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 […]

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 […]

Defensive medicine has become an increasingly common practice, particularly in the United States, where malpractice litigation is most common. It takes two distinct forms: avoidance and assurance. In an avoidance mode, the practitioner simply opts not to practice medicine in a field that is prone to high levels of litigation, is inherently high-risk or where […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

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 […]

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 […]