White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease
November 7, 2013
It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]
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Nurse Practitioner Malpractice Statistics
October 5, 2013
A large medical malpractice insurance company recently studied 1,800 reported adverse incidents and claims involving nurse practitioners that were closed between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2011 and subsequently reviewed and analyzed 200 of the claims against nurse practitioners that re[...]
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New Lyme Disease Statistics (2013)
September 4, 2013
The CDC reported on August 19, 2013 that preliminary estimates indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000, based on findings from three ongoing CDC studies that use different methods. The first study analyzes medical claims information for ap[...]
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A-Rod’s Possible Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
August 30, 2013
It was reported last week that lawyers for New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) are preparing a medical malpractice lawsuit on his behalf against the Yankees’ team doctor, Christopher Ahmad, arising out of an incident that occurred in October 2012, when the Yankees were[...]
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Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cancer Misdiagnosis
June 20, 2013
On June 13, 2013, a Maine medical malpractice jury awarded a now 47-year-old man $200,000 for his severe emotional trauma due to his physician misdiagnosing his cancer as a much more aggressive form of pancreatic cancer (stage 4) rather than the more treatable non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that he ac[...]
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Psychiatrist Malpractice Involving “Spiritual Diagnosis”
May 16, 2013
By Consent Order dated May 8, 2013, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine indefinitely suspended the medical license of a Massachusetts Board-certified psychiatrist by “engaging in conduct that places into question the [psychiatrist’s] competence to practice medicine,̶[...]
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