I have had the honor to work with many medical experts and engineers responsible for developing important medical equipment, like the Hassan clamp. The Government should properly regulate the products they engineer. … although acute medical care presents myriad risks to patient safety, there is no category for devices designed to preserve that safety. Why […]
Link to the DOJ announcement below: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Opioid Manufacturer Insys Therapeutics Agrees to Enter $225 Million Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations
After a week of crisscrossing Florida over city highways and country roads (something I hadn’t done much during the pandemic), I ran across this old favorite. If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it. Cormack McCarthy, The Road
And proving it up requires experienced and skilled counsel. NFL player awarded $43.5 million in medical malpractice suit
The best way to predict the future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln, #16
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Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald
Physicians with a single paid claim are 4x as likely to have a future claim than physicians with zero paid claims. We find a similar pattern in both high-risk and lower-risk specialties. We also find no evidence that public disclosure of paid claims has any impact on these patterns — meaning there is no “blood […]
The Roman romantics “were drunk. They were naked,” Noel Lenski, now a religious studies professor at Yale University, told NPR in 2011. Young women would line up for the men to hit them, Lenski said. They believed this would make them fertile. NPR: The Dark Origins of Valentines Day
The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 raised the alarm while calling for urgent action to reduce patient harm in healthcare. The United Nations (UN) specialized agency stated that medical malpractice results in 2.6 million deaths annually. “Most of these deaths are avoidable. The personal, social and economic impact of patient harm leads to […]
