Medical Malpractice

• Web Access To Medical Malpractice Settlements

  Bob Carroll | January 15, 2006 7:42 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  If you are pondering the pros and cons of internet access to information regarding medical malpractice settlements (and have 20 minutes to spare) read the scholarly article posted at Red Orbit:Redefining the Physician Selection Process and Rewriting Medical Malpractice Settlement Disclosure WebpagesBy Brown, Matthew EEvery state provides publicly accessible physician profiles via the...

• I Wonder Where I Left My Adept Med Fish

  Bob Carroll | January 13, 2006 9:12 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  I have misplaced my glasses from time to time so I guess it is hard to make the facts of this malpractice case into a criminal matter. But, leaving a foot-long surgical instrument inside a patient seems pretty careless. The official medical malpractice lingo would be a retained foreign object. This surgical team must have had a kickoff to make. The story is posted at Boston.com.A Belmont...

• Getting Emotional About Malpractice

  Bob Carroll | January 13, 2006 6:26 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Medical providers who prescribe drugs for emotional problems are awakening to the malpractice lurking in those prescriptions. Welcome to 2006, fellas. You are just now getting concerned?Four significant issues have converged to impact and heighten concern about the potential for more malpractice litigation related to psychopharmacology:Psychiatric malpractice lawsuits frequently include...

• Specialty Courts Would Bring Special Problem - Bias

  Bob Carroll | January 12, 2006 8:40 PM | 5 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog casually floats the idea of special courts for medical malpractice claims. Nice try, Wall Street, but I prefer my justice served with fairness and impartiality. Some years ago my clients and I experienced the kind of justice that occurs in a special tribunal in the State of Florida. The special tribunal process was created as part of a pre-suit screening...

• Hand-Washing Would Cut Deadly Hospital Infections

  Bob Carroll | January 09, 2006 5:43 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Hospital infections cause more deaths, but hand-washing is the solution - TimesLeader:A 2003 report in the New England Journal of Medicine called infections "by far the most common complications affecting hospitalized patients."Hospital-acquired infections are the fourth-largest killer in the United States, according to the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID), a New York-based nonprofit...

• Practice Makes The Difference Between Life And Death In Sugeries

  Bob Carroll | January 07, 2006 7:12 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  From England, Korea and other countries researchers are learning what should be common sense: "The growing volume of evidence that surgical expertise has a significant impact on outcome is becoming increasingly hard to ignore" says Professor Ian Fentiman from London's Guy's Hospital. "The days of the occasional breast cancer surgeon are coming to an end." He says the same holds true for other...

• Marjorie Hodge's Views On Poor Care At Government Hospitals

  Bob Carroll | January 04, 2006 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Special Recognition to north Florida resident, Marjorie Hodge, who sent the following message to Gainesville.com: The medical atrocity recently reported at the naval hospital in Jacksonville is just the tip of the iceberg in some government facilities. Apparently, different and much lower standards of care are permitted in a lot of government facilities and it is outrageous that legal assistance...

• Does Your Doctor Have A Five Star Rating?

  Bob Carroll | January 03, 2006 7:25 AM | 1 CommentTampa Bay, FL

  There may be a new way to get the scoop on a doctor. According to msspnexus blog a web site now allows the public to rate and comment about doctors online. "The site claims that as of today 20,379 physicians have been rated, with 74 new ones added yesterday. Developers assert that the site is changing the way the world looks at medicine by providing patients with the unique opportunity to rate...

• Electronic Patient Records May Cause Medical Errors

  Bob Carroll | January 03, 2006 6:08 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  When a bad result occurs during medical care there may be a culprit hidden from view. Even though electronic health records have been proposed as one way to reduce medical errors, their design can contribute to errors as well. Melonie Nance, M.D., at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation: "The way doctors work, and the way we think about...

• "Fleeing Doctors" Given Proper Burial By KY Blog

  Bob Carroll | January 02, 2006 6:35 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  Wow!! BlueGrassReport's EVEN MORE PHONY Medical Malpractice Lies takes on the "fleeing doctors" claim of the tort reformers and gives it the burial it deserves.