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• U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley Advocates Patient Safety—Gets Shouted Down on House Floor

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  If you thought U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s “ You lie! ” moment during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress was an aberration, think again.  This past weekend, as Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) dared to champion the rights of the millions of Americans killed or injured by medical malpractice in this ...
  11 hours ago

• Huff Post: Americans Suffering Enough from So-called “Tort Reform” and Don’t Need More

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  One of the more underreported, though no less important aspects of this past weekend’s Congressional  health care debate (which preceded the historic passage of the U.S. House’s health care reform bill)  was related to attempts by some seeking to “ derail ” the bill by arguing it didn’t contain ...
  15 hours ago

• Safer EMS From Safer Ambulances – A Look at Side Loaders

  
  Podcast for EMT Paramedics and EMS Students — Authority: 124
  I’ve wondered for a long time about why we still make ambulances in the same basic configuration as the old cadillac hearse style units of the 1960’s and ’70’s? Why not make a side loading ambulance to enable easier loading of the patient from whichever direction is safer for the EMTs and paramedics? McCoy ...
  2 days ago

• Resident Duty-Hour Cuts Said to Impair Surgical Education, Safet...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  Limiting surgical residents’ work hours has compromised both surgical education and patient safety, according to an analysis concluding that the 80-hour work week in the U.S. isn’t enough.
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• Is Someone at Jefferson Regional Medical Center Lying About EHR ...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  This curious story appeared about apparent clinician health IT safety concerns at Jefferson Regional Medical Center near Pittsburgh: Switch to electronic records alarms Jefferson Regional physicians By Walter F. Roche Jr. PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, October 30, 2009 read more
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• “Loser Pays” is a Medical Malpractice Loser

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  Add yet another awful idea to the growing list of anti-patient rights schemes being considered by Congress   as part of the larger health care reform debate.  U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)  and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) have introduced so-called “loser pays” (a.k.a. “English Rule”) legislation ...
  4 days ago

• Hospital Fined and Under Surveillance Due to Increased Incidence of Wrong-Site Surgery

  
  Nursing Show Podcast for RN (Registered Nurse) and Student Nurses — Authority: 423
  The largest hospital in Rhode Island has been fined with $150,000 after its fifth case of wrong-site surgery since 2007. Prior to the latest fine, the same hospital has been fined $50,000 in the past for three cases of brain surgeons operating on the wrong parts of the heads of three patients. In the latest incident, ...
  6 days ago

• Hospital Fined and Under Surveillance Due to Increased Incidence of Wrong-Site Surgery

  
  Nursing Show Podcast for RN (Registered Nurse) and Student Nurses — Authority: 423
  The largest hospital in Rhode Island has been fined with $150,000 after its fifth case of wrong-site surgery since 2007. Prior to the latest fine, the same hospital has been fined $50,000 in the past for three cases of brain surgeons operating on the wrong parts of the heads of three patients. In the latest incident, ...
  6 days ago

• Medical Malpractice at Rhode Island Hospital x 5 = Bad Patient Safety

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the nation , but they’ve proven (yet again) to be just as capable of subjecting unsuspecting patients to preventable medical errors as the big kids.  In the fifth case of wrong-site surgery since 2007, Rhode Island Hospital (the state’s largest) performed two ...
  6 days ago

• Don’t Cry for Me AstraZeneca

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  AstraZeneca has now joined the ranks of drugs companies that admit to trying to cash in on popular drugs by promoting their off label use, hurting lots of people in the meantime.  According to its recently released third-quarter earnings report , AstraZeneca agreed to settle “two federal investigations and two ...
  1 week ago

• Commercial Appeal Writes About Medical Malpractice Litigation

  
  Day On Torts — Authority: 426
  The Commercial Appeal wrote an interesting story on medical malpractice litigation in todays paper.  Read it here . An excerpt: Nationwide, the number of payments physicians made for malpractice claims fell to 11,037 last year -- the lowest figure since the National Practitioner Data Bank began tracking data in ...
  1 week ago

• H1N1 Swine Flu Rears It’s Ugly Head – Time for Help and Truth

  
  Every Patient's Advocate — Authority: 98
  There’s so little I can say about swine flu that hasn’t already been said.  And to that point, I’ve already said plenty! In fact, I’ve said it all on my About.com Guide to Patient Empowerment, so I figure it’s best just to give you a master list of all the articles I’ve written, by topic: H1N1 Swine ...
  1 week ago

• Whistleblower Suit Reveals Johnson & Johnson Reps Sold Risperdal for “Unapproved Uses”

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  Up for a “profits over patient safety” story?  Good, because a pretty disturbing trial got under way in New Jersey yesterday involving a former sales rep for Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceutica unit who says she was fired after complaining about pressure to illegally sell one of the company’s ...
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• What (if anything) can the recent Sidekick problem teach us?

  
  Medical Connectivity — Authority: 106
  On October 12 the NY Times headline read “Some Users May Lose Data On a T-Mobile Smartphone”. Those phones use software and support from Microsoft/Danger for their data applications. According to the article a “technical glitch” had resulted in customers losing personal information held on at least in part an ...
  1 week ago

• Safety monitoring programme up and running for swine flu vaccines

  
  NPCi blog — Authority: 118
  27 October 2009 The MHRA has established a safety monitoring programme for swine flu vaccines to capture, evaluate, and monitor suspected adverse drug reactions. Action Members of the public and healthcare professionals should report any suspected adverse reactions to pandemic swine flu vaccines (Celvapan▼ ...
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• Now that John Stossel’s Gone, 20/20 Reports on Patient Safety

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  Since John Stossel has gone over to Fox Business News where he should be more at home, we’re happy to see 20/20 focusing on some better stories – like tonight’s piece on actress Alicia Cole (pictured).  Alicia went to the hospital to undergo a routine gynecological procedure and ended up getting a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patient Safety Advocate, Sorrel King, Tells Her Emotional Story to HCFA

  
  A Healthy Blog — Authority: 133
  In just a matter of days, Sorrel King went from planning a welcome home party for her young daughter, to planning her funeral instead. But out of this tragedy, a mother has become a passionate, national patient safety advocate so no other family suffers the same kind of loss.Sorrel told her emotional story to a [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Medical Malpractice Victims and their Families Go to Washington

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  Yesterday, there was an amazing event in Washington DC with the survivors of medical malpractice - families from nine states, including many who have been catastrophically injured.  They made the trek to our nation’s capital to ask Congress to ensure that the much-needed health care bill does not strip injured ...
  2 weeks ago

• Where is Patient Safety in the Health Care Bill?

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 467
  That’s the spot on question asked by those Hearst papers reporters (the same folks responsible for the blockbuster expose’ on the epidemic of medical errors in this country, Dead by Mistake ).  The answer: nowhere! Health care legislation now before Congress takes only modest steps to address a problem that ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Medical “Do Not Use” Acronym List

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  Joint Commission Abbreviations Not UsedBy Staff Reporterswww.HealthDictionarySeries.comIn May 2005, The Joint Commission first affirmed its “do not use” list of abbreviations. The list was originally created in 2004 by The Joint Commission as part of the requirements for meeting National Patient Safety Goal ...
  3 weeks ago

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