In a special online publication by the British Medical Journal Quality & Safety, researchers report the results of a poll of doctors in the United States and Great Britain about various aspects of professional behavior. The results are surprising, and not all in a good way. The following are the answers given by the U.S. …
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The ideal doctor is brilliant, caring, and infallible. Unfortunately, that ideal is impossible. At HensonFuerst Attorneys, we handle enough medical malpractice cases to know that doctors and hospitals make mistakes. Many times those “mistakes” could have been prevented if standard medical had been given, or if the hospital followed proper quality procedures. When serious, preventable …
We have had a lot of concerned patients contact us with questions about the Duke University clinical trials that are currently being investigated by us, as well as by the national Institute of Medicine. The specific names and NCT numbers of the questioned trials are listed below. The numbers are important because they will be …
In the nursing home case below, a 7.75 million dollar verdict was awarded against the nursing home for the abuse of a 71 year old woman patient. The abuse was caught on film because a video camera was hidden in her room by the woman’s family to make sure she was safe. Ironically, the home …
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More ideas on tort reform. How about making hospitals disclose their errors harming patients? Its called accountability. In Pennsylvania, state hospitals are required to disclose patient outcomes and guess what? That state has learned that disclosure helps improve care, and that good care is actually cheaper than bad care. How about reforming North Carolina law …
How about a little hypocrisy. For weeks now, we have been hearing about how tort reform is needed to prevent doctors from having to practice what they call “defensive medicine,” performing unnecessary and expensive tests that drive up the cost of care. But lookee here, folks — when the Senate has tried to add financial …