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22 Nov

Prescription Opioids Present Medical Malpractice Risk

Prescription Opioids and Opioid Malpractice The use of pain medication in the U.S. is alarming–doctors write 71 opioid prescriptions per 100 people.  In 2015, drug overdoses accounted for 52,404 deaths in the United ...

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22 Nov

Tort Reform: Physician Insurance Companies Peddle False Narratives

Physician Insurance Companies, Health Care Entities, and Medical Professionals Peddle False Narratives to Create Tort Reform The Washington Post reported today that lobbyists for doctors and their insurers met regular...

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22 Nov

Oppose Hr 1215 Protect Victims Rights

Oppose HR 1215 and Protect Victims’ Rights – UPDATE The American Bar Association, with more than 400,000 members, penned a letter to the House Judiciary Committee expressing opposition to HR 1215–the so-called ...

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22 Nov

Medical Malpractice Victims Continue To Be Victimized

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would victimize medical malpractice victims and protect the health care providers who injured them. If there is a silver lining in all this, it might be that H.R. 1215...

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22 Nov

Medical Malpractice Trials Are Not Easy

People hear about medical malpractice trials where a jury awarded large sums of money, like this Arizona family. Some of these cases are sensationalized, and the reports tend to focus on the facts of the case. As they sh...

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22 Nov

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Not the Problem

People need to be aware that medical malpractice lawsuits are not the problem with our health care system.  The problem is careless doctors and the system that protects them.  Prior posts have touched on different aspe...

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22 Nov

Medical Malpractice Case Review Failure Follow

Understand medical malpractice cases by looking at the facts. This will be my first post that looks at potential explanations for preventable errors. I say potential explanations because rarely, if ever, do we know why...

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22 Nov

Medical Malpractice Case Review Bad Assumptions

Medical malpractice case review features various causes of malpractice. Operating on the wrong extremity. Leaving a piece of equipment inside a patient after surgery. Failing to diagnose an illness. These are among the m...

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22 Nov

Medical Malpractice Case Review – Multiple Biases

Understand medical malpractice cases by looking at the facts. Case Review A 65-year-old woman presented to her PCP with nausea, fever, and a dark area in the visual field of her right eye. The PCP performed a physical ...

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22 Nov

What is Medical Negligence?

Medical negligence, also called medical malpractice, is an epidemic in the U.S.  Preventable medical errors kill more than 400,000 people per year.  That means, every day, 1,100 people have their lives cut short by med...

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22 Nov

Hospital Execs Alleged Manipulations Increase Health Care Costs

Hospital Execs Alleged Manipulations Increase Health Care Costs Health care costs increase for several reasons: inflation, research and development, increased salaries for doctors and nurses, the need for insurance com...

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22 Nov

Pushing For Transparency From Health Care Providers

Transparency in Health Care Can Only Increase Patient Safety We can fight against medical malpractice with data if the law requires hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, and doctors to be more transparent. This is not...

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22 Nov

Birth Injury Verdict Further Screws Child

MLive, an online Michigan news site, reported on a 2020 birth injury verdict in a birth trauma case. The Michigan jury awarded $13 million to the parents of a baby girl who was left with limited use of her right arm foll...

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22 Nov

Bill to Eliminate Patient Safety Passes House – Time to Notify Senate to Vote NO on HR 1215

Gage Mathers has always fought for patient safety and patient rights. If the Bill passed by the House is approved in the Senate, your patient safety rights and ability to sue for medical negligence may be severely limite...

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22 Nov

2020 Firm Update

2020 Firm Update There have been many changes to Joe’s legal practice. After joining Gage Mathers, he expanded the scope of his practice so the focus was no longer limited to medical malpractice. This has allowed Gage...

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