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According to the New York Times, “Not all hospitals are created equal, and the differences in quality can be a matter of life or death.” I didn’t need a national Newspaper to tell me this and likely, you didn’t either.  Every community I have worked in knows what hospitals are good, which are bad –…

My Mom used to say the following (with some frequency): There is nothing new under the sun.  What did she mean? Only that things often repeat themselves. Maybe not to the same people, or at the same time, but we are creatures of habit and as humans, we make the same mistakes.  In my line…

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 unbelievable situations.  Recently, a well-traveled…

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.  The surgeon who has…