Verdicts Chemical Burn: Baby in Intensive Care Unit R.G. v. Georgetown University Hospital: $3.6 million verdict in District of Columbia Superior Court for a child who at age two weeks suffered a bad chemical burn from an intravenous (i.v.) line in a vein in her ankle, while in newborn intensive care for her premature birth…..
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Resistance to Vaccinations Spawns Outbreak of Measles
We’ve been among the consistent voices decrying the anti-vaccination movement, a misguided, misinformed, willfully ignorant campaign to encourage people not to immunize themselves or their children against widely recognized threats to public health. A story published last week by KaiserHealthNews.org and The Texas Tribune perfectly illustrates the consequences of this stupefying resistance to solid science….
Continue ReadingA Good Sign of a Doctor to Avoid
Web sites are proliferating that offer candid — sometimes brutally so — reviews by patients of doctors. The sites include Angie’s List, RateMDs, Yelp, DrScore and Vitals.com. Now some doctors burned by reviews are striking back. A growing number of them are asking new patients to sign up-front agreements promising not to post anything about….
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