Posts tagged patient

• Patient Safety at Hawaii Hospitals

  Wayne Parsons | May 09, 2012 3:16 AM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Any type of surgery can be scary. But would you feel better or worse about your impending surgery if you knew how the hospital ranked in terms of patient safety? For some this very question may...

• FDA finalizes rules allowing patients greater access to experimental drugs.

  Wayne Parsons | August 16, 2009 1:47 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bloomberg News (8/13, Randall) reports that new regulations posted on the FDA's website Wednesday will grant seriously ill patients greater access to experimental drugs. The FDA said the rules let...

• Surgery in Your Near Future? Stay Out of the Hospital in the Summer Months or if You Must Go Here Are 5 Tips from Martine Ehrenclou to Make Your Summer Hospital Stay Safe

  Wayne Parsons | May 23, 2009 3:31 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Martine Ehrenclou, MA - Contributor Author of Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive A good friend of mine has to have rotator cuff surgery....

• Tort Reform Reality: A War of Attrition by Michael Bennett

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

  Introducing Contributing Author Michael Bennett, President, The Coalition For Patients’ Rights Rather than initially launching an all out assault, conducting war by using a slow, incremental...

• Mayo Clinic Backs New Personal Health Record Site

  Wayne Parsons | May 05, 2009 3:37 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects the privacy of your health information. But it also protects your rights to continue your health insurance as you or a spouse...

• Institute of Medicine (IOM) Calls for "Far-Reaching" Changes to Prevent Medical Industry Gifts To Influence Patient Care and Research.

  Wayne Parsons | April 29, 2009 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Wall Street Journal (4/28, Rockoff) reported, The Institute of Medicine [IOM] recommended Tuesday that doctors, medical schools, professional groups and drug makers make far-reaching changes...

• Afraid of Deadly Medical Errors If You Have To Go Into The Hospital? 8 Tips to Prevent Them.

  Wayne Parsons | April 07, 2009 2:38 PM | 6 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  By Martine Ehrenclou - Author of the Acclaimed book Critical Conditions - The Essential Hospital Guide To Get Your Loved One Out Alive Martine Ehrenclou No doubt you've heard about the...

• Medical Malpractice in Hawaii - Should The Hawaii Legislators Reward Doctors?

  Wayne Parsons | March 24, 2009 10:28 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  While the Hawaii legislature considers handing out a free pass for doctors to injure their patients through blatant mistakes and not have to pay for it, a recent survey shows that the medical...

• Federal Preemption Puts Consumers At Risk According To Observers

  Wayne Parsons | March 23, 2009 1:41 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register (3/20) Joel Olah, executive director of aging resources of central Iowa, wrote, Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of...

• 80 Year-old Nursing Home Resident Evicted and Left at Emergency Room - What do you think about that?

  Wayne Parsons | January 08, 2009 6:21 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Florence Ko, 81, had lived at Nu’uanu Hale in Honolulu for 18 months when a week before Christmas the staff at Nu'uanu Hale dropped her off at Straub Clinic & Hospital Emergency Room...