For Patients: How Big Pharm Corrupts Medical Practices
For patients, trusting your physician to put your interests first is taken for granted. But what happens...
E-ICUs: A Disturbing Trend for Patients
For patients, the intensive care unit (ICU) is a medical refuge where a team of critical care nurses, critical...
Doctors’ Insurance Premiums Continue to Fall
The next time someone complains about escalating malpractice premiums driving doctors out of business, following is some pertinent...
Congratulations to National Nurses United
National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest nurses organization in the U.S. They have been front...
Injuries Caused By Greed, Incompetence
A doctor who operates on the patient’s wrong leg and claims he did her a favor? ...
For Consumers, Caps on Damages Are Not The Answer
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) acknowledges what advocates for consumers of healthcare...
Healthcare Does Not Fit Into A Mass Production Model
The New Yorker recently published an article by a Harvard surgeon in which he contended that the Cheesecake...
How Malpractice Claims Improve Healthcare for Consumers
For consumers of healthcare services, safety is the top priority. Likewise, one aim of tort law is...
Study Shows 1 In 4 Medicare Patients Injured By Medical Error
Medical errors are all too common for consumers of healthcare services. I previously reported that approximately 1,503,323...
