January 12, 2018
You can read recent stories and video of a patient dumping by Baltimore Hospital here and here and here. And here is a link to a professional study: Patient Dumping: The Dark Side of Health Care in America.
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’
December 26, 2017
ProPublica: Birth Injuries Are Skyrocketing
December 22, 2017
Severe Birth Complications Are Preventable
December 13, 2017
JAMA Article On Morality In Medicine I’m for any professional literature that quotes Carl Sandburg’s poetry.
November 17, 2017
I dedicated this week to a review of medical malpractice cases. You can click here to review our web page detailing an explanation of my experience in this area of the law. After five years at the start of my career doing defense work representing hospitals and doctors, I went to work with my Father in […]
November 15, 2017
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 […]
November 14, 2017
Med Mal caps McFall down in Florida Last year’s decision overturning the compensatory damage limits in Florida Medical Malpractice Cases
Weaver v. Myers, M.D.
Lawyers are taught to be circumspect and cautious representing facts. I’m not going to do that here. Because I know better. So with apologies to old-timey practitioners, here is my reading of the Florida Supreme Court’s latest ruling saving consumers from the unrelenting pummeling of the healthcare delivery and insurance markets and their omnipresent and […]
November 9, 2017
A “hot-off-the-presses” and game changing Supreme Court Opinion: Sections of the Medical Malpractice Presuit Screening Rules Declared Unconstitutional for violating privacy rights. Defense attorneys no longer allowed to force informal presuit interviews. More to follow.