Confirmation Bias In Medical Malpractice Cases
September 4, 2014
Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias in which we favor information that confirms our previously held beliefs or biases, ignore contrary information, and which impacts not only how we gather information but also influences how we interpret and recall information. Because we tend to seek[...]
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Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (Chronic Lyme Disease)
September 3, 2014
We often receive calls and inquiries from people throughout the United States who have chronic Lyme disease (properly called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome) who claim that their healthcare providers failed to timely and properly diagnose their Lyme disease and/or misdiagnosed their Lyme di[...]
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Nursing Homes May Manipulate The Medicare Star-Rating System
August 30, 2014
Medicare employs a five-star quality rating system for nursing homes throughout the United States. Nursing homes that receive a five-star rating are supposed to be the best in the nation – only about one-fifth of the more than 15,000 nursing homes in the United States have received a five-sta[...]
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Should Doctors Be Tested For Drugs And Alcohol Abuse?
August 28, 2014
California voters who go to the polls on November 4, 2014 will be faced with the public safety issue whether doctors in California should be tested for drug and alcohol abuse, which is contained in California’s Proposition 46. Part of the Official Summary for Proposition 46 states, “R[...]
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Ohio Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $1.8M In Death Case
August 19, 2014
On August 12, 2014, an Ohio medical malpractice jury, after a two-week trial, awarded the estate of a 30-year-old man who never woke up after surgery, $900,000 for loss of companionship and $900,000 for metal anguish, for a total of $1.8 million. The medical malpractice defendants against whom the [...]
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