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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[...]

“MML Rants And Raves” – Prologue

April 10, 2011

Medical Malpractice Lawyers dot com begins a periodic and continuing theme within this blog entitled “MML Rants and Raves” that will address and discuss many issues and topics, both positive and negative, that arise in the medical field and with regard to the provision of medical servi[...]

What Effect Do Lawsuits Have On Nursing Home Care (And Does It Matter)?

April 9, 2011

The results of a recent study appearing in the March 31, 2011 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine reviewed information provided by five large nursing home chains on claims filed against them between 1998 and 2006, which involved 4,716 claims against 1,465 nursing homes (a claim was defin[...]

U.S. Economy Lost Billions Due To Medical Errors in 2008

April 8, 2011

A study by the Society of Actuaries in 2010 estimated that the cost to the U.S. economy in 2008 for medical errors was approximately $19.5 billion. About 25% of the costs associated with medical injuries were the result of avoidable medical errors. In 2008, there were 6.3 million medical injuries o[...]

Mesothelioma And Asbestos Exposure

April 7, 2011

Many people have heard the strange name of the deadly disease known as mesothelioma, but what is it and how do you get it? Malignant mesothelioma is often referred to simply as mesothelioma, which is a rare and fatal form of cancer found in the sac lining the chest (the pleura) or the abdomen (th[...]

U.S. Statistics Regarding Physicians

April 6, 2011

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2009, there were 921,900 medical doctors in the United States during 2006 (an increase from 813,800 in 2000), of which 560,400 were based in offices. 665,600 were men and 256,300 were women. 685,200 had graduate[...]

U.S. Statistics For Organ Transplants

April 5, 2011

As medicine and medical techniques have advanced over the years, organ transplants in the United States have generally increased in number and complexity. Whereas only 203 lung transplants were performed in 1990, 1,469 were performed in 2007 (2006 one-year survival rate: 82.4%). 2,631 liver transpla[...]

Avoid Misdiagnosis Of Skin Cancer By Preventing It

April 4, 2011

Now that it’s Spring and Summer is just around the corner, we should all be concerned about sun exposure and skin cancer. About 1.3 million people are diagnosed with various forms of skin cancer in the United States every year. One of the mostly deadly forms of skin cancer is melanoma. There [...]

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