Medical Malpractice

• New Proposal to Limit Medmal Awards Neither "Free-Market Alternative" Nor Constitutional

  Andrew Cochran | January 26, 2012 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsVoices

  The chairman of the top health subcommittee in the House, Rep. Joe Pitts, announced this week that the House GOP would offer a replace Obamacare bill that be a free-market alternative. But he...

• Tort Reformers Approve of Protecting Property, But Not Life & Limb

  Andrew Cochran | January 25, 2012 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsVoices

  Lawmakers who voted last year for an unconstitutional bill to crush states' and individual rights, by sharply limiting medical malpractice lawsuits, did a 180-degree turn on Tuesday,...

• Birds of a Feather: Why Tennessee Doctors Stick Together in Malpractice Cases

  John Lowery | January 22, 2012 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  In medical malpractice litigation we often see a phenomenon where doctors stick together and seem to defy logic in the way they swear under oath that sometimes deadly mistakes aren’t...

• St Cloud Hospital Again Sees A Reduction In Adverse Medical Events In 2011

  Mike Bryant | January 22, 2012 9:53 AM | 0 CommentsSt. Cloud, MN

  The Minnesota adverse medical reports are out and there was an increase of 11 events in 2011 from 2010. A total of 316 time, serious preventable hospital errors took place. Locally, St Cloud...

• Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Again At State Tort Reform Law

  Andrew Cochran | January 21, 2012 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsVoices

  On Thursday, the Arkansas Supreme Court voiced its support for the unalienable right to a civil jury trial by striking down a section of the state tort reform law. In the medical malpractice case...

• Only 20% of Medical Mistakes are Reported Per U.S. Dept of Health

  Lindsay Rakers | January 19, 2012 4:13 PM | 20 CommentsSt. Louis, MO

  Most doctors and nurses (and other medical professionals) are trustworthy, honest, and good at their jobs. I personally love and completely trust all of my doctors and the doctors and medical...

• Which Newt Gingrich Is Running For President?

  Andrew Cochran | January 19, 2012 2:48 PM | 2 CommentsVoices

  In August, I asked here whether we would see Presidential candidate Rick Perry as the hardcore states' rights advocate, or Rick Perry the hardcore advocate of limiting the 7th Amendment right...

• Dialysis Dangers – A Dislodged Needle Can Quickly Turn Fatal

  Mike Ferrara | January 19, 2012 1:21 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ

  For patients on dialysis in the United States, the numbers are not reassuring. About 1 in 5 dialysis patients die every year in this country, and many of these deaths are preventable....

• GOP Presidential Candidates Discuss Tort Reform

  Andrew Cochran | January 19, 2012 8:42 AM | 0 CommentsVoices

  This is the way our Constitution disappears. It's nibbled away. That was how GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul described the impact of federal tort reform law, in the face...

• CNN Finds Medical Residents Cheating on Radiology Board Certification Exams

  David Mittleman | January 16, 2012 10:22 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI

  A recent CNN investigation uncovered an alarming trend--doctors cheating on their board certification exams. According to CNN reporters, doctors taking a test to become board certified in...