Medical Malpractice

The contemporary health care industry is making substantial efforts to deliver quality care and increasing credentials driven by competition among the organizations. The main objective is to deliver effective health care service proposes to build the management and leadership capacity of health care managers and practitioners. There are many criteria...

As we are all aware, over the last few decades expanding theories of liability and the proliferation of litigation has given increased emphasis to Asset Protection Planning to the extent that it is now a well recognized area of practice. However, traditional Estate Planning has always encompassed the concepts of asset preservation and protection....

Each day children in the United States are hurt in a range of accidents that result in different types of severe injuries. To make matters worse, many of these injuries could have been prevented if a responsible adult had been adequately monitoring the children to ensure proper safety was being used.The number one cause of death in children over...

Resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) is a method used to determine how much money medical providers should be paid by Medicare and health plans. Medicare, under the Reagan administration, initiated in 1985 the development of a new, fair and a more transparent fee schedule. This led to a large study, jointly conducted by researchers at Harvard...

So... what's at the core of our healthcare mess? The doctors and hospitals overcharging? Insurance companies stealing from everyone? Pharmaceutical companies paying-off Senators to allow the continuance of obscene pricing? Medical device manufacturers creating margins of a million percent? The government's ineptitude at administering the Medicare...

Many men are a bit hesitant to get moving immediately right towards doing hand exercises and so they do substantial research before they begin to gather as much information as possible. But, one of the first things that they need to know right after they realize that these are 100% real is if they will experience any pain doing them.A lot of guys...

Personal Injury is one of the broadest subjects of civil law. It can include anybody from individuals to big companies. An injury in the law's point of view is not similar to what a medical doctor might think. Personal injury lawsuits can be divided into cases of negligence and intentional acts.Negligence is the term used when the individual...

The complex U.S. legal system requires attorneys to work exclusively in specific aspects of the law. Lawyers, who specialize in trying cases, are the most financially successful. This group has an unsavory reputation for good reason. The tort lawyer lobby is powerful in Washington, DC because it donates more money than any other campaign contributor...

Wouldn't it be good if you could just massage in wrinkle cream as they do on those wonderful commercials we all see and all your lines and wrinkles start to fade away? Well unfortunately it just isn't as simple as that and even those products that do seem to achieve a positive outcome can really only have a limited amount of successYou are just...

As families begin to confront the decisions involved in how to best care for a loved one who no longer is able to live alone, who requires assistance with daily living, or requires medical care, family relationships are becoming increasingly strained. According to Susan Butterwick, Esq, Directing Attorney for caregiver mediation projects for the...

As a cardiac surgeon, along with other prominent physicians labeled "opinion makers," we insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter, of course, we physicians insisted would...

Today's nurse is not yesterday's nurse. We are still caregivers, but through the years we have evolved into leaders, not followers. We still take orders, but today we have the ability to question these orders and the professional responsibility to assess and evaluate them. We no longer receive an assignment and spend the next eight hours doing...

This article is one of a series, collectively titled "The Dirty Dozen: Mistakes That Could Ruin Your Business." Making these mistakes can be very costly in both time and money, but all of these possible mistakes can be easily avoided by some advance knowledge and planning ahead. Although I think the information in this series of articles can be...

Most people with health insurance, especially employer paid health insurance, really don't know what their health care costs are. Furthermore, in many cases, they are limited in which health providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies etc) they can use.Most people are locked into a network of doctors. They know what the co-pay is, but have no idea...

In any given year, more than 10 million people, most aged 65 or older, are in the long-term care of assisted living or nursing home facilities in the United States. For their families, that means considerable 'out of pocket' expenses must be dedicated to the cost of assisted living. In fact, some estimates suggest that over 75% of those expenses...

In today's fast paced society, people are always looking for fast, easy solutions to their problems. The medical field has become the center of quick fix solutions. Everybody is searching for a magic pill to cure their ailment.Weight loss is no exception to that rule. People are looking for a pill they can take at bedtime and wake up a "super...

Surgery isn't the first or even the last thing that comes to mind when you think tourism and vice versa. As misnomered as it may sound, surgical tourism is what is happening in the health care industry today. Surgical tourism, also known as medical tourism, medical travel, health travel and health tourism, is traveling abroad for surgery.So why...

If you are considering LASIK eye surgery it is vital that you find a well qualified surgeon that you are comfortable working with. You need to be confident that they have the skills necessary to do a good job. You don't want to take unnecessary risk with your eyes. Make sure you do your own research as well when it comes to a LASIK surgeon.Look...

Not every plastic surgeon is responsible, which may be surprising considering that even though their trade is mostly cosmetic there are the same medical risks that would be associated with any procedure. Irresponsibility seems all the more rampant when large amounts of money are involved. Just take a look at any of the tabloids and you'll witness...

A study has shown that nearly 70% of the people do not bother to fight for compensation cases for personal injuries, even if they are entitled to it. Many times, individuals find themselves victims to any of the following circumstances. A person can be involved in physical injuries such as automobile accidents, or be a victim of discrimination,...

We spend 2-3 times as much on our healthcare as most of the countries that now have "socialized medicine". Yet, every country with socialized medicine has much better overall health statistics. As a matter fact, we are hovering around 32nd in the world. Even some "third world" countries are ahead of us.How can this be? The richest country...

There are specific types of claims for personal injury where it is essential that you are assisted by Sacramento personal injury attorneys. Claims involving severe and serious injuries, toxic chemical or substance exposure and malpractice are best handled by a professional Sacramento personal injury attorney. You are in a better position if you...

Over the last good many years as the industrial medical complex has been blowing up its bubble, I've been observing people complaining about their pains, ailments, and worries about their healthcare. Really all this negative talk is making things much worse for them psychologically. It's as if half our population has turned into a bunch of hypochondriacs.As...

In today's high technology environment, organizations are becoming increasingly dependent upon their information systems. Information is widely regarded as the life blood of the modern enterprise. And, consequently, the security controls surrounding these systems are becoming the differentiating factor in customer choice. With data being held...