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• Wrong Site Surgery: Is the Standard of Care Enough?

  Brooks Schuelke | August 26, 2008 2:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  We have devoted the month of August to Wrong Site Surgeries. Our series started out by looking at the Universal Protocol, the standard of care on how to avoid wrong site surgeries. The standard was...

• A Back Track on School Bus Safety

  Brooks Schuelke | August 15, 2008 4:47 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Last week, in the wake of the Sherman bus wreck, I reported that Texas had taken a giant leap forward during the 2007 legislative session by passing a law that requires school buses to be equipped...

• Time Out!!! Standard of Care for Avoiding Wrong-Site Surgeries, Part 3

  Brooks Schuelke | August 14, 2008 8:54 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Over the last few days we've been looking at the three elements in the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first element is establishment of a pre-operative verification process....

• Something (Other than "X") Marks the Spot: Standard of Care for Avoiding Wrong-Site Surgeries, Part 2

  Brooks Schuelke | August 13, 2008 8:14 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Today, we continue looking at the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first step is to establish a pre-operative verification process. The second step in the Joint Commission...

• Standard of Care For Avoidance of Wrong Site, Wrong Side, Wrong Patient, Wrong Procedure Problems, Part 1

  Brooks Schuelke | August 12, 2008 10:14 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  This is the second part of our series on wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgeries. Today we're looking at the history of the standard of care and the first element that each...

• The Sherman Bus Company Had A History of Noncompliance With Regulators

  Brooks Schuelke | August 08, 2008 12:04 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  The Houston Chronicle is now reporting that the tour operator that drove the bus involved in the Sherman, Texas bus wreck had a history of fines and compliance issues. In fact, in June the Federal...

• A Tragic Bus Crash In Sherman Has Killed At Least 13 And Injured Others

  Brooks Schuelke | August 08, 2008 9:36 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  There was terrible news of a bus crash in Sherman, Texas early this morning. A charter bus carrying 55 people from Houston to Carthage, Mo. for a religious celebration ran off the road and into a...

• McCain's Straight Talk Express Crashed! Should We Take Away The Keys of the Elderly?

  Brooks Schuelke | August 08, 2008 8:32 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  After reading yesterday's post about the crash of the Straight Talk Express, someone jokingly asked me whether the elderly should be driving. In reality, at the time of the wreck, McCain obviously...

• Car Wrecks in the Presidential Election: McCain's Straight Talk Express Might Need Some Straight Driving Lessons

  Brooks Schuelke | August 07, 2008 1:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Car enthusiast website Jalopnik.com is reporting that John McCain's Straight Talk Express left its mark on the election season when it ran over a minivan yesterday. The post has several great photos...

• Wrong Site, Wrong Side, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Patient

  Brooks Schuelke | August 04, 2008 3:27 PM | 1 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Perhaps there is no act of medical malpractice that makes as little sense as those when the doctor performs a procedure on the wrong site or the wrong side of the body, performs the wrong procedure,...