Washington, DC Medical Malpractice

March 16, 2011

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Medical malpractice lawyers can help you by: Evaluating the merit of your case. Dealing with healthcare organizations to gain access to medical records, clinicians, and other evidence to support a client’s negligence claim. Finding qualified physicians and other expert witnesses to evaluate individual cases and testify to medical malpractice, as required by law. Working with [...]

George Orwell Comes to Washington: The "Protect Patients Now" Lobbying Group

March 19, 2011

If you wanted to lobby for a law that wipes out the rights of patients to hold hospitals, drug manufacturers and doctors accountable when they hurt people by carelessness and wrongful conduct, what would you call your group?

“Protect Patients Now!” It…

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Mandated use of unproven screening practices drives up medical costs with little patient benefit

March 17, 2011

A new Texas law that mandates insurance coverage for coronary artery calcium scanning and carotid artery ultrasound was “premature” and will have major ramifications for public health, a noted Texas cardiologist says.

In a commentary published in …

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‘Apology’ legislation could inhibit medical malpractice suits

March 16, 2011

Recently passed legislation in the Pennsylvania General Assembly that would prohibit malpractice plaintiffs from using apologies in lawsuits could hurt victims of malpractice seeking restitution in the courts. If the bill becomes law, it would make ina…

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"When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

March 12, 2011

Yet more evidence that expensive technology drives treatment decisions in medicine: A new survey of prostate cancer treatment shows that once a hospital invests the $1 million to $2.5 million it takes to get a surgical robot, men in the area start to g…

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Female Hormone Injections for Weight Loss: Another Quack Remedy

March 10, 2011

Some unethical doctors are charging patients big bucks for prescriptions of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) for weight loss. Supposedly you can lose fat in just the right places, the belly for one, if you take daily hCG injections in your abdomen. …

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Hospital’s comprehensive obstetrics program cuts malpractice claims by 99%

March 10, 2011

Anyone who believes it’s inevitable that some babies will get injured during childbirth may have a change of heart after reading how a New York City hospital dramatically cut staff errors and reduced medical malpractice payouts by 99%.

In a report pub…

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The Coming Cancer Epidemic from Overuse of CT Scans

March 8, 2011

The medical community is waking up to an enormous problem with radiation – mainly X-rays and CT scans — used to diagnose disease and injury. Patients are getting too much radiation, and the excess itself causes injuries, many years down the road, i…

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Fewer central line infections in ICU, but not in other wards

March 8, 2011

The number of bloodstream infections in intensive care units (ICUs) caused by tubes inserted into major blood vessels decreased significantly between 2001 to 2009, but unacceptably high rates of infection are still occurring for patients in other hospi…

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My Child Has Bacterial Meningitis

March 3, 2011

What do I do when my child has bacterial meningitis? Bacterial meningitis in children is a medical emergency. Every minute counts in getting antibiotic treatment to kill the bacteria that have invaded the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord (called CSF or cerebrospinal fluid). When treatment is delayed for whatever reason, children can die [...]

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