Last night I watched Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich in Changeling. I didn’t know anything about the movie when I sat down to watch it, other than that a little boy goes missing and the police…
A recent story in the Virginia-Pilot details the corner that Virginia health care consumers have been painted in: A decade after a legislative panel found that Virginia allowed dangerous doctors…
A midnight regulation pressed through by the Bush Administration stands to threaten the safety of loved ones who reside in nursing homes. I have discussed midnight regulations on three occasions,…
We are constantly inundated with the news that medical malpractice reform, and particularly caps on damages, are necessary to keep medical malpractice insurance premiums low. The argument is that…
According to the FDA a drug used to treat epilepsy, Zonegran, can cause serious heart problems: Federal health officials warned doctors Monday that a drug used in epilepsy patients can cause…
As the recession continues, it seems that we’re seeing more and more employers getting into trouble by failing to pay overtime. As times get tough for area businesses, cutting overhead by limiting…
A Dallas jury recently awarded a man $17.5 million dollars in damages after he obtained MRSA at a hospital, which his physician failed to properly treat. Despite the fact that a jury sat the though…
If you are sitting at home trying to figure out how to save your home from the black hole of our current economy, you may want to take a minute to think about how you got in this situation in the…
A Las Vegas jury recently awarded a family $2.5 million dollars after determining that a doctor failed to properly diagnose a twenty-seven year old Elisa Sanchez, a wife and mother, with colon and…
I just found out that Marvin Schur was a World War II vet. Is this how we treat our veterans? The citizens of Bay City are up in arms over the callousness shown by their City Managers. Click here…
If you read my prior post on this tragedy in Bay City, I found some updated information about how and why this happened. 1. The limiter device had been in use through DTE in Metro Detroit, but they…
This was the headline the greeted me this morning in the Traverse City Record Eagle. I assumed from the title that it was going to be a tragic story of an Alzheimer’s patient who wandered off or…
