From the monthly archives:

January 2006

January 31, 2006

A lawyer uses his background as a doctor to recruit Vioxx plaintiffs. However, Overlawyered looks deeper at this shady marketing:
The newspaper asks medical ethicist Arthur Caplan about Goldstein’s “selective use of parts of his medical background to recruit legal clients”. Caplan’s response: “I think it’s sleazy”.

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January 31, 2006

More are searching for a doctor by affinity group:
Several Web sites can help consumers find doctors and other health care providers with specified characteristics, including race, religion and sensitivity to sexual orientation.
The sites — which list physicians who are African American, Christian or “gay- or lesbian-friendly” — are putting a new spin on affinity-group marketing, [...]

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January 31, 2006

Via Grand Rounds, Dr. Charles talks about being sued:
But instead of hearing his words I only saw them twisted and misrepresented by a phantom lawyer pouring over my notes, even as I presently jotted them down in the chart. The lawyer was fat, sweaty, and angry as he sat his corpulence upon my shoulder to [...]

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January 31, 2006

The Boston Globe reports on the “flying ICU”, which evacuated the wounded ABC newscasters from Iraq:
“What you saw is why these two guys are alive, and why so many of our soldiers are still alive,” said Dr. Laurence Ronan, a Massachusetts General Hospital internist who was on the flight that carried Vogt and Woodruff out [...]

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January 31, 2006

A nursing home employee raping a 92-year old demented resident is not medical malpractice.

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January 31, 2006

A physician on futile end-of-life care: “. . . the health care equivalent of Hail Mary passes.”

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January 31, 2006

I often wonder what medical malpractice is like overseas. Here’s a story of medical malpractice in Japan:
“We are at war with hierarchical, old-fashioned Japanese society,” says Doctor A. “But we are doctors so it is our responsibility to put the dignity of patients first.”
Mr. Cummings was operated on by doctors using a relatively new [...]

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January 31, 2006

Are children of scientists more prone to autism? “The recent rise in autism may have been driven by the tendency of like-minded engineers, physicists, mathematicians and other ’systemizers’ to marry each other, according to a Cambridge University professor.”

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January 31, 2006

NY Times: “The homeless die at twice the rate of other New Yorkers, and AIDS and substance abuse account for a third of all their deaths but fewer than 5 percent of deaths in the general population, according to the study released yesterday.”

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January 31, 2006

Feds drop fraud case after physician dies. How thoughtful of them.

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January 30, 2006

E-mails from a military doctor in Iraq:
“These guys don’t complain,” the doctor wrote. “They only ask over and over, ‘How is Sgt. Smith doing?’ or ‘When can I go back to work?’ These guys are true heroes. I am so lucky to be a part of taking care of them.”

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January 30, 2006

Below, we had the lawyer’s view. Now we have the reality:
Rashelle Perryman’s first two babies were born at Crittenden County Hospital in Marion, Ky., about 10 minutes from home.
But her third child, due in June, is to be born in Madisonville, 40 miles away in Hopkins County, because rising malpractice-insurance rates caused doctors at [...]

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January 30, 2006

“Blaming the lawyers is just killing the messenger.” Medical malpractice as viewed by the trial lawyers.

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January 30, 2006

Changing his story: Frist tries to defend his tele-diagnosis of Terri Schiavo.

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January 30, 2006

The American Academy of Dermatologists doesn’t agree with the black box warning on Elidel:
“The AAD is very disappointed with this ruling by the FDA,” AAD spokeswoman Abby Van Voorhees, MD, tells WebMD. “We don’t think the science supports this harsh labeling. The link to cancer was not proven, and the data shows these medications to [...]

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