Treating Diabetes with Herbal Medicine?
Following a high profile malpractice case, DiabetesMine explores when and how it is safe and effective to use herbs and supplements to treat diabetes. (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - March 19, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Greg Brown Source Type: blogs
11 Million Lies: The Tobacco Control Movement is Committing Public Health Malpractice by Misrepresenting the Health Effects of Vaping
My colleagues and I in the tobacco control movement have based our entire careers on the principle that it is wrong to lie to the public. The bulk of our campaign against Big Tobacco was based on the contention that the cigarette companies lied to the public about the health risks of smoking. Numerous lawsuits were filed against Big Tobacco, seeking damages based on the claim that the companies are responsible because they misrepresented the health effects of their products, thus preventing smokers from making an informed choice. The name of the major youth anti-tobacco campaign is called " Truth. " Clearly, honesty is the...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - March 17, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
What do the Challenger disaster and medicine have in common?
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff, resulting in the death of the entire seven-person crew. The subsequent investigation revealed that a joint in the right solid rocket booster failed during liftoff, which occurred due to the inadequacy of the O-ring seals. It was about 28-degrees on the morning of […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/shannon-casey" rel="tag" > Shannon Casey, PA-C < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
A.I. Will Enable You To Find Purpose In Life Instead Of Just Flipping Burgers All Day
The menace of automation replacing jobs How life will look like within 15-20 years Getting used to robots Humanity’s existential crisis Working on the human-A.I. relationship Which medical specialty to chose? A.I. systems and empathy A worst-case scenario for the future Fighting against dystopian threats
Automation has the potential to uproot every part of our social system, and artificial intelligence will get into a territory that no human creation dared ever before: the capacity to know. There are plenty of ways how the transformation before us could go down, but it mostly depends on the human ability to adapt...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Great Thinkers AI artificial intelligence automation coding empathy future future of work futurism futurist robotics technology VR Source Type: blogs
Jahi McMath Dismisses Her Federal Lawsuit
The family of Jahi McMath dismissed their state medical malpractice lawsuit in September 2018.
After Jahi's death on circulatory criteria, the value of the case dropped to within settlement range.
But the family had continued their federal lawsui... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 16, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
HIPAA RFI Comments: Patient Privacy Rights
By ADRIAN GROPPER and DEBORAH C. PEEL
Adrian Gropper
Deborah C. Peele
Among other rich nations, US healthcare stands out as both exceptionally privatized and exceptionally expensive. And taken overall, we have the worst health outcomes among the Western Democracies.
On one hand, regulators are reluctant to limit private corporate action lest we reduce innovation and patient choice and promote moral hazards. On the other hand, a privatized marketplace for services requires transparency of costs and quality and a minimum of economic externalities that privatize profit and socialize costs.
For over two decades, the HIPAA law...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Value-Based Care Adrian Gropper Deborah C Peel federal regulations Health Data HIPAA Source Type: blogs
New Study: Medicare ’s Readmission Penalties May Be Killing Patients
By KIP SULLIVAN JD
On the morning of December 21, I opened my copy of the New York Times to find an op-ed that said almost exactly what I had said in a two-part article The Health Care Blog posted two weeks earlier. The op-ed criticized the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), one of dozens of “value-based payment” programs imposed on the Medicare fee-for-service program by the Affordable Care Act. The HRRP punishes hospitals if their rate of readmissions within 30 days following discharge exceeds the national average. The subtitle of the op-ed was, “A well-intentioned program created by the Affordable ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Medicare Politics CMS Congress Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Kip Sullivan MedPAC value-based care Source Type: blogs
A patient sues when a DNR is ignored
A New Mexico woman, suffering from Dercum ’s disease (adiposis dolorosa) which causes painful fatty tumors, is suing a Santa Fe hospital and an emergency physician claiming she was the victim of two negligent acts in 2016. One, according to the Albuquerque Journal, she told hospital personnel she was allergic to Dilaudid but went into ca rdiac arrest […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 23, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/skeptical-scalpel" rel="tag" > Skeptical Scalpel, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Cardiology Emergency Medicine Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Mission-Hostile Hospital Management: Quieter, but Still Pernicious After All These Years
Hospitals exist to take care of sick people, with the goal of making them better. Hospitals employ and work with health care professionals, again who are sworn to put taking care of patients ahead of all other concerns.However, since we foundedHealth Care Renewal, we have noted striking examples of hospital leaders threatening their hospitals ' fundamental mission and/or health care professionals ' core values, which we dubbedmission-hostile management. We also saw mission-hostile management affecting the broader health care industry, particularly pharmaceutical and device companies. Most recently, the mo...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 10, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: hospitals imperial CEO managerialism mission-hostile management perverse incentives Source Type: blogs
A proximate cause of wrongful death
An excerpt from Wrongful Deaths. “We will name Memorial Hospital, Dr. Julie Stone, Dr. Vijay Gupta, and ICU nurse Tracy Miller in a malpractice suit involving the wrongful death of Ivy Jackson.” Venjer appeared apologetic. “But Dr. Torrins is correct. It is early, and we will pursue all the facts and revisi t our plans in due […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 27, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/tom-combs" rel="tag" > Tom Combs, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Malpractice OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Wrongful Living – Noncompliance with Advance Directives
Fredrick E. Vars and Alberto Lopez at the University of Alabama School of Law have posted a copy of their article forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review: "Wrongful Living."
"Executing an advance directive that specifies a patient’s wishes regarding end-of-life medical care is an exercise of self-determination – a conscious choice about the degree and type of medical intervention one wishes to receive under end-of-life circumstances."
"Empirical studies, however, consistently report that healthcare professionals fail to comply with advance directives; violations of a patient’s interest in self-determination ar...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 16, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Texas Court of Appeals Green Lights Lawsuit on Unwanted Medical Treatment
Every year, millions of Americans receive unwanted medical treatment (UMT). Most have no legal remedy for two reasons.
First, many are not harmed seriously enough (usually $250,000 or more) to warrant the high transaction costs of medical malpractice litigation. Second, while these patients may have preferred to not have the therapy in question, a reasonable patient would probably have consented to the therapy had they been clearly asked.
In the typical case, the patient consents to the treatment but lacks an adequate understanding of what the treatment entails. But in some cases, the patient does not consent at all....
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 5, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Jahi McMath Continues Federal Lawsuit Against State of California
While the family of Jahi McMath has settled their state court medical malpractice lawsuit, they plan to continue with their federal civil rights lawsuit.
In a new filing this week, the family contends "that the State Court Action did not adjudicate the issue in the current matter and that the two separate death certificates create an issue regarding Jahi McMath’s correct date of death."
In response, the State of California contends "that as Jahi McMath presently satisfies the criteria for brain death under California Health and Safety Code section 7180, this case is now moot." (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 2, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
A bad outcome changed this physician ’s life
I ’m struggling — truly struggling. This year has been beyond hard. I honestly never thought this time last year that I would be in this predicament. Things were good, I had a great job, and I was working on our fixing up our dream retirement home. We had great vacations every year. Yes, the home […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 31, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > Tags: Physician Malpractice Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
