Medical Malpractice

• Blood Clots and Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery

  Dan Frith | October 09, 2008 9:55 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  It seems that as I get older I know more and more people who have undergone hip or knee replacement surgery. I have a friend who is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement surgery...

• Smoking in Nursing Homes Can Be Fatal

  Dan Frith | August 28, 2008 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The stories are in our newspapers and on the television every year or so. A fire breaks out at a local nursing home, most likely caused by a carelessly handled cigarette, and multiple residents lose...

• Breast Cancer and Mammograms

  Dan Frith | July 02, 2008 6:41 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Almost everyone knows someone who has had a bout with breast cancer. The risk factors are fairly well known. Age - about 2 out of 3 women with invasive breast cancer are age 55 or older when the...

• 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...

• Question your Surgeon

  Dan Frith | January 13, 2008 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Are you getting ready to go under the knife...the surgical knife? If so, shouldn't you be informed about your surgeon? Many people would not think of buying a car or a new computer without asking questions...lots of questions. Why don't those same smart and informed people ask their surgeons the same types of questions?Dr. Thomas Russell, a surgeon and executive director of the American...

• Patients get a Voice

  Lauren Ellerman | October 27, 2007 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Our business has made everyone in our office, opinionated on health care. What I mean is that we are proactive - ask questions of our physicians, get second opinions, question medications, research procedures and hospitals. Some would say this is a luxury, but it shouldn't be. Patients should be in charge of their own health care.Washington Post writer Shannon Brownless reports increase in...

• Hospital ICU's: Wrong Drug...Wrong Dose...Wrong Route

  Dan Frith | March 30, 2009 8:37 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA

  What am I talking about? A newly released (multinational) report from the British Medical Journal which concludes medication errors are common in intensive care units and may result in permanent...

• U.S. Hospitals Record Record Profits in 2007

  Dan Frith | November 07, 2008 2:49 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The next time you are in a conversation about the reasonableness of hospital bills...throw out the number $43 billion. That's right... $43 billion is the amount of profit made by American hospitals...

• Screening for Colon Cancer

  Dan Frith | October 13, 2008 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. That is the bad news but the good news is that colorectal cancer can be diagnosed...

• Hospitals Can Be Dangerous To Your Health

  Dan Frith | October 07, 2008 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I know people go to hospitals when they are sick or injured. What scares me is that many patients may become sicker or suffer additional injuries while hospitalized! The 2008 Hospital Professional...