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22 Nov

Update Oppose Hr 1215 Protect Victims Rights

After a couple of false starts, H.R. 1215, the Protecting Access to Care Act is going to the House floor this week. This massive medical malpractice bill also applies to nursing homes and drug and device cases. Americ...

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22 Nov

Understaffed Medical Facilities Amplify Medical Errors

If you have ever survived a huge RIF (reduction in force) at your company you know what comes next. The surviving employees must pick up the slack and do extra work. Your company is now understaffed. Subsequently, jobs c...

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22 Nov

The Irony Of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Facts A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction today to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research because it destroys embryos, which violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment (“DWA”) included in ...

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22 Nov

The Big Picture Of Litigation

Let’s start with the presumption that someone was wronged, they rightfully want to exercise their legal rights, and you have been retained to protect their rights. Let’s even presume, as hard as it might be, that you...

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22 Nov

Take Care of Your Heart

Take care of your heart, and your heart will take care of you.  A piece by Bill Gifford in Men's Health discusses How Your Heart Can Break.  As the 17th-century British physician William Harvey noted, "Every affection ...

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22 Nov

Preventable Medical Errors Kill Americans At An Alarming Rate

There is an epidemic that is killing almost half-a-million Americas and injuring millions of others every year. This epidemic is as bad as the top two killers of Americans, cancer and heart disease (each claiming over 5...

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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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