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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…

An examination of child-related medical negligence settlements and judgments finds that failure to diagnose is the most common reason for payments. The study, published in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, pulled statistics from the National Practitioner Data Bank, a mandatory electronic depository which documents such payments. My conclusion – pediatricians…

This case comes from Oregon but could be from anywhere. The patient, a 54 year old woman, underwent a routine mammogram at a health clinic. The radiologist who interpreted the study reported it as normal. However, two years later the patient was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer which had metastasized to her bones and…

For that matter don’t get sick on the weekends or at other dangerous times! What are we talking about? Well, a recently published study found that heart-attack patients admitted to a hospital on Saturday or Sunday are at a greater risk of dying than those same patients when admitted between Monday and Friday. The report,…

Let’s face it – most residents in assisted living facilities and nursing homes are incapable of moving quickly. They may be confined to a bed…a wheel chair…or a meri-walker. This reality can have devastating results when a fire breaks out! Virginia law requires fire suppression and alarm systems in its nursing homes. Although it is…