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A Brief History And The Current Status Of “Comparative Negligence” And “Contributory Negligence”

April 20, 2011

The legal doctrines known as comparative negligence and contributory negligence deal with the relative fault of the parties to a personal injury claim. The contributory negligence doctrine means that a plaintiff (the person making a personal injury claim) who fails to observe ordinary care for his o[...]

New Evidence Suggests That Adverse Medical Events In Hospitals Are 10 Times Greater Than Previously Reported

April 19, 2011

A new study estimates that adverse medical events in hospitals occur at a rate TEN TIMES GREATER than previously thought and that there are adverse medical events in ONE-THIRD of all hospital admissions. The grossly under-reported adverse medical events in the past are due to the manner in w[...]

MML Rants And Raves No. 003: TV Drug Ads.

April 18, 2011

You’ve seen the television commercials: the opening scene is either a smiling woman traipsing in a field of spring flowers or an older couple holding hands and smiling at each other after all those years of marriage. The background music is light and unobtrusive. The announcer begins hawkin[...]

How Healthy Are We In The United States?

April 17, 2011

According to the Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Adults based on the 2009 National Health Interview Survey, 61% of adults 18 and older reported that they were in excellent or very good health (26% were in good health and 13% were in fair or poor health), 55% never participated in any type of v[...]

Causes Of Death In The United States In 2009

April 16, 2011

The recently published preliminary data regarding deaths in the United States for the most recent year available (2009) indicate that the death rate in 2009 was 741.0 per 100,000 population (a total of 2,436,682 deaths in the United States during 2009), down from 758.7 in 2008, which represented a [...]

Is Dental Disease Associated With Chronic Medical Conditions?

April 15, 2011

Recent research lends support to the association between periodontal disease and chronic medical conditions such as metabolic syndrome. The results of recent research suggest that people with severe periodontal disease are likely to have more chronic diseases and are more likely to have metabolic[...]

Who’s Paying Your Doctor (Other Than Your Health Insurance And Your Co-Pays)?

April 14, 2011

Every day doctors see many patients and expect to be paid for their services, as it should be. Many are paid by their patients’ health insurance coverages and by their patients’ co-pays (which seem to increase every year). But are our doctors receiving compensation for their profession[...]

Do Doctors Follow Their Own Advice?

April 13, 2011

According to a new study that surveyed two groups of primary care physicians in the United States, doctors often choose a different treatment option for themselves than what they would recommend to their patients when a choice of treatments is available. The study provided two different treatm[...]

Heart Failure Treatment: Bypass Surgery, Medications, Or Both?

April 12, 2011

Heart failure occurs when there is poor heart pump function. It is estimated that 5.8 Americans live with heart failure. The medical expenses related to heart failure were nearly $40 billion in the United States in 2010. Symptoms of heart failure include shortness of breath, fatigue, and swelling of[...]

MML Rants And Raves No. 002: How Clean Is Your Doctor’s Exam Room?

April 11, 2011

Has this ever happened to you? You enter your doctor’s exam room in which there is a small vinyl-covered exam table with a sheet of wide white tissue paper pulled from the head of the table to the other end of the table, like a partially unrolled large toilet paper roll. But the protective ti[...]

MML Rants And Raves No. 001: Wasting Time In The Doctor’s Waiting Room

April 10, 2011

It is so common that patients have to wait long periods of time in their doctor’s waiting room to see their doctor, even when they are on time or even early for their appointments, that people have to schedule their entire day so that they have the entire morning free if they have an early mo[...]

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