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This is a little difficult to explain. How can a surgeon leave a piece of a surgical scalpel inside a patient? Why does a doctor leave in a removable blood clot filter in a patient for years? How about leaving a needle in a female patient’s breast for years causing great pain and discomfort? All…

I read an article today about a doctor that lost his license in one state – then to go to another state, and assume the name, license and practice info of another doctor. Did he get caught? Yes. Did he got to jail? Yes. But what happened to his patients? Read it all at Legal…

Finasteride – some cancer specialists believe the drug can reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer by 30 percent. The drug is available from Merck & Company, as Proscar, and from six companies as a generic to shrink the prostate in older men whose prostates can enlarge, making urination difficult. The drug is available as…

I ran across an article about a nursing home in Columbus, Ohio (Wexner Heritage Village) which complains it is losing money caring for Medicaid patients. Wexner Heritage Village is shrinking its popular nursing home but adding assisted-living and home-care services to attract those with private insurance, while still trying to adhere to its mission of…

I hear it all the time….”we need to stop these greedy lawyers from filing meritless cases against caring medical professionals.” In my opinion, there are few frivolous cases filed against doctors and hospitals – it is just too expensive and difficult to file worthless cases. But the reason for this post is to urge you…

We would be ashamed if our local hospitals ran ads with “specials / discounts / or “coupons,” wouldn’t we? Open the paper and you see a coupon, for “1 cardio-cath, get the angioplasty free” – or, half off mammograms until Labor day… Perhaps the ads would reminded us that hospitals are most often for profit…

Heparin is a anticoagulant commonly used in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Although called a “blood thinner,”Heparin does not actually thin your blood. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now issued a recall of injectable Heparin products and Heparin flush solutions that may be contaminated with oversulfated chondroitin sulfate (OCSC). The action…

MontVue Nursing Home has denied culpability in its legal response to a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against it last month. “Shenandoah resident Joyce Smith sued MontVue’s parent company Shenandoah Valley Care Inc. after her mother, Joyce Earline Bigelow, a former patient at MontVue, died of complications from a fall last October. The suit…