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Is Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Getting Good Grades for Safety and Patient Care?
Is Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital Getting Good Grades for Safety and Patient Care? 150 150 Dan Frith

Everyone has an opinion on the answer to this question.  However, some opinions should carry more weight than others – take the opinions from the Leapfrog Group,  a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is becoming the…

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Is Your Doctor Telling You The Truth?
Is Your Doctor Telling You The Truth? 150 150 Dan Frith

The title of today’s post is not mine, it belongs to Joe and Teresa Graedon from the People’s Pharmacy.  The article, which appeared in today’s Roanoke Times, starts with the assumption that doctors disclose to patients errors that are made in their diagnosis and treatment.   A foolish assumption for the…

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Medical Errors: How do you know when it happens to you?
Medical Errors: How do you know when it happens to you? 150 150 Dan Frith

Most of the time you (or your family if you are no longer around) know if medical negligence has occurred because the unanticipated injury is obvious or the patient has unexpectedly died.  However, this is not always the case which brings me to a recent article in the Roanoke Times…

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Doctor admits lying in support of colleague at trial!
Doctor admits lying in support of colleague at trial! 150 150 Dan Frith

My firm handles medical malpractice cases and it never ceases to amaze me how defense lawyers, hired by the medical malpractice insurance companies who insure the defendant doctor, always find some well-credentialed and well-educated doctor to come to trial and testify that the defendant did nothing wrong.  We have seen some…

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How to pick a surgeon
How to pick a surgeon 150 150 Dan Frith

If you need emergent surgery, there is no decision to make.  You take whomever the hospital assigns or whomever is available.But what about elective surgeries like hip or knee replacements… or a heart valve repair…or certain cancer surgeries?  For me, I would always choose the surgeon with the most experience. …

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Doctors Instructed to Go Light on Sedatives and Pain Meds to Move Patients Along?
Doctors Instructed to Go Light on Sedatives and Pain Meds to Move Patients Along? 150 150 Dan Frith

Are you kidding me? A hospital taking short cuts to discharge patients too early in order to increase revenue?Erik Franck, MD, an anesthesiologist practicing at the Kaiser Permanente hospitals in the Portland, Oregon has filed a lawsuit against Northwest Permanente (a division of Kaiser Permanente) making these very allegations.  Dr. Franck believes Kaiser…

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Watch out for medical mistakes while in the hospital
Watch out for medical mistakes while in the hospital 150 150 Dan Frith

I didn’t write the title to today’s post but I certainly agree with it.  The title to today’s post comes from The People’s Pharmacy and was written by Joe and Teresa Graedon.  The article was re-published by my local paper, The Roanoke Times, and presents some pretty sobering statistics:  1. …

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Non-Competes Are Bad For The Little Guy and Bad for the Larger Economy
Non-Competes Are Bad For The Little Guy and Bad for the Larger Economy 150 150 Dan Frith

Not my title but my sentiments exactly.  This title comes from an article recently published in Fortune magazine.Non-competes are employment contracts that prevent a departing employee (departing voluntarily or involuntarily) from working for a competitor for one year…or two years…or even three years.  The agreements are not only bad for individual…

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5 Ways to Make Hospitals Safer
5 Ways to Make Hospitals Safer 150 150 Dan Frith

I read with interest an op-ed letter in this week’s Wall Street Journal (May 18, 2016). The letter was written by James Lieber, a lawyer in Pittsburgh.  He noted the recently released studies revealing an astonishingly high number of Americans lose their lives each year due to preventable medical negligence.  His suggestions…

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Medical Errors are now the third leading cause of death in America
Medical Errors are now the third leading cause of death in America 150 150 Dan Frith

Johns Hopkins researchers estimate that medical error is now the third leading cause of death in America.  The numbers are shocking:1.  Heart Disease kills 614,348 each year2.  Cancer kills 591,699 each year3.  Medical Errors kill 251,454 each yearDo the math.  That translates to 689 people die every day (365 days…

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