weeks ago

• A 34th Amendment Solves Healthcare.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that we can all – repeat all – support, except our so-called Representatives in Congress. At a campaign rally in 1979, Ronald Reagan quipped that we could easily improve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Facts Confirm New York Medical Malpractice Takes Heavy Toll

  
  New York Accident Lawyer | New York Malpractice Attorney | NY Injury Lawyer — Authority: 117
  The Institute of Medicine , a non-profit and non-partisan watchdog group, reports that 98,000 people die in the United States each year as a result of medical malpractice . That converts to an average of 268 people dying daily. Can you imagine the news coverage if, every single day , a preventable disaster – a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lawsuit Against Pharmacists For Filling Prescriptions for Known Drug Abuser

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 425
  On the afternoon of June 4, 2004, a woman named Patricia Copening driving a SUV ran  into a delivery-van driver who had pulled over to repair a flat tire on the highway’s shoulder, killing him at the scene. She also hit another man, causing a head and other injuries. A lawsuit filed by the victims and their ...
  2 weeks ago

• ObamaCare – another fix-that-backfires

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 116
  Systems thinkers frequently use the phrase fix-that-backfires. It means a solution to a problem that makes the problem worse. ObamaCare is a perfect example. At the start of his stay in the White House, President Obama identified three critical problems in U.S. healthcare. 1) Excessive cost and healthcare’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• University of Chicago Medical Center sued for apparent failed heart transplant

  
  Chicago Bar-tender — Authority: 600
  The estate of a man who received a heart transplant at University of Chicago Medical Center is suing after the transplant failed and the man died. According to the complaint, after undergoing a heart transplant in 2005, Clyde Rogers was admitted to U of C for cardiac abrnormalities in September 2007.  While waiting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Andhra Government vows to take action in eye camp blinding incident

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Hyderabad/Nellore/Chennai (Andhra Pradesh/Tamil Nadu), Oct.26 (ANI): The Andhra Pradesh Government on Monday said that it has launched an inquiry into the shocking incident in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, where ten people lost their vision in a free eye camp conducted by the Bollineni Eye Hospital and research centre. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Headache doctor blamed for suicide

  
  Chicago Bar-tender — Authority: 600
  The estate of a young woman who committed suicide is suing a doctor who treated her for chronic headaches. According to the complaint, Hilary Waltmire, a minor, was treated for severe and chronic headaches by Dr. Merle Diamond from April 2007 through the date of Hilarys suicide in October 2007.  The complaint ...
  3 weeks ago

• Board Certification in Medical Malpractice

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 425
  A couple of months ago I filed an application  with the American  Board of Professional Liability Attorneys  seeking  board certification in medical malpractice cases.  I have been board certified as a civil trial specialist for over 15 years.   In fact, several years ago I served as President of the National ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Medical Malpractice Filing Numbers

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 425
  Every day, more than  5 Tennesseans die as a result of medical malpractice. How do I know such a thing?  Simple math.  The Institute of Medicine has reported that 98,000 people a year die from medical malpractice.  Think about it:  the death rate from medical malpractice  is the equivalent of a large commercial ...
  4 weeks ago

• Paul Luvera on Losing Cases

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 425
  Washington States outstanding plaintiffs lawyer offers great advice to those of us who have lost jury trials.  A sample from " First Aid for Lawyers When They Lose Their Case :" When trial lawyers who are passionate about their client’s cause lose the case, their pain for the loss of their client is palpable. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Strong Family Advocate Saves Life, But Kills Malpractice Case

  
  New York Accident Lawyer | New York Malpractice Attorney | NY Injury Lawyer — Authority: 117
  I recently received a letter seeking my professional opinion on the merit of a malpractice case against a local hospital, the Corning Hospital, in Corning, NY. Without intruding on the privacy of the letter writer, I do want to share some of the details and my reply, because I believe the reasoning behind my answer ...
  8 weeks ago

• Discover What Kinds Of Lawyers Offer Their Services

  
  Political Ground Zero — Authority: 143
  The legal system is a very extensive subject and there are many different types of lawyers which do very different jobs. Of course, all with regards to the law, there are many different things that you may want to hire their services for. This article serves to introduce you to some of the basic services and the most ...
  8 weeks ago

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