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• Banned Children’s Toys
• Action Park a.k.a. “Accident Park”
• Stephen Colbert Examines SawStop
• My Cousin Vinny’s Version Of The Criminal Justice System
• Are You Eating Soylent Pink?
• Why Does An MRI Cost $1,080 In America And $280 In France?
• The Doctor You Never Heard Of Who Saved 800,000 Lives
• Rich And Poor Alike Receive Terrible Health Care
• If You Believe In Patient Safety, You Need Not Apply For Government Work
• Ideas For Health Care Savings
• These Things Don’t Write Themselves You Know
• Your Doctor’s Tie Could Be Making You Sick
• Congratulations To Professor Bernabe
• When It Comes To Health Care Savings, You Have To Think Big. Really big.
• A Business Legend Explains Why Insurance Companies Delay Resolving Personal Injury Claims
• Supreme Court Allows Patients To Sue For Defective Artificial Hips
• Congratulations To Abnormal Use
• Deinstitutionalizing Nursing Homes
• Speed Kills; The Consequences Are Forever
• Intellectually Lazy Or Logically Sound? A Reply To Dr. Donnell On Financial Incentives Affecting Guidelines And Clinical Trials
• Medicare Has The Right Idea
• Please Excuse The Blogging Miscues
• Should Your Doctor Be Taking “Smart Drugs” And Other Medical Malpractice Hypotheticals
• The Worst Medical Malpractice Is The Surgery You Did Not Need In The First Place
• Link Roundup
• If We Get Rid Of Lawyers Will We Have More Lawsuits? And A Thought About Brain Drain
• Power Saw Accidents And Safety Standards: Important Decisions From CPSC And A Federal Court
• The Problem With Doctors Complaining About Medical Malpractice Law
• Could Your Doctor Use A Coach?
• Another Hospital Death Due To “Alarm Fatigue”
• Lawyer Who Serves As Advocate Against Elder Abuse Wins MacArthur Grant
• Link Roundup (Now With Great Graphic!)
• Massachusetts Think Tank Issues Hackneyed White Paper On Tort Reform
• The West Memphis 3, The Death Penalty, And What Juries Get To See And Hear
• How NOT To Enter A Courtroom
• How Can Doctors Be Both Overworked and Overpaid?
• First, Let’s Deregulate All The Lawyers
• We Spend The Most On Health Care And Have The Least To Show For It In Terms Of Patient Safety
• Driverless Cars (Redux)
• Legal Blog Roundup
• A New “Hotspot” Video
• Link Roundup
• World’s First Driverless Car Accident Requires Rethinking Of Rules Of Legal Liability
• Kaiser Health Sues Hospital Chain For Padding Bills
• Law Blog Roundup
• Should Lawyers Need Law Licenses?
• The Casey Anthony Closing Arguments And “Temporal Variance”
• “Hot Coffee,” Jamie Leigh Jones And Why Mandatory Pre-Dispute Arbitration Is Still A Bad Idea For Consumers And Employees
• My Own Review Of “Poisoned: The True Story Of The Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed The Way Americans Eat”
• When Doctors Follow Evidence-Based Guidelines Only 54 Percent Of The Time, You Get A Lot Of Unnecessary Surgeries
• Link Roundup
• Replacing Intersections With Roundabouts Reduces Accidents Forty Percent
• It Is A Level Regulatory Playing Field
• Tort Reform And Health Care Cost Control
• Forty Years And Medicine Still Has Not Changed
• Book Review Of “Poisoned: The True Story Of The E. Coli Outbreak That Changed The Way Americans Eat”
• “Hot Coffee” Deserves An Oscar
• New Report Estimates Wrong Site Surgeries Take Place 40 Times Each Week
• Friday Link Roundup
• Massachusetts Considers Law Giving Patients The Right To Have Their Surgery Videotaped
• The Death Of The Autopsy And Its Implications For Public Health
• A New Breed Of Medical Specialist: The Nocturnist
• Ted Frank’s Bold Gamble And His Scandalous Lack Of Faith In The Efficiency Of Markets
• Europe’s E. Coli O104:H4 Outbreak: Facts And Lessons
• New Studies Say Missed Meds Cost Our Health Care System $250 Billion A Year, Potentially Fixable
• Consumer Groups Push CPSC For Safer Table Saws
• Atul Gawande’s Commencement Address To Harvard Medical
• A Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Mystery
• Are “Children At Play” Signs Endangering Children?
• New Study Shows Cardiac Surgeons Ignoring Guidelines, Jumping Right To (Unnecessary, High-Risk) Surgery
• Is The Peltzman Effect A Fiction?
• Laser Spine Surgery Centers: Are They A Scam?
• Phoebe Prince And Medical Malpractice
• Physician Bullying: One Reason For Miscommunication Between Doctors And Nurses
• Emergency Room Medical Malpractice: What We Have Here Is Failure To Communicate
• Friday Link Roundup
• The (Supposedly) Quaint Notion Of Professionalism And Its Place In The Health Care Debate
• Health Care And Income Inequality: How Poverty Makes Us Sick
• Legal Roundup
• The Two Ways Better Databases Would Drive Down Health Care Costs
• Hospital Disciplines Doctor Who Allegedly Performed Unnecessary Spinal Fusion Surgeries
• Lawyers Have Made Cars So Safe That There Are Now More Suicide Deaths Than Car Accident Deaths
• Lawyers Are Not Funny, But This Worker’s Comp Opinion Is Possibly The Funniest Judicial Opinion Ever*
• Someday A Legal Blog Will Win A Pulitzer Prize
• New Research Suggests Justice Really Is What The Judge (And Jury) Had For Breakfast. So What Do We Do About It?
• Legal News Roundup
• The New Social Science Of Group IQ And How It Applies In The Operating Room
• Applying The Lessons Of Flight Safety To Medical Malpractice
• New Defective Product Database Debuts, But May Be Short-Lived
• Supervisors Of Medical Residents Don’t Think Cutting Residents’ Hours Will Reduce Residents’ Fatigue
• Look How Easy It Is To Reduce Medical Malpractice: New York Patient Safety Program Reduces Birth Injuries By 99 Percent (!!!)
• CDC Reports That Number Of Central-Line Infections In Hospitals Is Dropping (We Can Do A Lot Better Though)
• Young Doctors’ Overreliance On CT Scans
• Big Pharma’s Billion Dollar Propaganda
• What Kind Of Conservative Believes In Tort Reform?
• Law Blog Roundup
• Review Of “Schools For Misrule”
• Defensive Medicine: Not Driven By Medical Malpractice Fears?
• Law Blog Roundup
• Why Are Lives Lost To Medical Malpractice Not As Valuable As Other Lives?
• New Study Shows That FDA Loophole Used To Approve DePuy Artificial Hips Responsible For Majority Of Medical Device Recalls
• Little Dogs, Lots Of Bite?
• Gee Whiz, Could Health Insurance Companies Really Be Pennywise And Pound Foolish?
• ProPublica’s “Dollars For Docs” Database
• Health Care Roundup
• CPSC May Mandate Flesh Detection Technology In Table Saws: Is That A Good Thing?
• Memo To President Obama: Seven Ways To Reduce Health Care Costs Without Hurting The Victims Of Medical Malpractice
• New Report Shows Unexplained Doubling Of Serious Dog Bite Injuries Over Fifteen Year Period
• Blog Roundup
• Dutch Study Finds That Use Of Checklists Could Reduce Medical Malpractice Lawsuits By One-Third
• New Database Allows Massachusetts Patients To Review Drug Company Payments To Their Doctors
• Boston Personal Injury News Roundup
• How Many Surgeons Does It Take To Count Your Vertebrae?
• Why Should A Truck Driver Have To Get More Sleep Than Your Surgeon?: New Research Raises Questions About Physician Fatigue
• American Bar Association’s Blawg 100
• Operating For Profit?
• Boston Faces First Blizzard Since Adoption Of New Legal Rule In Slip-And-Fall Cases
• Medical Malpractice And Car Accidents: A Tale Of Two Public Health Problems
• DePuy A.S.R. Hip Replacement Recall Shows Flaws In FDA Approval Of Medical Implants
• Why You Should Steer Clear Of A “Settlement Mill” If You Have A Serious Car Accident Case And Tips On How To Spot One
• Medicare’s Dialysis Program: An Illustration Of Why US Health Care Costs Are So High
• ECRI Institute Releases List Of Top Ten Threats To Patient Safety
• Link Roundup
• American Bar Association Names This Blog One Of The Top 100 Law Blogs
• Surprise, Surprise: Patient Safety Has Not Improved In Ten Years Since Landmark Study
• Are Medical Malpractice Lawsuits To Blame For Doctors Shirking Responsibility For Their Errors?
• The Future Of American Health Care: Nurse-Based Care
• Link Roundup
• Reforming Medical Culture Begins With The Elite
• Massachusetts Poised To Abandon Fee-For-Service Medicine
• Medical Malpractice Waivers: A Bad Idea Whose Time Will Never Come
• Blawgosphere Roundup
• “Evidence-Based” Medical Malpractice Guidelines: Peter Orzag’s Modest Proposal
• From Around The Legal Blogosphere
• Babies Drowning In Puddles, CVS Pharmacists And Duties Of Care
• Medical Malpractice Lawsuits: A Red Herring In The Health Care Debate
• The Health Care Mystery of Grand Junction, CO
• How Medical Malpractice Claims Help Doctors Avoid Mistakes
• Massachusetts Homeowners May Be Held Liable For Injuries Caused By Backyard Softball Game
• Link Roundup
• The Judge, Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform
• Checklists and Other Medical Error Reforms
• Distracted Driving Car Accident Deaths Down In 2009
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Affirms $3.35 Million Jury Verdict For Boy Injured By Defective Escalator
• Maybe Doctors Should Be More Like Medical Malpractice Lawyers And Work On An Outcome-Based Model
• Don’t Drive With A Divorced Doctor In A Pick-Up Truck On Super Bowl Sunday: Some Surprising Car Accident Statistics
• Students Who Take Driver’s Ed More Likely To Be Involved In A Car Accident Than Those Who Do Not Take Classes?
• Putting All Of Your Eggs In The Same Basket: The Story Of The Salmonella Egg Recall
• Link Roundup: From Across The Blawgosphere
• One-Third Of Doctors Would Not Report Incompetent Or Impaired Colleagues
• Should Doctors Admit More Of Their Mistakes?
• Car Accidents: Changing Times, Changing Causes
• Sudden Uncontrolled Acceleration And Stock Trading Algorithms
• New Study Puts Costs Of Injuries From Medical Errors At $19.5 Billion Annually
• Mounting Evidence About The Defective Design Of CT Scanners
• Legal News Round-Up
• Insurance That Pays For Your Traffic Tickets?
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Hands Down Disappointing Liquor Liability Case
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Abolishes Archaic “Natural Accumulation” Rule In Premises Liability Cases
• Does Who Pays For Your Surgery Determine If You Survive?
• A Thank You To My Legal Blogging Brethren
• Amazing Video of SawStop Technology
• Another Doctor Who Believes That Reducing Medical Malpractice Depends On Learning From The Aviation Industry: But What Are The Lessons We Should Be Learning?
• Will Self-Correcting Cars Reduce The Number Of Car Accidents? A Study In The Peltzman Effect
• Independence Day Weekend Roundup
• Maybe “Defensive Medicine” Is Simply The Kind Of Medicine You’d Want Your Doctor To Practice?
• More Than Two Million Drop-Side Cribs Recalled
• Proposed New Regulations Would Require More Supervision Of Medical Residents
• Massachusetts House Approves Texting While Driving Ban
• Study Reveals More Than Half Of Pediatricians Make At Least One Diagnostic Error A Month
• Numbers In Context: A Fill-In-The-Blank Blog Post On Medical Malpractice
• Study Shows That Massachusetts Personal Injury Plaintiffs Are Losing Vast Majority Of Trials: Is That A Problem, And What’s The Solution?
• The $28 Million Nursing Home Verdict: The Law And The Public Policy
• Tort Reform And Epistemic Closure
• Laconia Motorcycle Week (June 12-20, 2010) And The Myth Of Motorcycle Dangerousness
• Massachusetts Teaching Hospitals May Commit More Medication Errors In July
• Supreme Lawyers? Supreme Judges?
• More Intellectual Dishonesty (And Callousness) From The Tort Reform Crowd
• New Research Shows More Children Are Swallowing Tiny “Button Batteries”
• Medical Malpractice Roundup
• Consumer Product Safety Commission Warns Of Memorial Day Weekend Dangers To ATV Riders
• Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?
• Arrogance Kills Patients (Why You’re Safer On A Plane Than Under Anesthesia)
• What Do Tort Reformers Believe In? (Hint: It’s Not The Free Market)
• Study Says Newer Airbags May Be Inferior To Older Model
• May 17-23 Is National Dog Bite Prevention Week
• Are You To Blame For The High Cost Of Health Care?
• Why You Should Pay Attention To Drug And Product Warning Labels
• Bikers Are Getting Older, And More Banged Up
• Do Women Make Better Doctors?
• May Is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month
• New Journal Article Provides More Support For The Use Of Checklists To Reduce Medical Malpractice
• Massachusetts Lags While Movement To Curb Texting While Driving Gains Steam
• Why Your Next Motorcycle Should Have Anti-Lock Brakes
• E. Coli Poisoning: Pulitzer Prizes, CDC Reports And New Legislation
• Weekly Roundup Of Personal Injury News
• Do Doctors Downplay Patients’ Reports Of Their Symptoms?
• Antiseizure, Depression Medications Linked To Increased Risk Of Suicide
• Back Surgeries Overprescribed?
• Football Head Injuries: A Follow-Up
• FDA Approves New Yaz Label Warnings
• Another Study Shows Doctors Responding To Profit Motives
• Another Boston-Area Case Of Nursing Home Abuse
• Post-Post-Script To A Documentary
• FDA Scientist Says He Was Forced Out Because He Would Not Approve Medical Imaging Procedure
• Electric Bicycles: Coming Soon To A Massachusetts Roadway Near You
• The Law Of Negligence: Traditional And Economic Approaches
• Life-Threatening Baby Slings Sold In Massachusetts Recalled
• Massachusetts Man Wins $1.5 Million In Table Saw Case
• Link Roundup (Week Of 3/22/10)
• Journal Article Reveals Undisclosed Conflicts Of Interest In Avandia Studies
• Plaintiff Loses In First Seroquel Trial To Go To Jury Verdict
• The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right (A Book Review)
• On Uncontrolled Acceleration And Black Boxes
• What Medical Malpractice Lawyers And Hedge Fund Managers Have In Common
• FDA To Investigate Link Between Osteoporosis Drugs And Femur Fractures
• NHTSA Investigators To Probe Massachusetts Toyota Crash
• Massachusetts Tort Roundup
• Eye-Opening Boston Herald Investigative Expose On Massachusetts Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
• Just Be Glad You Live In Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Senate Approves Texting Ban, Restrictions On Elderly Drivers
• The FDA Has No Regulations About Acceptable Bacterial Levels In Bagged Salads: Sign Petition To Get Them
• Sen. Durbin Demolishes Republican Plan For Medical Malpractice “Reform”
• The Tort Reform Crowd Thinks This Was A Frivolous Lawsuit
• FDA Issues Warning To Kellogg Over Listeria Bacteria At Eggo Plant
• Are Medical Malpractice Lawsuits To Blame For The High Cost Of Healthcare?
• Can An Injured Olympic Athlete Sue The Olympics?
• Are You Risking Food Poisoning By Ignoring Expiration Dates?
• Follow-Up On “Semper Ride” Motorcycle Safety Film
• Good NPR Program On Toyota Recall
• FDA Announces Effort To Reduce Radiation Overdose Medical Malpractice
• More Than A Dozen Massachusetts Consumers Suffer Salmonella Poisoning In Outbreak
• Toyota Recall II: Is Sudden Uncontrolled Acceleration Something To Be Worried About?
• Consumer Product Safety Commission Tells Massachusetts Parents To Stop Using Cribs
• Surprising Statistic: In 2008 More Marines Died In Motorcycle Accidents Than In Iraq
• Massachusetts Women Should Be Aware Of The Risks of Yaz
• Link Of The Day: Medical Malpractice “Reform”
• Toyota Acceleration Problem Poses Dangers For Massachusetts Drivers
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Poised To Change Rule In Slip-And-Fall Cases: Part I
• First Denture Cream Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed
• Report: Laws Banning Cell Phone Use While Driving Doesn’t Lower Accident Rates
• Federal Law Now Prohibits Truckers From Driving While Texting
• USA Today Article On Nursing Home Quality
• Baby Stroller Recall: Important News for Massachusetts Parents
• Medical Malpractice Involving Radiation Overdose: A Troubling Phenomenon
• Lawyers In Massachusetts And Elsewhere Ponder Whether Football Helmets Cause Head Injuries: Part II
• Lawyers In Massachusetts And Elsewhere Ponder Whether Football Helmets Cause Head Injuries: Part I
• Reglan And Tardive Dyskenesia
• Massachusetts’ Largest Medical Malpractice Verdict of 2009 Was Turned Down By Massachusetts Lawyers
• South Shore Mother Whose Daughter Was Overserved Alcohol Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Part II
• South Shore Mother Whose Daughter Was Overserved Alcohol Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Part I