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Monthly Archives: June 2010
June 8, 2010
Massachusetts Teaching Hospitals May Commit More Medication Errors In July
According to a recent article published in the Journal Of General Internal Medicine, fatal medication errors spike by ten percent during the month of July, part of the so-called “July effect.” The journal article, which drew upon data from 1979-2006, finds a statistically significant increase in the number of fatal medication errors during the month [...]
Posted in Medical Malpractice
June 7, 2010
Supreme Lawyers? Supreme Judges?
One of my favorite recurring features on Eric Turkewitz’ New York Personal Injury Law Blog is his vetting of Supreme Court nominees. During the underwhelming Sotomayor nomination, he sniffed out some ethical issues about the billing of her firm as “Sotomayor & Associates,” when there were, in fact, no associates. (You’ve got to wonder what [...]
Posted in Trial Lawyers
June 5, 2010
More Intellectual Dishonesty (And Callousness) From The Tort Reform Crowd
I’ve blogged previously about how misleading some of the blog posts on tort reform websites are – how their synopses of cases get it all wrong. This is doubly true when you see a link roundup of cases on one of these websites – one sentence summaries of cases followed by links. The latest instance [...]
Posted in Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
June 3, 2010
New Research Shows More Children Are Swallowing Tiny “Button Batteries”
Two new research articles published in the research journal Pediatrics are drawing attention to an unintended consequence of advances in battery technology: more children are swallowing the batteries as the batteries grow smaller. The journal articles published in Pediatrics reveal a sevenfold increase in the number of children who ingested batteries between 1985 and 2009. [...]
