“The American Medical Association’s president, Jesse Ehrenfeld, recently called the physician shortage a “public health crisis.””

Here is the link to the story in Kaiser.

More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System

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“We understand the burden that in-camera inspections put on busy trial judges,” the panel said. “Nevertheless, that burden may be necessary to protect privacy rights.”

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The Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision not to reinstate a nearly $31 million jury award against a bar that served alcohol to an underage person who later crashed into a pedestrian was the right call, experts said, and provided much needed clarity on the state’s dram shop statute.

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The establishment in question is a Tallahassee watering hole near the FSU campus frequented by students. Its owner is a locally well-known donor to conservative legislators and the University. If you ignore this and blithely chalk the result up to unidentified “experts” cheering, you’ve done a grave disservice to the plaintiff, the plaintiff’s lawyer, and especially the jury. What a monumental waste of time and resources.

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When I entered the classroom each new school year, I became responsible for teaching a group of strangers who may not have wanted to be there, about a subject that they may not have wanted to learn and were largely ill-equipped to understand. This easily could be considered the job description of a trial attorney.

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Under the law, punitive damages cannot be levied against a defendant if they’d already been hit with punitive damages for the same conduct, provided the court determines they have already been punished enough, according to the opinion. Sommers had argued the court was wrong not to make this determination, the panel said.

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You can read about my experience litigating punitive damages here.

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According to the lawsuit, Morton-Maxson had a family history of bladder cancer and doctors noted the growth was “likely cancer.” But UW “lost the surgically removed tumor prior to conducting the requisite pathological review and left plaintiff without a clear diagnostic or care plan,” the complaint stated.

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“The misconduct of Appellant’s counsel has resulted in unnecessary expense to his client and to Appellee, a waste of judicial resources, and inconvenience to the jurors who took four days out of their lives listening to evidence and rendering a verdict, given that the case must be retried before a new jury,” the panel said Friday. “Such conduct cannot be condoned.”

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Apparently, they need the case more than they fear the repercussions, as they are fighting this on appeal (on their client’s dime).

“Specifically, although Mr. Chiocca had briefly represented the plaintiff with respect to the 2015 motor vehicle accident, the instant lawsuit is related to a wholly separate, unrelated motor vehicle accident, with different factual circumstances,” the response said. “Although the plaintiff made prior complaints which may be relevant to the defense of this matter, the relevancy does not make the matters ‘substantially similar’ within the meaning of [professional conduct rules] such that Cole Scott & Kissane PA, a firm with more than 600 attorneys statewide, should be disqualified from representing the instant defendants.”

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The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

In his groundbreaking 1952 book “Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison introduces an unnamed African American narrator who relates his story from a basement-dwelling lit with 1,369 light bulbs. This room filled with light represents the man’s choice to see his life more clearly and to seek truth through enlightenment. Although “Invisible Man” was Ellison’s only novel published in his lifetime, more manuscripts were discovered in the award-winning author’s home after he died in 1994. This discovery resulted in the posthumous publication of a second novel, 1999’s “Juneteenth.” Even today, Ellison’s work continues to point us toward finding our truth from a place of quietly defiant illumination.

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