Monthly Archives: November 2011

Continuing his Opinionator series on ways to reduce health care spending, Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel points out that each year administrative costs account for $360 billion of our health care spending, roughly fourteen percent of our health care tab. The administrative costs of our health care system dwarf the amount we spend on all aspects of [...]

…Which is why, oftentimes, I will see a quite bloggable story but not get around to blogging it. By the time I do have a spare moment to sit down and pen (er, keyboard) a blog post about the story, the story’s expiration date will often be up, leaving me no choice but to pass [...]

….and his lab coat too. We’ve known for a couple decades now that doctors’ clothing are big germ carriers. Experts recommend that doctors wear shortsleeves to avoid spreading germs. But a short-sleeved, tie-liess doctor does not convey to people a very professional image. A doctor’s dress plays a big part in our conceptions of his [...]

Last week, AbnormalUse marked its 500th post. This week there’s another milestone in the torts law blogosphere worthy of congratulations: the third birthday of Prof. Alberto Bernabe’s Torts blog. Prof. Bernabe has blogged 1145 posts since Nov. 7, 2008. 1145 posts: all I can say is “Wow.” I hope to make it there someday too [...]

  Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (brother of Rahm and Ari) had an op-ed in last week’s New York Times that hammered home how big you really have to think if you want to stabilize health care costs. As Emanuel pointed out, lots of conservatives and liberals have their own pet ideas for how to rein in [...]

  Insurers always deny they’re acting in bad faith when they delay and dispute claims. They insist that they need to take so long to sort out the facts and determine if they are liable. Trial lawyers and others have long insisted that these excuses are designed to conceal the insurance companies’ financial motives for [...]

On Halloween, the Supreme Court denied certiorari — that is it declined to hear — an appeal in Stryker v. Bausch, a case in which a woman sued for injuries she received from an FDA-approved artificial hip that was later recalled. Since the lower court, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, ruled in the woman’s [...]

Congratulations to our friends over at AbnormalUse, who recently celebrated a milestone:  their five hundredth blog post. This blog is approximately as old as AbnormalUse and this post marks our 235th post, to give you some idea of how prolific AbnormalUse are. AbnormalUse really makes their 500th post count too, sharing with readers some pearls [...]