Posts tagged malpractice

• 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...

• What do families need to know about the use of Topamax or Topiramate?

  Wayne Parsons | July 30, 2011 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Should women who may be or are pregant worry about the drug Topamax or the generic version Topiramate? I think so. as reported in the well respected science site MDLinx about a paper in The Journal...

• Book Review: "Critical Conditions - The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive".

  Wayne Parsons | October 28, 2008 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Martine Ehrenclou has authored a new book for patients and their loved ones that deals with going to the hospital - and getting out alive. This handbook for patients should be mandatory reading...

• Legal Case Study: Hospital Liability, Nursing Negligence - Improper Handling of Fetal Distress.

  Wayne Parsons | November 09, 2008 1:14 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In this case a woman in her 32nd week of pregnancy had a fetal monitor show that her baby was experiencing tachycardia. The patient was admitted to a hospital for several days and was administered...

• Medical Malpractice Expenditures Comprise Less Than 1 Percent Of Overall Health Costs

  Wayne Parsons | October 27, 2008 2:42 AM | 14 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  We hear a lot of propaganda from medical professionals, insurance companies and politicians who try to place the blame for America’s skyrocketing health care costs on the so-called medical...

• Tort Reform Myth: Myth: Health care costs are rising and doctors are unable to practice due to litigation.

  Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 4:11 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Health care costs are rising; however, medical malpractice litigation has nothing to do with it. According to the Congressional Budget Office, medical malpractice amounted to less than 2 percent of...

• Hawaii Medical Malpractice Alert: Good Doctors Cover-up for Bad Doctors

  Wayne Parsons | January 01, 2009 2:50 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Robert Whitney of Attleboro, Massachusetts, suffered persistent and crippling stomach pain until his problem was finally diagnosed: During a hernia operation four years earlier, surgical mesh...

• Heart Attack Slide Show

  Wayne Parsons | August 30, 2009 3:44 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Its Saturday and I am thinking about which of my weekend chores to take on first. Then I started thinking about people out in their yards and around the house doing the weekend chores and the fact...

• Tort Reform Myth: AMA Statistics Refute 'Doctors Flee' Myth

  Wayne Parsons | May 08, 2009 4:45 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The American Medical Association has data, according to the American Association of Justice (AAJ) that “adds to a growing body of research that proves physicians are not fleeing the profession...

• Texas medical injuries mount as malpractice laws protect negligent doctors and hospitals.

  Wayne Parsons | August 13, 2011 2:50 PM | 22 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Today I report the sad saga of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. As reported by Jamie Stengle of the Associated Press in Forbes, Feds: Parkland conditions a 'threat' to patients a Texas...