Kevin MD reports on the idea of drive-through emergency rooms. Stanford Hospital & Clinics has turned the first floor of a parking garage into a drive-through emergency room. This sounds completely stupid and insane. And then you think about it a little more and it is not so crazy. The…
Two Texas nurses have been charged criminally with reporting a doctor to the Texas Medical Board. I’ll bet you $10 the charges are dropped once the Winkler County District Attorney wakes up. (Is this an elected post?) But the chilling effect that will flow all the way to Maryland will…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has overturned both the trial court and an intermediate appeals court, reversing one of the largest medical malpractice suit verdicts in New Jersey, a whopping $75,967,140 (which the trial court had reduced to $70,891,781.59). The facts of this case, regardless of whether medical malpractice was…
Wisconsin has a really dumb medical malpractice law. Non-dependent children or their parents are not allowed to file a medical malpractice lawsuit for a death claim that results from a medical error. There is now a move afoot in the Wisconsin legislature to make for a more fair wrongful death…
I provided my thoughts on Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on Friday on Public Citizen’s recent report on medical malpractice and its impact on health care costs. The short answer: not much. But Public Citizen provided one more malpractice statistic that is worth mentioning. In an hour, chances are that five…
Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed into law a bill making it more difficult to bring medical malpractice lawsuits in the state. Republican supporters of the bill said it will help attract doctors to the state. Opponents argue that the measure threatens the ability of malpractice victims to recover…
The Arizona Star reports that the Arizona legislature is considering a law that would – to put it lightly – make it more difficult for medical malpractice lawyers to recover compensation in medical malpractice cases for their clients. Under the proposed bill, the plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases would be…
Point of Law suggests that medical malpractice lawyers and their lobbyists are behind the often cited Institute of Medicine’s report that medical malpractice kills 100,000 people a year. Who knows? How do you argue the methodology without digging through the methodology? I just don’t know. But it is important to…
President Obama’s mad dash for health care reform – which I think is a good thing – might lead him to take a position on medical malpractice reform that puts him in direct conflict with medical malpractice lawyers who have been major donors to President Obama and the Democratic Party.…
A Beaumont, Texas man has filed a medical malpractice suit against a local doctor, alleging a needle negligently left inside his body during surgery perforated his bladder. According to the suit filed in Jefferson County District Court, the doctor – a long time general surgeon in Beaumont – failed to…