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Interview with John Nelson, American Medical Association President
John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, FACOG, FACPM is an obstetrician-gynecologist from Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a long history of service to organized medicine, including serving as President of the Utah...
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A C-Section A Day Keeps the Lawsuit Away: How Defensive Medicine Harms...
The last thing doctors in some states want to treat today is a sick patient. “Sick,” for these doctors, is equivalent to “litigious.” With litigation now an unavoidable problem for many physicians,...
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California’s Struggle with Medical Malpractice: Does California’s Cap Do More...
As the American government and the medical industry move forward into the 21st century, each has been forced to confront major topics of conflict and controversy. Issues consistently reaching the front...
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Medical Lawyer or Legal Doctor? A Look into MD-JD Programs
Most directories of attorneys indicate that individuals who receive both the MD and JD degrees do not practice both professions, but rather choose to express their career interests via one discipline...
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The Cost of Health Care and the Effects of Defensive Medicine
Defensive medicine increases the cost of health care in America by an estimated $99 to $179 billion a year, or about 7 percent of total national healthcare expenditures. Turn on any news channel or...
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Medical Malpractice: How Medical Lawsuits are Won Around the World
The threat of litigation makes a large impact on certain clinical decisions: one of the major results is a clear increase in the decision to use tests like MRI/CT scans, radio-isotopes, and...
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A physician by the name of Dr. Richard Viscarello walked into the delivery room of the Maternal Fetal Care clinic in Stamford, CT on Februrary 2, 2003 to perform a routine procedure, according to a...
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Frivolous Lawsuits and How We Perceive Them
Photo credit: Peter π/FLICKR Frivolous lawsuits in the American legal system make rousing news stories and attention-grabbing headlines. They are usually health-related cases in which the plaintiff...
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