Medical Malpractice

• Study Shows Doctors Often Distort the Truth with Patients

  John Lowery | February 10, 2012 11:08 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  A study discussed in Friday's Tennessean shows that many physicians withhold the truth from patients to avoid being held accountable through a lawsuit: More than half admitted describing...

• What Constitutes Medical Malpractice?

  Council Wooten | February 09, 2012 9:31 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Medical malpractice is defined as a health care worker or provider failing to render proper care with accepted medical techniques or principles. This is a vague definition and is open to...

• Allergan stops selling Lap-Band to 1-800-GET-THIN doctors

  Paul Napoli | February 08, 2012 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Allergan Inc., maker of the Lap-Band Adjustable Gastric Banding System, has announced it will no longer sell the weight loss device to troubled California surgical centers affiliated with the...

• Friday's Legal & Safety News Roundup: Feburary 3, 2012

  Brett Emison | February 03, 2012 5:14 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO

  Legal & safety news from around the internet that caught my attention this week: The Demi Moore 911 Call: A Breach of Medical Confidentiality? [Daniel Solove at Concurring...

• The Only Real "Medical Malpractice Reform" Is Prevention

  Andrew Cochran | January 30, 2012 5:53 PM | 3 CommentsVoices

  There's a great article in The Washingtonian magazine today titled, Minor Mistakes, Deadly Results, about the thousands of deadly medical errors occurring annually and the measures...

• A Harsh Reality: HR 5 Will Restrict Your Rights

  Mark Bello | January 30, 2012 12:02 PM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI

  The HR 5 bill, known as the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act, aims to take away the legal rights of injured patients, remove any incentives to improve patient...

• Medication Error In Allentown Causes Tragic Death

  Gregory Spizer | January 30, 2012 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Pennsylvania, PA

  On Friday, the Allentown Morning Call addressed a Pennsylvania Department of Health report which indicated that on three separate occasions in 2010 and 2011, nurses at St. Luke's Hospital in...

• Gall Bladder "Misadventures"

  John F. McCormick Jr. | January 30, 2012 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsTulsa, OK

  Gall bladder removal (“cholecystectomy”) is one of the more common surgeries in the U.S. One estimate places the number of these procedures in excess of 750,000 annually in the...

• When Clarence Thomas & John Roberts Defended The 7th Amendment

  Andrew Cochran | January 30, 2012 8:12 AM | 0 CommentsVoices

  The Seventh Amendment provides that [i]n Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved... Accordingly, we...

• Boston Dentist Used Paperclips in Patients' Mouths for Root Canals

  David Mittleman | January 27, 2012 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A Boston area dentist recently pled guilty to defrauding Medicare for $130,000 between August 23, 2003 and June 2005. He also pled guilty to assault and battery of his patients after...