Dan Frith

I recently read about a lawsuit against a Florida assisted living facility which is both disturbing and all too common, even here in Virginia. Francis Tremblay (age 99) lived at the Living Legends Retirement Center in Broward County, Florida. During her 29 day stay at this assisted living facility she…

The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on April 13. The article reported on a Portland, Oregon spine surgeon who lost his hospital operating privileges at the Providence Portland Medical Center. Why you ask?Because available data revealed the surgeon had the highest rate of multiple spinal-fusion surgeries among the…

I wrote a blog in February of 2009 titled, “Midwives: A Recipe for Disaster” and received dozens and dozens of emails from irate midwives.The point of my blog post was that, as long as a delivery goes well, a midwife may work out just fine. However, if complications arise during…

We try to stay away from political discussions on this blog…there are enough disputed issues at the intersection of law and medicine! However, I couldn’t resist passing along an article from “McKnight’s Long Term Care News and Assisted Living.” I rarely, almost never, agree with the positions taken by this…

The newspaper report was disturbing. Anderina Sanderson, 89, who had dementia, was assaulted after walking into the room of an 86-year-old male resident at the Central Park Nursing Home in suburban Windsor on April 19, 2007. She died four days later. Three days before he assaulted Mrs Sanderson, the man…

Doctors groups agreed. Trial lawyers agreed. Senators and members of the Gen. Assembly agreed.They all got together and created a bill increasing the cap for malpractice cases in the Commonwealth of Virginia and our Gov. rejects it?Maybe he can explain to the family of a 32 year old mother of…