So much for that threat to doctors - they didn't even last a year in Portland, OR:
Rite Aid Corp.'s first experiment offering health clinics inside its stores ended when the clinic operator decided it could not turn a profit.
Take Care Health Systems told Rite Aid that it would close its last seven health clinics on Friday, less than a year after opening 10 of them in Rite ...
Another "ER is too busy, I had to wait" story. Maybe if more of these get published, something can be done about it.
At least they acknowledge a shortage as well as reimbursement issues. More than can be said Stateside.
. . . try Baghdad.
Another jury sending a message. The incident involves giving Glipizide, a diabetes medicine. Noted in the case, was the Oxycontin-addicted pharmacist who stole 86,000 pills over an eight-year period.
Occurring daily at an ER near you. The main reason why health care costs are skyrocketing.
Demand increases, shortages develop, quality goes down. The road where Medicare is taking us.
Thanks to various commenters from the prior post for the links.
Apparently the patient didn't want any student touching her. More details:
Mullins sued because several weeks before the procedure, her surgeon, Dr. Marvin E. Eastlund provided her with an informed consent document on which she indicated she did not want health care students in the operating room.
"Whose responsibility is it when a patient ...
Certainly a world of difference compared to what happens here:
This was the beginning of a series of happy discoveries about medical care in Belgium. Healthcare in the US is mired in bureaucracy and competing interests and concerns about liability. It's a complex system that both doctors and patients hate for different reasons. The typical doctor must employ a receptionist to handle calls and appointments, an office manager to ...
So much for time travel being a valid therapy:
State regulators had been investigating Dr. James Burda of Athens, who said he could take care of anyone, anywhere by reaching back in time to when the injury occurred.
Burda said he discovered the skill six years ago when he hurt his own foot while driving. He said he gave the pain a command to stop and it went away.
Lawyers sidestep a voter-approved constitutional malpractice cap. Doctors are asking patients to sign a form waiving their rights to to collect anything more than $250,000 in a medical malpractice lawsuit:
"We cannot allow trial lawyers to circumvent the will of the people through their legal maneuvering," said Patrick Hutton, president of the Florida Medical Association and an orthopedic surgeon from the Jacksonville area.
Hutton and other FMA officials ...
Some patients think they can sue doctors for anything. Like this story over medical bills:
Out of the blue, we received a bill for $300 from a collection agency from the former neurologist. I recently wrote to the doctor and told her what had transpired and how we felt we owe her nothing.
We know we could have pursued a medical malpractice claim but choose not to, ...
Having medical students intubate during elective procedures, under supervision of an anesthesiologist, is common practice. However, this patient specifically wanted no medical students, but the hospital ignored her wishes:
The Indiana Supreme Court is considering whether a woman who had to have a second surgery after a medical student tore her esophagus during a botched procedure was a victim of battery.
Attorneys for W- Ruth Mullins say she signed ...
I don't think almost-bankrupt General Motors is really in a place where they should be telling anybody how to run things.
I'm surprised it took this long.
More challenges facing primary care. Why do I get the feeling this is just protesting on the Titanic?
Sorry, this is not news at all - as readers here already know.
I'm happy to see the hospitals developing a backbone. Someone has to fight against reimbursement extortion that the insurance monopolies are applying. Notably, UnitedHealth is involved in many of these disputes.
It is Actiq, which is transmucosal fentanyl. Apparently this expensive drug is routinely being prescribed for musculoskeletal conditions.
Scalpel or Sword (newly added to the blogroll) lists a few. (via GruntDoc)
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