News tagged with 'Doctors'

Georgetown University discussed the potential for a conflict-of-interest between doctors and pharmaceutical companies that partially fund continuing-education for doctors.

California has collected over $2 million in fines from hospitals that have made medical errors which kill up to 200,000 patients every year nationally. The latest fines have been issued to 13 hospitals.

A man tried to get his medical records after suing a surgeon for medical malpractice and was told by the Tampa hospital to expect a bill for a million dollars, a retrieval fee.

With medical costs soaring at an unsustainable level, President Obama told doctors at an annual AMA meeting that cutting down on practicing defensive medicine to avoid lawsuits will be necessary.  The president does not support medical malpractice caps on awards.  

Hospitals and doctors turn to a basic of human compassion - saying I'm sorry -  when they make a medical mistake to lower the costs associated with litigation.  About five percent of doctors in the U.S. are responsible for about 54 percent of all malpractice, according to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

A study presented at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in San Diego looked at whether doctors subconsciously prefer white patients over black patients, which could explain some racial health disparities.

Empathy is important in patient-physician communication that cannot be taught in school, that many doctors seem to lack even when their patient’s seem to ask for it, according to a recent study.

Internal medicine is the specialty of last choice among medical students a survey of more than 1,000 finds. Money is the reason. Internists make the least, while specialists can collect a seven-figure salary. Expect the income gap to lead to a health care "crisis" as fewer doctors try to see a doubling of the patient population by 2030.

A Medicare bill opposed by the White House won final congressional approval on Wednesday, with the help of Sen. Edward Kennedy who returned to the Senate for the first time since having brain surgery.

While U.S. drug companies take in billions annually, they usually try to start early to influence doctors-in-training. Two groups want to stop that practice and restore faith in medicine for people, so are shining the light on medical schools and their conflict of interest policies.

Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington are suing the makers of the drug Heparin, accidentally given in a massive dose to their two-week old newborn twins by personnel at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.  Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace were given 10,000 units of the Heparin November 18th. They were supposed to receive 10 units of the blood thinner given in an IV to avoid blood clots. 

A startling new study conducted by researchers with RAND Health suggests doctors may not be providing full-time adequate healthcare. Appearing in the June 26th issue of New England Journal of Medicine , the study involved 7,528 adults who granted access to their medical records and participated in a comprehensive tel

Doctor error may be the cause of nearly 500,000 preventable drug side effects each year in non-hospitalized elderly patients, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Boston's Brigham

Researchers investigating the frequency of medical errors during surgical operations discovered that surgery tools are left inside about 1,500 patients every year. The study, conducted by examiners at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, analyzed insurance records from 800,000 ope

A California jury awarded $4.5 million last week to the family of a Tulare County man who died due to medical malpractice. Judy Staley and her two children filed the lawsuit against Dr. Parmod Kumar in connection with Stan Staley's death. According to the plaintiffs, on June 13, 2000, Kumar performed an unnecessary e