Valleywide Legal Blog

Hospital Secrecy

Hospitals are big business.  While many may be non-profit corporations, they make lots and lots of money and they definitely do not want you to know how they do it or how to protect yourself from being overcharged. Hospitals chains, … Read More

Posted in Doctors, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Health Insurers, Hospitals, Medical Costs, medical ethics, Medicare, Secrecy |

Physician Conflicts of Interest

One of the very first of the ethical rules promulgated by the American Medical Association requires doctors to place the welfare of the patient ahead of the doctor’s own self-interest or obligations to others.  As life grows ever more complicated, … Read More

Posted in Doctors, drug companies, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Informed Consent, Medical Devices, medical ethics, medical research, PODS, Secrecy |

The Malpracticing Surgeon

While it often takes a while, state medical boards usually catch up with surgeons who are so incompetent they keep killing and seriously injuring their patients.  Unfortunately, it takes a pretty bad record to get a doctor suspended or to … Read More

Posted in Doctors, Lawsuits, medical errors, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, Secrecy, Surgical Errors |

Consolidation Threatens Doctor Independence.

If you are not concerned about consolidation in the delivery of medical services, you should be.  We like to think of the medical profession as individual providers who care about us and also care for us.  We like to think … Read More

Posted in Doctors, Fee for Service, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Medical Costs, medical ethics, Medicare, Secrecy |

Improving Hospital Care

Anyone who has ever been a hospital patient or who has had a loved one in the hospital has seen errors in care.  They occur on almost a daily basis and they come in all shapes and sizes.  Modern medical … Read More

Posted in Arizona Medical Board, disclosure of medical mistakes, Doctors, Hospital Negligence, Hospitals, Lawsuits, medical errors, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice claims, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, Nurses, Secrecy, Surgical Errors |

Passing the Malpractice Buck in Florida

By 2004, Florida voters had had enough.  They passed a constitutional amendment to stop bad doctors from continuing to malpractice.  The idea was a simple one:  If there there three instances of malpractice, a doctor would not be allowed to … Read More

Posted in Doctors, Lawsuits, medical errors, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice cases, medical malpractice lawsuits, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, Secrecy, Surgical Errors, Verdicts |

Generic Drug Betrayal

The promise of generic drugs is enticing:  quality replacements for name-brand drugs at a fraction of the price.  Regardless of whether that promise was ever anything more than an illusion, it is a proven lie today. I read two recent … Read More

Posted in drug companies, Fraud, health, Health Care Costs, Lawsuits, Medical Costs, medical ethics, Secrecy |

Secrecy and More Secrecy

I swear it is not just me.  While I have been concerned about the effects of secrecy in health care and malpractice litigation for some time, the news lately is just full of stories about patients being kept in the … Read More

Posted in antibiotic resistant bacteria, Arizona Medical Board, Defensive Medicine, disclosure of medical mistakes, Doctors, Hospital Negligence, Hospitals, Infection, Lawsuits, medical errors, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice claims, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, Medicare, Secrecy |

Secrecy Plus The Desire For Profits Equals Patient Deaths

Over the years I have discussed a number of topics which relate to patient safety.  These include secrecy, money, training, medical ethics, and surgical experience.  Every once in a while a story comes along which touches on all of these … Read More

Posted in Doctors, Hospital Negligence, Hospitals, Medical Malpractice, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, Medicare, Secrecy, Surgical Errors |

The Bad Doctor Problem.

What happens to bad doctors?  By bad doctor I mean those who malpractice over and over.  Turns out that a lot of them are still out there malpracticing. A recent article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine looked … Read More

Posted in Arizona Medical Board, disclosure of medical mistakes, Doctors, Hospitals, medical errors, medical ethics, Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice claims, medical malpractice lawyers, medical mistakes, Medical Negligence, Secrecy |