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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,...

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According to an investigation done by the Dallas/Fort Worth Fox television station affiliate, the medical malpractice reforms enacted five years ago aren't bringing the promised benefits. The...

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This week, movie star (and part-time Austin resident) Dennis Quaid spent a considerable amount of time speaking to Congress about preemption. Quaid told Congress the oft-repeated story of his twins,...

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I saw a story that the North Carolina Medical Board is considering making medical malpractice data available to consumers. The board would publish the doctor's name, the settlement amount, and an...

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Last night, I was watching the local news, and they ran a story about medical tourism. The premise of the story was that more and more Americans are traveling overseas to have medical procedures...

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One of the benefits of tort "reform", according to its supporters, is that reform is supposed to increase access to care by making more physicians available. But in Ohio, the data is now in. Five years after the state enacted medical malpractice caps, there are fewer doctors delivering babies. Recent data also questions the claim that tort reform was necessary due to rising insurance rates. ...

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In a disturbing new trend, many doctors and other medical groups are requiring patients to enter into arbitration agreements prior to the doctors providing medical care. There are many problems with pre-dispute arbitration agreements, and the biggest in my mind is that the patient is giving up rights without the benefit of counsel. Most people don't know that arbitration can be as expensive...

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"It's bigger than AIDS. It's bigger than breast cancer. It's bigger than auto accidents. And yet no one seems to really be aware of the problem."That's a quote from Dennis Quaid talking about medical errors. Over 100,000 people a year are killed by medical errors, but the public doesn't seem to know about the problem. Though his twins are doing fine after their well publicized experience...

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We had previously posted about the medical malpractice case filed by John Ritter's widow. After a long and grueling trial, the case came to a close last Friday when the jury found that the two remaining doctors had not committed medical malpractice in providing treatment to the actor. Prior to this trial, the hospital and other entities had entered settlements with the family.The case can be...

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There has been a bit of a debate recently about doctors and hospitals billing for services when they commit medical malpractice. Indeed, since last fall, hospitals in 10 states have agreed to waive fees for certain errors called "never events" because experts say they should never happen. But MSNBC has a new story about a medical malpractice charge that may take the cake. As the story...

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Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs and 11 other plaintiffs filed suit Monday seeking an order from a judge that Texas's medical malpractice caps violate various provisions of the United States Constitution. The challenge is the first federal constitutional challenge to the statute.We will try and keep you posted as the case progresses.

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Some lobbyist groups would like to believe so, and they've filed a new suit to try and prove it. The case stems from a medical malpractice case in Corpus. There, a Corpus doctor was sued by one of his patients after the patient developed a severe infection after a surgery. In the suit, the patient asserted that the medical malpractice damage caps violated several provisions of the Texas...

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This weekend, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about a disturbing trend of mandatory arbitration agreements showing up in the medical malpractice context. The article states:Within the space of two weeks late last year, Michael and Hedy Cohen, who happen to be experts on medical errors, each encountered what they saw as a disturbing development in the modern doctor-patient relationship. They...

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The February 2, 2008 Kansas City Star reports on a study from the National Senior Citizens Law Center that finds that many nursing home agreements may be violating state and federal law. Eric Carlson, the study's author, said that some of the agreements conflict with the federal Nursing Home Reform Law and state laws. The federal law requires nursing homes to provide care that helps residents...

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Tomorrow, a medical malpractice trial is scheduled to start involving the death of actor John Ritter (the family has previously settled with the hospital involved). In the trial, the Ritter family is seeking an award of $67 million, an amount that the family claims Mr. Ritter would have earned for his continued acting on the show "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter." The case is a...

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