Valleywide Legal Blog
Nurses Get The Short End Of The Stick.
It is never easy to be a nurse serving on the front lines of health care delivery. Nurses know this. Perhaps you have seen the stories about the number of nurses leaving the profession. The reasons for their leaving are … Read More
Doctors Need Help, Cue the Robots
One of the most fertile fields for malpractice is the humble diagnosis. Errors in diagnosis lead doctors down the wrong path and result in either no treatment for a serious condition or a delay in treatment. The best available evidence … Read More
Posted in Doctors, electronic medical records, General Health, health, medical charts, medical errors, Medical Malpractice, medical mistakes, Medication Errors, Misdiagnosis, science news | State Legislatures Are Making Your Health Care Less Safe
As anyone who reads this blog knows, I am not a big fan of state medical boards. My complaint is that there is a lot of malpractice out there and the medical boards do not do an effective job of … Read More
Our Broken Health Care Delivery System.
Next time you are visiting someone at the hospital and have a few minutes to spare, take a drive through the doctor’s parking lot. If you live in a major metropolitan area, you will see luxury car after luxury car. … Read More
Posted in Doctors, drug companies, Fee for Service, General Health, health, Health Care Costs, Health Insurers, Hospitals, Medical Costs, medical ethics, Medicare, Obesity, Secrecy | Some Helpful Medicare Enrollment Information.
It is only early November and I am already sick to death of the advertisements trying to get me to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan and I still have a month go before the open enrollment period ends. Every … Read More
Developments in Type 1 Diabetes.
Nine years in and counting. It has been nine years since my then 3 year old grandson was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. At the time of his diagnosis, I assured his anxious parents that relief was on the horizon. … Read More
Thanks to Health Insurance Health Care Is Getting Worse.
In the United States, we already pay more than any other developed nation for health care, but have poorer outcomes in major categories of care, such as infant mortality, life expectancy, obesity levels and rate of suicide, just to name … Read More
Read, Read, Read.
If you have a mobile device or have been on line for almost any reason, you have surely been confronted with a lengthy statement outlining the terms of your use of the whatever-it-is. In order to use the whatever-it-is, you … Read More
New Hope For Pancreatic Cancer Patients
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer afflicting human beings. 85% of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will live less than five years following their diagnosis. Looking at it another way, although only 3% of all … Read More
Women With Heart Disease Just Can’t Catch A Break.
Women get the short end of the stick in a lot of areas of life. Health care is one of them. Heart disease, the leading cause of death in men and women in the United States today, does not present … Read More
Posted in Doctors, health, heart attack, Heart Attacks, Hospitals, Lawsuits, medical errors, Medical Malpractice, medical mistakes, Misdiagnosis, Obesity | 
