The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), is critical of the way doctors are prescribing prescription painkillers to patients. Dr. Tom Friedan says that physicians are relying on these powerful drugs to treat chronic pain when physical therapy, exercise and…
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial discussed the urgent need for Americans to rethink the way they pay doctors for their services. The trick, according to the opinion piece, is exactly how to make the changes. Currently, most doctors are paid for the services they…
The Florida Supreme Court recently issued an important opinion in the world of medical malpractice that will hopefully serve as an example to courts in other states about the serious downsides of...
The Maryland Supreme Court recently ruled that the state’s Good Samaritan law does not relieve commercial ambulance companies from liability in the event of a medical malpractice...
A scary message by Intuitive Surgical Inc., the company that makes the da Vinci surgical robot, has doctors on alert after a potential issue with the machine was uncovered.
Last week the...
The function of the federal agency Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is to safeguard people who participate in government-financed research. The agency recently discovered that a...
Hospitals across the country decided to purchase and utilize a surgical robot called the “da Vinci robot.” Hospitals purchased these robots despite the lack of peer-reviewed evidence...
In 2003, Texas passed sweeping tort reform legislation that capped non-economic damages that an injured victim could receive from a medical malpractice injury claim to only $250,000 and set...
A lot of keystrokes have been devoted to the discussion about tort reform, particularly as it applies to medical malpractice. Fellow trial attorney, Mary Alice McClarty, recently wrote an...
Most people hear the word “ultrasound” and think of a pregnancy imaging device. While just a few short years ago this would be the best association for an ultrasound, this device has...
