Patient Safety Blog

DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog

• For sick seniors, hospitals and nursing homes can be nothing but bad news August 9, 2018
  In many parts of the developing world, families play a big part in patients’ hospital care. They not only sit for long hours with loved ones, supporting and encouraging their recovery. They also may help with direct services, bathing and cleaning patients, tending to their beds and quarters, and even assisting with their medications and […]
• Shift-and-shaft: Why is it always patients’ burden to hunt for affordable care? August 8, 2018
  The health policy wonks and those who purport to “reform” the U.S. health care system may be long on academic and other fancy credentials. But they also persist in demonstrating they can be short on old-fashioned common sense, especially about the way most of us lead our lives. That’s a point emphasized in a recent […]
• As Big Pharma rivals battled to hype opioids, watchdogs dozed. They slumber still. August 6, 2018
  When Big Pharma pursues rapacious profits and regulators snooze, patients suffer terrible consequences, as new revelations about the opioid crisis show. Kaiser Health News Service , via the Washington Post, and The New York Times both have done excellent investigative digging into drug makers’ role in fueling the prescription painkiller mess that authorities estimate claims […]
• Medical valor is on finest display as wind-whipped wildfires roar in California August 5, 2018
  When a raging wildfire — feeding off blowing winds and weeks of desiccating heat, also whipped up a freak, blazing tornado-like vortex with 140-mile-an-hour gusts and a 500-yard diameter — common sense might have dictated that affected Northern Californians should flee as fast and as far as possible. While many did, correctly heeding authorities’ emergency […]
• Pediatricians, with blast at FDA, warn of food additive and packaging risks to kids August 3, 2018
  Moms and dads who have tried to safeguard their kids’ health by emphasizing fresh fruits and vegetables in their diet may need to take yet more steps to protect youngsters from harms associated with chemicals found in common foods and their packaging. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued a formal, research-based caution to consumers […]