Sweet Benefits: Hospital employee cashes in after visit to ER at work Read [New York Daily News]
Novel Idea: One surgeon's deadly prescriptions for lawsuit happy lawyers Read [Webwire]
'Suit: Singer silenced by sloppy dentists Read [St. Clair Record]
Opinion: Lower health care costs by banning all media advertising of health care providers, lawyers and law firms, insurance companies and, most of all, prescription drugs.
Hmmm? Yeah, that's the ticket. Read [Detroit Free Press]
City Attorney: Liability risk too high, forget the defibrillators Read [The Record]
Common Good: "Fear of erratic jury decisions in medical malpractice cases has spawned a culture of fear, causing inefficiencies that infect every level of medicine." Read [Wall Street Journal]
Texas Republican Skewers GOP Lawman: "Liability insurance carriers successfully fought to limit the right to a jury trial for patients who suffer grievous bodily harm at the hands of negligent doctors and hospitals." Read [Star-Telegram]
Dr. Michael Gleeson is miffed that his lawyer got $600K when he sued the cops and won $2 million.
While the doc/lawyer friction is interesting. The back story to how it got to this point is fantastic.
In 1999, Dr. Gleeson approached the owner of the Grandview Gentlemen's Club.
"How about I enhance your employees' breasts," he said. Or at least something to that effect.
"Brilliant," the proprietor probably replied. And they had a deal.
Gleeson got to work, enlarging the breasts by inserting an implant through a tunnel from the belly button to the pocket beneath the breasts.
But then, let's call her Cheyenne West, didn't like her new look. So she called the cops.
The police arrested Dr. Gleeson on 400, YES 400, separate charges linked to his services.
But the charges were eventually tossed and Dr. Gleeson sued the cops and some local governments for the mess. And he won.
Now, Dr. Gleeson says his lawyer shouldn't have gotten a 30% cut and he's asking a federal judge to slice it.
We love this story. Read [Pocono Record]
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"This election destroyed a popular Karl Rove myth. The truth is that trial attorneys are winning, attacks on trial attorneys are backfiring and opponents of the civil justice system are losing."
The CEO of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America said.
"We have discovered that virtually all patients are willing to sign a contract in which they agree not to sue their doctors on frivolous grounds."
Jeffrey Segal, M.D, a board-certified neurosurgeon and the founder and president of Medical Justice Services, Inc., said.
"Low-risk obstetrics has been done here for 60 years, but not anymore."
Carl Hanson, chief operating officer of the county-run Minidoka Memorial Hospital in southern Idaho hospital's, explained as they get out of the baby business. Read
"I have children, and I don't know where they're at."
Rosalinda Elison, a former patient at the UC Irvine Medical Center’s fertility clinic, said after learning that that her eggs and embryos had been stolen and implanted in another woman who then gave birth to twins.
Read more You Don't Say, here.
$4.6 million
New York state grants available to expand the use of electronic medical records. Such initiatives have been hailed nationally as a way to cut medication errors, save money and improve patient safety. LINK
$700,000
Amount raised by Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Reform to oppose malpractice limits in Arizona. LINK
$450,000
Amount the Arizona Medical Association says Arizonans for Access to Health Care has raised to decide whether to push for montetary limits on lawsuits. LINK
Read more CRISIS BY NUMBERS, here.
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