Competition For The Da Vinci Surgical System?
July 1, 2013
Robotic surgery represents the newest medical technology. The preeminent robotic surgery system, Intuitive Surgical’s proprietary da Vinci Surgical System, enables surgeons to perform delicate and complex operations through a few tiny incisions with increased vision, precision, dexterity, a[...]
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“We Have Nothing To Fear But …. Ourselves”
June 23, 2013
One of the most memorable of all of the Presidential Inaugural Addresses is from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Inaugural Address that was broadcast on March 4, 1933, when the Great Depression had reached its greatest depth, at which time President-elect Roosevelt pronounced the b[...]
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“I Have Nothing To Hide” And Other Stupid Statements
June 21, 2013
News reports in the United States have focused much attention on the federal government’s recently revealed secret programs designed to surreptitiously intercept, monitor, store, and review routine communications involving U.S. citizens. In response to the revelations, the federal governm[...]
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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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Hospital Mergers Result In Higher Patient Care Costs
June 15, 2013
There are about 5,724 hospitals in the United States presently. It is expected that about 1,000 of them will have new owners within the next seven years. In 2012, there were more than 100 hospital merger and acquisition deals (twice the number than in 2009). It will become increasing difficult for[...]
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