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The Digital Age Turns to Medical Records

Jonathan Stone October 22, 2010 No Comments
Doctors Given 5-Year Deadline to Make All Records Electronic As part of the 2009 federal stimulus bill, funding was set aside to incentivize hospitals and doctors to buy expensive computerized…
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Accessing Medical Records

Jonathan Stone March 27, 2009 No Comments
In an increasingly mobile society, getting and transferring medical records has become a commonplace need. Public Citizen Health Research Group, www.citizen.org/hrg, correctly points out these facts about medical records: You…
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Narcotic Overdose and Other Problems

Jonathan Stone March 27, 2009 No Comments
We are frequently asked to review cases where a family suspects that their loved one may have died from a negligent overdose of painkillers (opioid narcotics, oxycodone, etc). In analyzing…
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Tobacco Settlements – Ten Years Later

Jonathan Stone January 16, 2009 No Comments
In the news on reform of the civil justice system, consumers–and their lawyers–are always depicted as the enemy, creators of all manner of ill: expensive products and loss of doctors…
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Antibiotic Overdose

Jonathan Stone January 16, 2009 No Comments
In 2007, 40 million prescriptions of fluoroquinolone antibiotics were given to US patients despite the fact that other antibiotics may be more appropriate or even unnecessary. This is no small…
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Doctor Discipline

Jonathan Stone October 25, 2007 No Comments
Being injured by medical malpractice is bad when the doctor is an established, well-respected licensed doctor; but it’s tragedy when he’s none of those things. In July of 2006, Jose…
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Is The Cerebral Palsy Research Rigged?

Jonathan Stone August 21, 2007 No Comments
(This is a re-print from another topic in this blog — Medical Research) I ask whether political (or cultural) considerations influence scientific research at the scientist level; that is, is…
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How Doctors Think

Jonathan Stone August 21, 2007 No Comments
We’ve noted before that mis-diagnosis is almost always a product of the failure of doctors to rigorously apply the differential diagnosis method taught in medical school.  A new book offers…
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Staph Superbug Infests Hospitals

Jonathan Stone July 7, 2007 No Comments
A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients.  According to a survey by Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology,…
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Questions Raised About Malpractice Insurance Company

Jonathan Stone April 19, 2007 No Comments
The state’s biggest malpractice insurer has posted its biggest profit since the 1980s, increasing pressure on the company to cut rates that have surged in the past five year. http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/mag/article.pl?article_id=27575&post_date=2007-4-14
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Hospitals Discourage C-Sections

Jonathan Stone April 19, 2007 No Comments
Nearly three in 10 U.S. mothers are giving birth by Cesarean section and more seem to be choosing a surgical birth even when there’s no clear medical need.  No one…
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Bedsores Can Be Deadly

Jonathan Stone April 19, 2007 No Comments
Bedsores create a ready opportunity for infections that may spread to the surrounding skin, deeper tissue, bone, and the blood. Bedsores are the underlying cause of death of several thousand…
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