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Does your family doctor provide good care?
Does your family doctor provide good care? 150 150 Dan Frith

This is an important question.  Most people will see their family doctor (also call primary care provider) at least once a year.  We often have a personal relationship with these doctors.  We may know their families and they know ours.  We see those doctors when we have a sore throat which…

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Getting Admitted to the Hospital on the Weekend can kill you
Getting Admitted to the Hospital on the Weekend can kill you 150 150 Dan Frith

I am not kidding and now there is a study to back me up.The New England Journal of Medicine just published a study titled, “Mortality among Patients Admitted to Hospitals on Weekends as Compared with Weekdays.”  The study’s authors looked at over 3.5 million hospital admissions over a 10 year period…

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Lock Up Workers – Legally
Lock Up Workers – Legally 150 150 Dan Frith

The New York Times recently published an editorial on non-compete agreements titled, “Agreements That Lock Up Workers, Legally.”  You can read the editorial here.The editorial lays out why unfair non-compete agreements make our country less competitive and less innovative but the most striking information for me is that 28 million…

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I Absolutely Hate Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation Agreements
I Absolutely Hate Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation Agreements 150 150 Dan Frith

I know…I know, I ‘ve said it before but non-competes are horrible and make America less competitive and stifle innovation and entrepreneurship, and they always hurt the little guys!Take a few moments from your day and read this article from the New York Times.  The title, “Companies Compete but Won’t…

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Bill Supported by Virginia’s own Bob Goodlatte would make Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Harder to Win
Bill Supported by Virginia’s own Bob Goodlatte would make Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Harder to Win 150 150 Dan Frith

Republican Bob Goodlatte is a long-time member of the Virginia delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.  He currently serves as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.  As an aside, he was elected in 1993 after a campaign in which he stressed the need for “term limits.”  That’s correct…he has…

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Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center Do Not Get High Marks
Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center Do Not Get High Marks 150 150 Dan Frith

The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for patients.  It is the nation’s premier advocate of hospital transparency—collecting, analyzing and disseminating important hospital data to consumers of health care for the past 16 years.  The Roanoke Times just published an article on the most recent…

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What Happens to your Non-Compete Contract When your Employer is Purchased?
What Happens to your Non-Compete Contract When your Employer is Purchased? 150 150 Dan Frith

We get this question frequently and the answer can be complicated.  In the most common situation, an employee signs a non-compete agreement with her employer (the ABC Company).  The contract provides the employee will not leave the ABC Company (its subsidiaries or affiliates) and compete in the same industry or…

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House of Representative Member Bob Goodlatte: Working Hard to Take Away Your Rights
House of Representative Member Bob Goodlatte: Working Hard to Take Away Your Rights 150 150 Dan Frith

Bob Goodlatte, a Republican congressman from Virginia, is a co-sponsor of HR 1215, a bill laughingly titled, “Protecting Access to Care Act.” The bill, if passed next week, will do exactly the opposite.The bill places sharp limits on lawsuits by individuals who have been injured by abusive nursing homes, incompetent…

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Urgent Care Medicine: Good or Bad?
Urgent Care Medicine: Good or Bad? 150 150 Dan Frith

Starting in the 1970s, enterprising physicians began opening their practices after-hours to patients suffering minor ailments without an appointment. Patients avoided expensive emergency rooms, and they avoided long waits to see their family doctors. For the most part, the idea is a good one and there are about 7,400 urgent…

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Congress is getting ready to take away patients’ rights to hold medical providers accountable for their acts of negligence
Congress is getting ready to take away patients’ rights to hold medical providers accountable for their acts of negligence 150 150 Dan Frith

There is currently a bill in Congress (HR1215 – Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017) put forth by Congressman Bob Goodlatte (Chairman, House Judiciary Committee) that would significantly limit the rights of patients who have been injured by a nursing home, drug manufacturer, medical device company, hospital, or doctor. Nationally, medical…

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