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... 26.  Within these amendments, which will become effective on December 1, 2010 absent contrary Congressional action, the Court proposes extending attorney work product protection to expert report drafts.  ...
Thursday, 02 September 2010
... is an irregular beating action of the heart, an arrhythmia called ventricular fibrillation, which is treatable with drugs and electric shock when given in a timely manner. A small percentage of patients ...
Monday, 23 August 2010
Over the years, I have reviewed many cases and read many physician defendant depositions in medical malpractice actions.  I have found that there is no standard format used by attorney's to obtain ...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Recently the FDA finally agreed to step into the foray regarding infusion pumps because of increasing reports of preventable death, leading to more and more medical malpractice actions.  Infusion ...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
5. What Factors Influence Persistent Neck Pain after Whiplash?
(Interesting Cases/Interesting Cases)
... results at the same visit and, therefore, to start interdisciplinary actions at the beginning to improve results. Sidebar Key Points Factors related with VAS 6 months after a whiplash injury were ...
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
... that ineffective interpersonal relationships and interactions are major factors in escalating the aggressive behavior of a volatile individual. Irwin concludes that intolerable environments and ineffectual ...
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
... interactions are major factors in escalating the aggressive behavior of a volatile individual.[8,9] Irwin concludes that intolerable environments and ineffectual interactions are far more likely to influence ...
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
... disqualified from giving testimony previously.  Make sure that there are no proverbial skeletons in the expert's closet:  too many lawsuits, no loss of license, no disciplinary action by their ...
Sunday, 09 May 2010
When medical devices or equipment fail, product liability lawsuits are often filed in order to recover from the victims or victims in class action.  Medical and technical expert witnesses have always ...
Thursday, 06 May 2010
... sustain a medical malpractice or personal injury action.  However, before the medical expert can be of value, he or she must satisfy the court requirements related to medical expert qualifications. ...
Wednesday, 05 May 2010
  When you interview prospective clients, consider that the medical-legal action, be it medical malpractice, personal injury, product liability, toxic tort, overdose or whatever, often begins prior to ...
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
The standard of care must be fully understood by a consulting medical expert witness who is involved in a medical legal action, particularly medical malpractice.  Let's talk about what constitutes ...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Sometimes diseases are so rare and case presentations so atypical that it is difficult to blame a physician for failure to diagnose, and this should not lead to a medical malpractice action, no matter ...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
I have previously written about medical malpractice and hospital malpractice actions stemming from mistakes made while delivering radiation therapy.  Last week the FDA finally said that they will ...
Sunday, 11 April 2010
... circumstances.  In medical malpractice cases, the physician's actions must be measured against those expected of other similar physicians.  This often means that similar physicians are those ...
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Res ipsa loquitur is a Latin phrase meaning “the thing speaks for itself”. It is a legal doctrine which is sometimes used by plaintiffs in negligence actions and other medical legal cases, including medical ...
Friday, 02 April 2010
When a patient comes to an Emergency Room complaining of chest pain, the Emergency Physician is faced with complex and difficult decisions. Chest pain is a key issue in many medical malpractice actions, ...
Saturday, 27 March 2010
18. EMTALA Violations, ER Overcrowding, and Litigation
(Interesting Cases/Interesting Cases)
... by government action....and describe discrete areas of health system structure and function that matter significantly for health system performance."[6] Financing for EDs nationwide has been adversely ...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
19. What is Proximate Cause?
(Blog/Dr. Gustin's Blog)
... have established the "but for" test which states that but for the defendant's action, the injury would not have happened. Courts have used the "but for" rule, otherwise known as the "sine qua non" rule, ...
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Three years ago, Dr. Steven E. Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, conducted a landmark study that suggested that the best-selling diabetes drug Avandia raised the risk of heart attacks. The ...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
... see,' they must think twice about that course of action. If he or she misses a diagnosis and the patient sues, the attorney will blame the doctor for not having done more diagnostic tests. How should ...
Friday, 19 February 2010
... products and who benefit from their sale, must bear the cost of injuries. The resulting litigation becomes a so-called product liability action.   Is the health care provider who used the defective ...
Monday, 15 February 2010
... the best outcomes if correctly identified and treated.[2] Misdiagnosis of SAH is an important cause of medico-legal actions against physicians.[14,15] This review updates emergency physicians on diagnostic ...
Friday, 12 February 2010
24. FDA Takes Action Against Doctor Promotions
(Latest News/Latest News)
The FDA has recently sent a warning letter to one of the most prominent highly quoted dermatologist and clinical researcher in the nation, citing the doctor for expressing irresponsible and premature enthusiasm ...
Sunday, 31 January 2010
25. What happened to the SHAVING BLADE!
(Interesting Cases/Interesting Cases)
... foreign body impactions usually occur at the pylorus of the stomach, the C-bend of the duodenum, and at the ileocecal valve. In the colon, impactions typically occur at the hepatic and splenic flexures.[3] ...
Friday, 30 January 2009
... obstruction, traction resulting from disease of the appendix, colonoscopy, pregnancy, postoperative abdomen, and colonic ileus (pseudo-obstruction) have all been reported. The most common distal colonic ...
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
... to see a motion during a medical malpractice action that seeks to invoke the locality rule as a way to disqualify a medical expert's testimony. Fortunately, most courts do not accept this ploy as it has ...
Tuesday, 09 December 2008
28. Changes in Doctor Training
(Latest News/Latest News)
... directly to patient injury and potential medical malpractice actions. To read the full article: Click Here.  ...
Tuesday, 09 December 2008
29. Fainting in a 24 year old male
(Interesting Cases/Interesting Cases)
... by an accessory pathway within the heart that conducts action potentials between the atria and ventricles outside of the normal conduction system (which conducts through the atrioventricular [AV] node-His-Purkinje ...
Monday, 01 December 2008
30. Bird Droppings and a Chronic Cough
(Interesting Cases/Interesting Cases)
... not immunosuppressed.[11] The sensitivity of antigen detection is higher in urine than serum. Cross-reactions can be seen in patients with blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, penicilliosis (caused by Penicillium ...
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
31. A Young Baseball Player in Cardiac Arrest
(Interesting Cases/Interesting Cases)
... revealed a normal left ventricular systolic ejection fraction, with no structural abnormalities, valvular disease, or hypertrophy. A repeat 12-lead ECG showed no changes from the previous one, and subsequently, ...
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
... general rule, the medical expert should have the same professional qualifications as the defendant physician. In Short v. Atlantic Care Regional Medical Center, the medical malpractice action was dismissed, ...
Friday, 07 November 2008
33. News Tidbits from Late 2007 and 2008
(Latest News/Latest News)
... almost 44,000 in 2005-06, while legal work in some sectors (med mal, PI, securities class actions) has fallen, and the number of law schools has increased by 11 percent since 1995 to 196. The top one-fourth ...
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
34. The Controversial Case of Levine v Wyeth
(Blog/Dr. Gustin's Blog)
... case was settled last year for $700,000.00. Levine has now sued Wyeth in a product liability action alleging that the product labeling is inadequate. She contends that the Phenegan label should state ...
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
35. About Dr. Gustin
(Home Page/About Dr. Gustin)
... in Criminal Cases Substance Abuse and Addiction (Drug and Alcohol, including DUI) Pharmaceutical Medicine (Drug-Drug interactions, Drug-Disease Interactions, Overdose, Unsafe poorly tested Drugs) Flight, ...
Sunday, 19 October 2008
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