Posts tagged lawsuit abuse

• Doctors Starting Salaries - Do We Really Feel Sorry For People Who Make This Much?

  Wayne Parsons | July 08, 2009 12:43 PM | 20 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In the “Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2007 Report Based on 2006 Data,” conducted in collaboration with the National Association of Physician Recruiters, found that...

• The Public Deserves The Truth About Lawsuit Abuse and Medical Malpractice

  Wayne Parsons | June 24, 2009 3:00 PM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Facts are Stubborn things Does saying something is a fact make it one? From the context of this essay supporting tort reform, Dr. Russell Turk appears to believe so. In his essay, Dr. Turk makes...

• Mistakes Made in Medical Care are the Top Cause of Accidental Death in America.

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2009 10:53 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Let me start with the facts. 98,000 Americans die from preventable medical errors each year! 99,000 Americans die from preventable hospital acquired infections each year! The cat is out of...

• Tort Reform Shows the Connection Between Big Insurance and the Republican Party

  Wayne Parsons | August 26, 2009 2:54 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Do you love your insurance company? I'm not talking about the friendly Agent who sold you the policy and sends you a pocket calendar on your birthday each year. I love my agent. He is a great guy....

• Insurance Companies Are The Problem With Our Health Care System - We Must Have Single Payer

  Wayne Parsons | July 06, 2009 1:50 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In an article written by doctors, the myth of lawsuit abuse as being the cause of the cost of health care is once again debunked. In Fact and Fiction: Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System, by...

• Death Or Injury From Misdiagnosis Stories

  Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 2:28 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I have written about the news story that is shaking the country: DEAD BY MISTAKE. Kudos to Hearst News for telling the truth to the public! Here are the stories behind DEAD BY MISTAKE. Mother...

• Suit says hospital staff wrongly declared infant dead

  Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 2:38 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The news story is pretty frightening. Incompetence comes to mind. The staff at a Charleston, South Carolina hospital informed them the parents of a baby born that the child died. Can you...

• Lawsuit Abuse? Medical Malpractice Crisis? Shame on Doctors and the AMA!

  Wayne Parsons | July 06, 2009 2:33 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Headline news: Medical Malpractice Payments Fall to Record Low, Public Citizen Study Shows: Medical malpractice payments were at or near record lows in 2008, but the decline almost...

• House lawmakers hear debate over medical device preemption.

  Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 2:40 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  CQ HealthBeat (5/14, Kim) reports that the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee heard witness testimony on a measure that would allow consumers to sue companies under state law...

• Obama Adminstration Makes The Devil's Deal With The Insurance Industry

  Wayne Parsons | May 14, 2009 2:47 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In her recent article: Revived Focus on Health Care, Revival of Tort “Reform” Rhetoric Kia Franklin shines a light on the willingness of President Obama to shed his lofty campaign...