Today’s Word: Eucatastrophe
A sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story.
Enjoy Your Weekend!
Waking up this morning I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours before me. I vow to live fully each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. Thích Nhất Hạnh
Today’s Quote
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
“First, Kill All The Lawyers.”
In Billy Shakespeare’s play King Henry VI, Part II, this advice is used as an example of how to destabilize an entire country. And so it goes … Belarusian Lawyer Who Advised Imprisoned Activists Goes On Trial Our Constitution protects the right to jury trials and access to competent counsel. Fight any and all efforts […]
Happy Short Story Month!
Short Story Month is a month dedicated to the short story form. It is celebrated by readers and authors alike: the former set out to read as many short stories as possible, while the latter typically set a goal for how many short stories they’ll write. The overachievers often write a short story per day. […]
Federal Preeemption: The Cost-Effective Way For Special Interests To Lock You Out of Court
The 11th Circuit (Atlanta) just created conflict with other jurisdictions in ruling that federal law “preempts” or blows up negligence claims against brokers. Preemption is the legal rationale that courts use to block victims of torts from suing rental car companies and other large corporate interests that successfully lobby Congress for special protection. In Aspen Amer., […]
$8.5M Med Mal Verdict For Death After Routine Knee Surgery
A jury has awarded $8.5 million to the wife and estate of a patient who died after a routine knee-replacement surgery at a private surgical practice based in Glastonbury. In many cases, anesthesia is the culprit in such shocking outcomes but in this case it was the failure to detect and treat a fatal blood […]
Today’s Quote
Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy. John Hoeven, U.S. senator
OR ‘black boxes’: How hospitals are borrowing from airplane technology
Whenever I read an operative report in a surgery gone bad, I wonder about the accuracy of the surgeon’s descriptions. Sometimes, the outcome and physical evidence make the descriptions untenable. We may be on the verge of something closer to a true, contemporaneous account of every surgery. The OR Black Box system, which was developed […]
Quality Fraud and Patient Safety
Doctors who prescribe to people they’ve never met and care they never give. These claims go back to a Civil War era law designed to prevent the Government from being overcharged for military supplies. Now, the DOJ brings in billions of dollars every year for healthcare fraud. Here’s the link Physicians facing prison, fines, for […]