Texas tort reform is again in the news, thanks in part to the recent Ebola crisis. Legal news analysts have been assessing the case of Thomas Eric Duncan, the deceased Dallas Ebola patient. Texas Presbyterian Hospital has admitted that Duncan…
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New study calls the benefits of Texas medical malpractice reform into question
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Florida Pill Mills Fuel Rising Number of Deaths by Drug Overdose
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics for 2011 indicate an increase in Americans fatalities from prescription painkiller overdoses. Many Americans associate death by drug overdose with cocaine, heroine and other street drugs, but medical drugs can be just…
Lawsuit Funding: A Risk-Free Mechanism for Plaintiffs to Pay the Bills
Hospitals and doctors can do remarkable things for their patients; they save lives and cure illnesses every day, in hospitals and clinics all over the country. However, they can also make mistakes, serious ones, and making them accountable for those…
Patient with Ankle Fracture Receives Overdose of Pain Medication
In January 2013, a North Carolina woman went to the hospital with a fractured ankle, but she left with serious medical problems that resulted from an overdose of pain medication. Upon her arrival at the hospital, ER doctors gave her…
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The Vulnerably Housed and Homeless Suffer Increased Risk of TBI
Typically, traumatic brain injury (TBI) coverage focuses on those involved in contact sports and on military veterans. However, TBI also seriously affects vulnerably housed individuals and the homeless. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation recently featured a study arguing that the…
Lawsuit Alleges Doctor’s Failure to Act Led to Severe Heart Damage and Permanent Disability
A Louisiana man has filed a lawsuit alleging that his heart attack could have been prevented if a doctor properly treated his medical condition. The man consulted Dr. Hutchinson after suffering increased chest pains and numbness in his hands. The…
Crowded Emergency Rooms Still a Reality
Crowded Emergency Rooms Still a Reality: It’s a well-known fact that ER rooms at hospitals are overcrowded and the waiting times are ridiculous and some… http://p.ost.im/dGfuWm
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Crowded Emergency Rooms Still a Reality
It’s a well-known fact that ER rooms at hospitals are overcrowded and the waiting times are ridiculous and sometime deadly. Those who can’t afford health insurance are using hospitals as doctor’s offices because hospitals cannot refuse to treat sick people.…
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Medicaid expansion bill will benefit all in state, Snyder says
Medicaid expansion will hopefully lower the cost of health premiums and decrease the number of ER visits. Gov, Rick Snyder believes that the proposed Medicaid expansion will a have a greater impact that just low-income residents. (Related: Pending Benefits Legislation,…
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A New Way of Dispensing Medications by Computer Network
E-prescribing may be the safest and best way to prescribe medications in the future, and it’s just beginning to make inroads in the medical system. Statistically speaking most people, at some point in their life, will be the victim of…
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