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Avoiding Medication Mistakes

September 16, 2011

The names of common prescription medications may be hard to spell as well as pronounce. How do the drug companies come up with the names of their drugs? Why can’t they make the names easy to remember and easy to spell? Why can’t the names of the drugs help to remind patients what they ar[...]

Physical Therapy Medical Malpractice

September 15, 2011

Physical therapists are health care professionals who provide essential medical care to help restore and maintain physical functioning for their patients. They accomplish their responsibilities by examining, evaluating, and diagnosing their patients’ movement, providing diagnoses regarding[...]

Can Insulin Help Alzheimer Disease Patients?

September 14, 2011

The results of a provocative study published online in the Archives of Neurology on September 12, 2011 found that administering insulin through the nose using a special medical device (transnasal delivery) improved both memory as measured by delayed story recall and functional ability as measured [...]

Why Do Doctors Hate Medical Malpractice Lawyers So Much?

September 13, 2011

Doctors and lawyers are like the Republicans and the Democrats — doctors can’t stand being in the same room with lawyers but tend to remain somewhat civil when they’re forced to be together. However, once they are amongst themselves, they tend to spew insults (or worse) towards [...]

Medical Malpractice Involving Radiologists Who Interpret Mammograms

September 12, 2011

More than two-thirds of radiologists do at least some breast imaging (mammograms are x-ray images of the breast used to evaluate for signs of breast cancer and other diseases). Studies done in 1995 and 2002 found that delay in breast cancer diagnosis had become the most common basis for medical m[...]

One Positive Lesson Learned After 9/11

September 11, 2011

September 11th, 2001 was a tragic, unsettling, and monumental event for the United States. For many families directly effected by the events of 9/11, the date is painful and permanent. For others, the change in direction for the United States after 9/11 meant major disruptive changes in their live[...]

Reporting Medical Malpractice Payments To The NPDB

September 10, 2011

The stated reasons behind the law that created the National Practitioner Data Bank were the increasing incidents of medical malpractice litigation and the need to improve the quality of medical care that became a national problem that required greater efforts than could be undertaken by the indivi[...]

Are “Bad” Doctors Responsible For Causing More Medical Malpractice?

September 9, 2011

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions is responsible for receiving reports of medical malpractice payments and adverse actions against medical providers in the United States. It maintains the National Practitioner[...]

An Analysis Of Wrong Site And Wrong Patient Surgeries

September 8, 2011

A study reported in 2010 of wrong site and wrong patient surgeries was based on an analysis of a database covering the period from January 1, 2002 to June 1, 2008 of a Colorado medical malpractice insurance company that insured approximately 6,000 physicians in Colorado. The database included [...]

Statistics Regarding Neurosurgical Medical Malpractice Claims

September 7, 2011

In a recent review of data from a large national medical malpractice insurance company regarding closed neurosurgical medical malpractice claims made between January 1, 2004 and June 30, 2009, the researchers randomly selected and reviewed 90 cases. The plaintiffs in the 90 cases reviewed involved 5[...]

FDA Updates Labeling For RECLAST

September 6, 2011

RECLAST (active ingredient zoledronic acid) is a prescription medication manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation for the treatment and prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis. On September 2, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a labeling update for Reclast to b[...]

Labor Day Musings From Medical Malpractice Lawyers Dot Com

September 5, 2011

Labor Day in the United States is a federal holiday that is observed on the first Monday in September. Labor Day celebrates the economic and the social contributions of workers in the United States. We, at medicalmalpracticelawyers.com, wish to thank each and every worker in the United States who to[...]

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