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Doctors receive money in return for delivering lectures about drugs to other doctors. Some of the doctors receiving the most money sit on committees that prepare guidelines instructing doctors nationwide about when to use medicines. Dr. Allan Collins may be the most influential kidney specialist in the country. In 2004, the year he was chosen…

Each state regulates nursing homes differently. For example, some require minimum staffing ratios and some do not (unfortunately most do not, including my state of Virginia). How well does your state regulate nursing homes? Check all 50 states laws governing the operation and licensure of nursing homes.

The average price paid per bed for skilled nursing facilities hit a record $47,400 in 2006, according to the latest edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report. The figure marks a nearly 10% increase over the 2005 average sale price and 50% premium over the 2003 mark. Why so expensive? The increasing number of elderly…

Have you seen you tube? Are you worried you will end up on it someday? Well here is a new one, you may end up on your physician’s blog. YES, you read it right, many physicians acrosss the country have started blogging about patients, situations, etc. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031602097.html What kind of things are they talking about?…

Those of you who have followed our blogs on Legal Medicine know that we have previously published articles on some of the more corrupt executives who own and run nursing homes in America. Well here we go again! Three former nursing home executives, one a lawyer, were charged on March 15 in a federal indictment…

A new report out on Alzheimer’s Disease, estimates that at least 5 million Americans are living with the disease. Well, if that calculation is correct – then there are likely 20 million Americans battling Alzheimer’s disease. What do I mean? Well for each patient, there is a family, a group of providers, fighting to keep…

A 65 year old man went to his family practitioner who ordered a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. The test showed highly elevated PSA levels – indicative of prostate cancer. Two weeks later the patient returned to his family doctor who again ordered a PSA test. The second test, performed at a local hospital, revealed…

We have heard about class action litigation in a variety of areas – from big tobacco, to breast implants and telephone lines – as long as a certain number of people have the same or similar complaint or injury, and the damages are a certain amount – you can seek Class Action Status (here is…

What kind of doctor do you want? A confident professional, little small talk, and a quick decider? Or how about a caring communicator who acknowledges uncertainty? Many patients might be inclined to select the former…and they would probably be wrong! Jerome Groopman, MD has recently published a book entitled, “How Doctors Think” and it is…

The news this winter has followed a familiar path regarding the frequency and effects of flu outbreaks in nursing homes. I previously blogged on this topic. Norovirus, flu, group a strep, whatever the infectious process… don’t we owe our elderly and infirm a safe environment in which to live? In 2007, more and more nursing…