If you follow the Department of Justice alerts, you know that the Feds recover hundreds of millions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse in our health insurance system every year. Why is this considered acceptable? #QualityFraud Ex-CEO of medical imaging companies sentenced to prison in $250 million fraud scheme
Here’s the story: Miami Bascom Palmer surgical table collapse is an ordinary negligence claim per judge, not subject to medical malpractice rules The test for whether a claim is “medical malpractice” boils down to the use of professional judgment. If the medical or nursing error involves the use or failure to use good professional judgment […]
Let’s turn to Twitter to see how the legal people are responding to the news. The Breyer Nomination Scramble On Twitter
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so quietly? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, til the summer comes again. Lewis Carroll
Wisdon comes with winters. Oscar Wilde A recently filed West Virginia case presents a common issue in medical malpractice cases. The human and economic costs of injuries pile up when radiology films are not properly read. The purpose of radiology tests like MRI’s is to correlate clinical signs and symptoms to findings on films. Underlying […]
Ye ugly, creepin, blastit wonner, Detested, shunn’d by saunt an’ sinner, How daur ye set your fit upon her- Sae fine a lady? Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner On some poor body. History of Burns Supper
“The human mind always makes progress, but it is progress in spirals.” Madame de Stael A radiologist was recently called out of town on a trip that required more driving than he was used to lately. Between his tele-radiology readings at home and the pandemic restrictions, he found that he wasn’t used to travel and […]
This opinion piece in a local Florida paper is a decent summary of the pitfalls created by Florida’s legislature to keep victims of medical malpractice out of court. Please take care hiring a lawyer to investigate your serious medical malpractice claim. Medical malpractice cases are some of the most expensive and difficult to take through […]
Judges are people too. Sometimes they have trouble rising above that fact. Link to story on SCOTUS acrimony.
We Know the Real Cause of the Crisis in Our Hospitals. It’s Greed.
