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Malpractice lawsuits are very common these days. Did you know that six states account for more than 50% of malpractice payouts? In a study done by Diederich Healthcare they found the top six states are; New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, Florida and California. This is why there is such an explosion of medial malpractice [...]
Improvement in medical care Even though doctors are called the “Gods in white” by many people, they do not have superhuman capacities. They are people like everybody else. The difference is that they have completed a very difficult training to become a doctor. And they have learned many things about the human body and how [...]
Today the system and laws for medical malpractice are blemished enough that can cause doctors to pay for a wrong that they haven’t done or end up in patients not getting their owed sum of money back though justified. Injustices of this kind are fairly visible all throughout and nothing else but the jurisprudence of [...]
Pundits, physicians and politicians are against those people who take help from the court of law in cases of poor quality medical treatment. The recent midterm elections have fuelled the campaigns for massive reforms. Proponents are highlighting the restrictions on malpractices in medical field so as to safeguard against constantly increasing medical costs and also [...]
In hospitals and nursing homes nationwide, events, mistakes and errors that should have never happened are known as “never events.” The National Quality Forum (NQF), a nonprofit organization whose goal is to develop strategies to effectively measure healthcare quality in the country, has coined the term to raise public awareness about the frequency and severity [...]
Readers respond to a recent Op-Ed.
Ronen Avraham Op-Ed article says federally-mandated guidelines must be improved before they can be used in Pres Obama’s plan for medical malpractice reform; agrees that doctors should be immune from prosecution while following optimal guidelines, but insists such guidelines can only be produced by groups that are not dependent upon financing from interested parties, and who bear responsibility for results of their work
We need to make sure the guidelines given to doctors are good before using them in a plan for medical malpractice reform.
We need to make sure the guidelines given to doctors are good before using them in a plan for medical malpractice reform.
New York hospitals are pushing to cap the awards in the hopes that savings on premiums will offset expected large cuts in Medicaid spending.
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