Bill Leader reminded me the other day that you can access detailed information about Tennessee hospitals from the Tennessee Department of Health Website. Here is the site. There is a 40 + page PDF of information on each hospital. Here is a list of the types of data for each…
This post is part of our continuing effort to advise Tennessee lawyers about substantive law changes resulting from the actions of the General Assembly. Public Chapter 858 sets forth a procedure for helping injured workers obtain medical benefits they are entitled to receive after a judgment or settlement of a…
On June 15, 2010 I reported that SVMIC, the bedpan mutual that insures the vast majority of Tennessee doctors, reduced its rates by 23.1% . I also reported that the company declared a $20,000,000 dividend. The net effect of the dividend means that policyholders with a history of no paid claims will receive…
"Pressure Ulcers in the Surgical Patient" is a 38-page study guide prepared for health care providers prepared on behalf of Kimberly-Clark Health Care Education. Although the article focuses on pressure sores and burns that arise in the care of treatment of surgical patients, the information will be helpful to anyone…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article about a California program that helps determine if physicians who have been disciplined can start practicing again. The goal of PACE (Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program) is " to evaluate the competence of troubled doctors whose infractions range from serious medical…
Two common conditions caused by hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) killed 48,000 people and ramped up health care costs by $8.1 billion in 2006 alone, according to a study released yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Here is an excerpt from a summary of the study as reported at www.extendingthecure.com: The researchers…
Here is a list of medical sites created by from Exposing Deceptive Defense Doctors by Dorothy Sims as posted here. *www.nlm.nih.gov/ This is the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, with a great search site. * www.guidelines.gov/ This is an extremely useful website. It has hundreds of protocols…
A publication of The Doctors Company ("We were founded by doctors, for doctors.") lists 39 ways for doctors to get sued for for not diagnosing breast cancer or not properly treating it when it has been diagnosed. Here it is. An excerpt: Ways to Get Sued for Breast Cancer Involving…
IME. Independent Medical Exam. And just how independent is the so-called IME? The New York Times has looked behind the curtain in New York, and it doesn’t like what it saw. Here is an excerpt: "’If you did a truly pure report,” [the IME doctor] said later in an interview, “you’d be out…
The American College of Emergency Physicians has released a new clinical policy called "Clinical Policy: Neuroimaging and Decisionmaking in Adult Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Setting."