Posts tagged healthcare

• Why Link Medical Malpractice Reform With Healthcare Reform? Does not make sense.

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | October 01, 2009 9:20 AM | 5 CommentsMiami, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  For the past few months, the one public policy that has been on every American's mind is health care reform. It seems like everyone has their own, unique opinion on the state of our country's health...

• Number of Yaz and Yasmin Lawsuits Growing

  Eddie Farah | November 13, 2009 7:10 PM | 3 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In 2007, Susan Galinis of San Francisco was the happy mother of 3-year-old twins, until doctors put her on the Yaz birth control pill. Four weeks and one day later she suffered a...

• Americans should look at Insurance Reform Before Espousing Tort Reform

  Gabrielle D'Alemberte | October 21, 2009 4:39 PM | 1 CommentMiami, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There is a lot of energy about the various Health Care Bills that are being prepared and proposed by Congress. One issue on lots of minds is tort reform. Some elected officials are for tort reform,...

• Dragons, Tort Reform and Other Myths

  John Hopkins | October 20, 2009 10:47 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I am not just picking on Jay Hancock at the Baltimore Sun and his comments about tort reform. Actually, Mr. Hancock’s comments, although containing the typical unsubstantiated statements that...

• "Patients for Fair Compensation" -- Who Do They Really Care About?

  John Hopkins | December 16, 2011 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It’s the newest fad. Form a group. Name the group something that sounds very, very consumer friendly. Draft a message that sounds like the group is out to protect consumers and regular...

• Florida Hospital’s Sudden Departure of Three Surgeons May Harm Transplant Patients

  Ed Normand | August 30, 2011 1:10 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Shands Healthcare at the University of Florida has suspended its liver and pancreas transplant programs after its four organ transplant surgeons suddenly departed from the hospital. The transplant...

• A Closer Look at Gadolinium-Related Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF) also known as Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy (NFD)

  Armand Rossetti | November 10, 2008 9:28 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Introduction: For example, the Prohance brand of Gadolinium is more stable than and clears more completely than the Omniscan brand of Gadolinium. This difference in stability is due to the...