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Well it’s finally here… Michael Moore’s much ballyhooed movie, “Sicko,” which takes a very hard look at the American health care system. I know the American Medical Association will hate it! I know the health insurance industry will hate it! I know the pharmaceutical giants will hate it! I know I am going to see…

We have heard almost every day this month – something exported from China has problems. This week, The Washington Post writer Marc Kaufman took a detailed look into regulation of generic drugs made overseas – read it here. “India and China, countries where the Food and Drug Administration rarely conducts quality-control inspections, have become major…

There was a good, but discouraging feature on NPR a few weeks ago – on the shortage of nurses nationwide. Read and listen to the feature, here. All Things ConsideredU.S. Faces Critical Nurse Shortage “The demand for nurses is expected to outstrip the number coming out of nursing schools in the coming years, as some…

According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas is suing three drug companies alleging the companies took advantage of the Medicare system and cost the state tens of millions of dollars in overpayments. The lawsuit was filed against Sandoz, Inc. of New Jersey, Mylan Laboratories of Pennsylvania and Teva Pharmaceuticals, Inc., along with some of their subsidiaries.…

There is an Internet site called JobSchmob.com where anyone can post information, rants, etc. about their job. The post that most interests me is one entitled “Valley View nursing home in Williamsport PA is DEATH VALLEY VIEW!” You can view Valley View’s website here. This post is from a former LPN that worked at a…

Danville Regional Medical Center (DRMC) was purchased by Nashville, TN based Lifepoint Hospitals, Inc. in 2005….and the problems have not stopped since! The last two years brought about a number of changes at the management level, including last week’s announced departure of the hospital’s fourth CEO since 2005. More importantly for hospital patients, DRMC was…

The sub-title on this article sends chills down my spine…” Doctors across the country keep wheeling us in and cutting us open, even when they’re missing something vitally important: a good reason.” Here at Legal Medicine, we are always suggesting that you need to take charge of your own medical care. Here is another reason…

Arkansas Supreme Court upholds prior ruling to allow a class action lawsuit againt nursing home owned by Beverly Healthcare (who owns/owned nursing homes across the United States, including Virginia). Read the latest here: “On May 1, 2006, Harkey granted class-action certification to the suit with respect to claims of statutory and contractual violations only, not…

The Roanoke Times newspaper contained an Associated Press article today (June 25, 2007) entitled “Drug-Resistant Staph Superbug Increasingly Prevalent, Study Says.” The article is about the shocking numbers of hospital and nursing home patients who are becoming sick with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which cannot be controlled by normal antibiotics. A survey released by the…

It is reported on MSNBC that the government recently gave hospitals around the country a report card based upon how they have treated patients with heart attacks or heart failure. Officials scored almost 4,500 hospitals around the country and most performed around the national average when their patient mortality rates were considered. The Secretary of…

The state Board of Medicine will give staff members more authority over many disciplinary cases to try to reduce a backlog of more than 2,000 complaints against doctors and other health professionals. It is about time! Under Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s “Virginia Performs” initiative, all of the state boards are being asked to resolve 90…