MEDICAL MALPRACTICE In the News
The Boston Globe reports on New Hampshire’s medical malpractice panels, which screen cases prior to trial and issue recommendations for resolution. The panels were created to address the high cost of medical malpractice insurance for physicians, by limiting the costs involved in opposing plaintiff’s lawsuits. Ideally, the panels are supposed to encourage early resolution, via settlement, of malpractice claims. However, New [...]
Negligence Caused Death of NY Rangers Rising Star
This is an UPDATE on my October 13, 2008 post, “Small Time Medical Care Hurts Big League Hockey.” Alexei Cherepanov, once considered a hot prospect for a future roster of our own New York Rangers, died that day when he collapsed while playing hockey in Russia, and could not receive timely medical care because no [...]
Institute of Medicine Finds More Sleep for Residents Prevents Malpractice
Today’s NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE discusses new recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) that address an old and nettlesome problem: the long hours American medical residents must work during their training, and the impact that the resulting fatigue has on patient care. In an article entitled, “Revisiting Duty-Hour Limits–IOM Recommendations for Patient Safety and [...]