Senate’s Ugly Christmas Present; The Frankenstein Healthcare Reform
The U.S. Senate is very busy congratulating itself, slapping each other on the back for the Christmas present that they rushed through to give this nation. Let’s go ahead and open that gift. The little tag says: TO: The American People FROM: Your Elected Representatives … Read more
Electronic Records and Malpractice Risks
Will electronic records raise the legal standard of care and increase malpractice risk? Originally published in HCPLive.com by Robert J. Mintz, JD As EHRs are widely adopted and the quantity of information about a patient expands dramatically, does provider liability increase even if the quality … Read more
Court Says Don’t Sleep With Your Patient
This is one case you’d prefer not to have to defend in court. In Thierfelder v. Wolfert, Pennsylvania Supreme Court answered the question of whether medical malpractice occurs when a doctor has an extramarital sexual affair with a patient he is treating for anxiety and … Read more
Urgent Call for Action Against Proposed BoTax
The Botax is far more expansive and reaching than just 5% on Botox enhancements! The tax would also be imposed on products such as includes wrinkle fillers and teeth whitening. (Colgate, are you listening?) More serious things like prophylactic mastectomy, male breast reduction and rhinoplasty, are just a few of the procedures paid for out of the patient’s pocket, and susceptible to this tax. A patient’s health and well-being go far beyond a pulse and respiration. Self-image concerns like these are not a luxury. They are essential to a whole, healthy human being!
Senate Rejects Caps on Attorney’s Fees, Snubs Healthcare Reform
Since when have defense lawyers been found gouging or taking a contingency? Talk about frivolous excuses!
Defining Frivolous Lawsuits
Let’s be sure we know what the term means and use it appropriately. Otherwise, it quickly becomes an empty buzzword meaning no more than “something I don’t like.”
Should you worry that patients will use the Web to grade you?
OBG Management December 2009 – Volume 21 – Issue 12 – p 21, 22, 23, 27, 28 By: Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, FACS Michael Sacopulos, JD Download OBGManagement_Dec2009
With 60 Votes, Senate Poised to Talk About Healthcare Reform
When someone harasses a physician (or his insurance) into paying an unwarranted medical malpractice claim, who do you think must pay? The doctor? His insurance? Would that it were so! We ALL pay for that fraud. Every one of us absorbs the costs, down to the penny.
Lincoln, Healthcare and the Antebellum Lawsuit Problem
SurgiStrategies Magazine By: Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, FACS November 23, 2009 Click here to read the full article
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Reform
After the last election, when this nation began discussing “The Issues”, the Vice-President-elect asked us to gather in groups all across the country to discuss the things we were most concerned with, and what solutions we might have for those problems. Needless to say, healthcare … Read more
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