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Dec 8, 2012
Funny Headline

We enjoy Jay Leno’s segment of funny headlines……but haven’t seen this one yet! We really liked this one!  Hope your Saturday turns out great!

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Dec 7, 2012
Woman walks into doctors office and demands $10k

A 55 year old woman, who may be mentally disabled or just someone not too bright, walked into a doctors office in Florence, Tennessee and demanded the doctor give her $10k or she would call the authorities and claim he was defrauding Medicare. The doctor wasn’t in at the time and they told the woman […]

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Dec 5, 2012
New Study: Shortage of Primary Care Doctors

A new study that appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that we will have a major shortage of primary care doctors when we need them most:  when the boomers are retiring and the Affordable Care Act introduces a ton of patients into the system. We have been talking about this for […]

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Nov 30, 2012
Scientists in Canada create the first functioning, virtual brain

A neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo has built a virtual brain called Spaun.  (Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network) They are calling it “the world’s largest simulation of a functioning brain. According to the journal Science, Spaun can recall lists and write them down, and it can even recognize numbers.  Spaun even passes some of […]

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Nov 28, 2012
Indiana Supreme Court Rules PCF Cannot Contest Liability

On Oct. 31, the Indiana Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state’s Patient Compensation Fund (PCF)—established to cover excess damages in medical malpractice cases—may not dispute the existence or cause of a plaintiff’s injury in a case in which the medical providers previously settled the claim, admitting liability. The decision, Robertson v. B.O., has led […]

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Nov 27, 2012
New, unpublished photos show that Albert Einstein’s brain was unusual

Albert Einstein is considered by most as the greatest mind throughout human history. Of course, some may argue that Leonardo Da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton or even Nikola Tesla could top that list, but we put Einstein atop ours. In a newly published article that is based on 14 newly discovered photographs of Einstein’s brain…..we […]

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Nov 27, 2012
VIDEO: Working where the sun don’t shine

Who says that Colorectal Surgeons aren’t appreciated! You don’t get a song if you weren’t! Performed by George Bowser and Ricky Blue, a Canadian singing duo. This was played at the the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons in 1995. Some good laughs here!

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Nov 6, 2012
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Some Nevada hepatitis C lawsuits settled

side note: Here is what might be a conclusion to the flagrant medical malpractice case in Nevada where potentially hundreds of patients were exposed to hep c. A district judge Monday approved a settlement of 18 medical malpractice lawsuits stemming from the Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak. The settlement with 18 former patients of the […]

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Nov 2, 2012
Liability Risks in Suicide Cases: Insights from Almonte v. Kurl

The Rhode Island Supreme Court’s decision in Almonte v. Kurl (46 A.3d 1) was one that shed some light on the complexities of medical malpractice claims involving suicide and raised important questions about the limits of liability in cases marked by inherent unpredictability. For healthcare providers, particularly those in high-stakes settings like emergency rooms, the […]

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