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Doctors will treat fewer patients under new Medicare Plan 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Doctors will treat fewer patients under new Medicare Plan

This morning in the paper was a blurb – on a report released this week from Tampa Florida. The American Medical Association believes the federal government’s mandate to reduce Medicare payments will force more doctors to stop seeing elderly and miltary patients. AMA speaker Jeremy Lazarus stated that “over the next nine years, Medicare will…

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WRITE IT DOWN 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

WRITE IT DOWN

Almost daily, we have clients tell us “I wish I had known to keep a log before this all happened.” What happens is as follows – someone comes in to our office with a possible negligence claim against a nursing home, medical provider etc. We ask them – “did you ever make any formal complaints…

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Better Safe than Sorry 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Better Safe than Sorry

Are you allergic to ANYTHING? Nuts? Sulphur drugs? What about Penicillin? You wouldn’t dream of eating in a restaurant without asking the waitress what is in the chef’s special sauce, so why would you take a prescription from the pharmacy without question? You know where you “sign in” at the pharmacy – you are really…

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CAN YOUR NURSING HOME PREVENT AND TREAT BEDSORES? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

CAN YOUR NURSING HOME PREVENT AND TREAT BEDSORES?

Too many nursing home residents suffer from bedsores, also known as decubitus ulcers. These unsightly and painful ulcers are the result of the failure by staff to turn and change the resident’s position every 2 hours. Patients who are confined to their bed or wheel chair are at high risk for developing decubitus ulcers. Poor…

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ONE OF FOUR MEDICARE PATIENT DEATHS IN HOSPITALS DUE TO NEGLIGENCE 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

ONE OF FOUR MEDICARE PATIENT DEATHS IN HOSPITALS DUE TO NEGLIGENCE

How good is your hospital? A recent examination of Medicare beneficiaries’ records at 5,000 hospitals in the United States reveals that more than one million medical errors occurred between 2002 and 2004. Most alarming is the fact that one quarter of those incidents led to the death of the patient! Read the report for yourself.

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DRUG-COATED CARDIAC STENTS CAUSE PROBLEMS 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

DRUG-COATED CARDIAC STENTS CAUSE PROBLEMS

Cardiac arteries clogged by fatty deposits are a known health threat which often leads to heart attacks. The Gold Standard of treatment used to be angioplasty – a surgical procedure in which a balloon is inflated inside the blood vessel to flatten any plaque which obstructs the flow of blood. However, doctors soon discovered the…

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WHY ARE THE SAME MISTAKES MADE OVER AND OVER AGAIN? 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

WHY ARE THE SAME MISTAKES MADE OVER AND OVER AGAIN?

Why do doctors, nurses, and hospitals repeatedly make the same mistakes which injure or kill their patients? We see it all the time in our cases! The same doctor misdiagnosing acute appendicitis as a simple stomach ache. Emergency physicians regularly missing the opportunity to diagnose a myocardial infarct (heart attack) in the emergency department and…

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150 150 Lauren Ellerman

I read an article today – http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=43631 It’s interesting. Apparently, our federal government and its administrative agencies designed to regulate and police certain industries, such as Nursing Homes, have not been as strict, resolved, or hard on nursing homes as of late. The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, in a report publihsed…

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Legal Medicine Updates now Available via Email 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

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