How Can I Avoid Being Injured While In The Hospital?
February 18, 2025
Johns Hopkins Medicine provides the following suggestions for staying safe while in the hospital: Prepare an information kit. You should prepare a kit – even if you don’t plan to go to the hospital anytime soon. The kit can be similar to the suitcase that pregnant women are encouraged to hav[...]
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Why Won’t My Doctor Listen To Me?
February 17, 2025
As an experiment, we used AI to ask the question “Why Won’t My Doctor Listen To Me?” and the following is the response we received. A doctor might not seem to be listening to you for a variety of reasons, including time constraints, communication style differences, not fully u[...]
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Unlawful Nursing Home Debt Collection Practices
February 14, 2025
In 1987, Congress passed the federal Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA) in response to public attention and a study from the Institute of Medicine. Among other things, the NHRA bans third-party financial guarantees as a condition of a resident’s admission or continued stay in a nursing home. Specifica[...]
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Sepsis Malpractice
February 13, 2025
According to the CDC: What is sepsis? Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection. It is a life-threatening medical emergency. Sepsis happens when an infection you already have triggers a chain reaction throughout your body. Infections that lead to sepsis most often start in the: Wit[...]
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Can My Doctor Fire Me?
January 21, 2025
The short answer is “yes,” a doctor may terminate a patient-physician relationship. The American Medical Association has addressed the proper patient-physician termination process in its Code of Medical Ethics: AMA Code of Medical Ethics 1.1.5 Terminating a Patient-Physician Relationship[...]
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$11 Million Dental Malpractice Verdict In Pennsylvania
January 19, 2025
On February 22, 2024, a Lancaster Pennsylvania dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in the total amount of $11 million against the defendant dentist who allegedly failed to investigate a sore on a patient’s tongue that was cancerous. The dental malpractice jury’s award included $[...]
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