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Recent Posts from Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

• Medical Malpractice in Health Care Debate

  One doctor appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss his article on medical malpractice reform. He pointed out that medical malpractice is a patients’ rights issue as well as a doctor’s issue. He…

• VA Secretary orders ‘to-to-bottom’ review of troubled Marion VA Hospital

  New problems have emerged at the troubled VA Medical Center in Marion, Illinois. This has prompted Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki to order a “top-to-bottom” review of the facility. Senator Durbin and other Illinois lawmakers…

• New White Paper Tackles the Truths about Medical Negligence

  Five Myths About Medical Negligence, is one in a series of reports from the American Association for Justice on the errors and faults behind the most commonly used talking points of health care reform opponents.…

• Prevent Medical Errors by Punishing Habitual Offenders

  Patient Safety experts at Johns Hopkins are taking their prescription for avoiding medical errors at hospitals beyond the “no fault, no blame” approaches. They are now calling for penalties for doctors and nurses who fail…

• The Cost of Capping Medical Malpractice Damages

  Lately, there has been a great deal of press given to medical malpractice damage caps and the part they play in reducing health care costs. However, people forget that damage caps would result in patients…

• Problems Continue at Illinois Veteran’s Hospital

  Serious safety issues continue to plague an Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital. This comes even after major surgeries were suspended two years ago because of a spike in patient deaths. Surgeons at the medical center in…

• New Documentary Film Discusses Broken Health Care System

  A new documentary film, “Money-Driven Medicine” tackles the economic underpinnings of an American healthcare system that kills four times as many people though medical error and preventable infections as those who die in a highway…

• Where is the Accountability in Medical Malpractice?

  Patrick Malone wrote an article for the Huffington Post discussing the lack of accountability of doctors in medical malpractice. In the medical industry, a doctor will lose his or her license for only flagrant patterns…

• Checklists Can Reduce Hospital-borne Infections Dramatically

  There is a low-tech way to cut down on a deadly infection that strikes roughly 80,000 intensive-care patients in the U.S. every year. Michigan hospitals dramatically lowered rates of bloodstream infections in their patients by…

• Consumers Union Safe Patient Project will hold Live Forum Webcast

  On November 17, 2010 the Consumes Union’s Safe Patient Project (formerly Stop Hospital Infections) is holding a forum, “To Err is Human, To Delay Is Deadly,” in Washington DC. You may watch a free live…

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