Medical Malpractice

• Keeping a Closer Watch on Patients with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

  Dan Frith | May 18, 2008 1:30 PM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  You probably know someone who has a pacemaker or defibrillator implanted in their chest. An estimated 180,000 pacemaker devices and 91,000 implantable defibrillators were implanted in the U.S. in...

• Wrong Site Surgery

  Dan Frith | May 16, 2008 6:34 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Wrong site....Wrong patient....Wrong procedure! Anyway you cut it (pun intended)....it is bad news for the patient! Recently reviewed data in Pennsylvania shows that a near miss or actual...

• Exercise Found To Lower Rate of Breast Cancer in Women

  Dan Frith | May 15, 2008 6:21 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The results of a new study, published in a report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, indicate that exercise may reduce the risk of breast cancer for woman. Researchers looked at data from...

• Finally - A Judge Gets It!

  Dan Frith | May 13, 2008 6:18 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  Kudos to a Fulton Superior Court (Georgia) judge Marvin Arrington! Last week Judge Arrington found his state's law limiting damages in medical malpractice cases to be invalid. In 2005, the Georgia...

• Hospital Administrators Should Go To Jail For This One

  Dan Frith | May 07, 2008 3:53 PM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  I could not believe the story when I first read it. Hospital administrators failed to report a sexual assault of a patient to the police. You have got to be kidding me! Police were called to...

• Teleradiology Mistakes Can Kill You!

  Dan Frith | May 02, 2008 9:59 AM | 3 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Teleradiology, what is it? It is the electronic transmission of radiological patient images, such as x-rays, CT's and MRI's, from one location to another for the purposes of interpretation and/or...

• How Safe is Lasik Surgery?

  Dan Frith | April 28, 2008 10:49 AM | 3 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Don't you know someone who has had Lasik eye surgery? I do...multiple people and most have enjoyed improved vision as a result. We have a large ophthalmologic practice in my area and these eye...

• Patient Safety in the Hospital

  Dan Frith | April 24, 2008 6:38 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I spend a great deal of time researching and reading about the many medical mistakes and errors which occur in the hospital. One of my favorite sites on the Web is maintained by the Joint Commission...

• 18 Veterans Committ Suicide Every Day - Outrageous!

  Dan Frith | April 22, 2008 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Talk about a country that has failed its Veterans! In a stunning admission, top officials at the Veterans Health Administration confirmed that the agency’s own statistics show that an average of 126...

• Emergency Room Overcrowding Not Caused by Uninsured

  Dan Frith | April 19, 2008 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I hope you have not recently found the need to visit your local emergency room One of my family members was not so lucky she had fairly significant symptoms and waited for over 6 hours before...