January 3, 2017
Testing to produce a certain result is as toxic in medicine as it is in education. VA Patients Put At Risk To Obtain Favorable ‘Ratings’
Testing to produce a certain result is as toxic in medicine as it is in education. VA Patients Put At Risk To Obtain Favorable ‘Ratings’
A study of how waste contributes to the cost of our health care and insurance. ProPublica: Want To Lower Healthcare Costs?
Things Every Hospital Patient Needs To Know
The Cost Of Assuming Your Doctor Knows Best “The National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), came out with a report on diagnostic error in 2015 identifying diagnostic error as the most harmful and most expensive of medical errors. It is estimated that between 40,000 to 80,000 deaths occur in the U.S. from diagnostic error […]
Visit our website to learn more about our experience handling claims against the Government and Municipal Hospitals, including claims bills approving payments well beyond sovereign immunity limits. Lost Victims Injured by Government and Municipal Entities
A peer reviewed survey of nurses rating hospital quality of care around the world. BMJ: Patient Safety, Satisfaction and Quality of Care
A hospital crisis in rural America. Ground Zero
Florida Pediatric Nurses Who Call Babies “Mini-Satans” – Yes or No? WaPo: Naval Hospital Nurses Mishandling “mini-Satan” infants
Evanston Insurance Company tries to avoid indemnity for South Carolina Nursing Home employing fake physican. #QualityFraud Evanston-Summary-Judgment-Order.pd
Few Outcome Measures Meet Criteria for Assessing Accuracy and Validity, According to Two Joint Commission Executives I blog about deaths from negligence and medical error being under reported. I also blog about Joint Commission procedures and the secrecy of peer review proceedings. Maybe the authorities are beginning to come around to my way of thinking.