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Medical Websites

By Grant Law Office on March 30, 2008

The amount of medical information available on the Internet is mindboggling, if not mind-numbing! Once you wade into these cyber waters, it is often easy to feel more confused than assisted by the glut of articles, advertising and medical reports.

Here is a selection of the top medical sites with a short summary describing the content. There is a lot of quality health information on the Web, but finding it amongst the quackery can be a chore. Luckily many weaker players have fallen by the wayside, and more and more academic, government and research institutions are uploading their information onto the Internet!!Read more…

Doctors Fail to Self-Report Errors

By Grant Law Office on January 18, 2008

A newly published study by researchers at the University of Iowa has found that a significant number of doctors fail to self-report medical errors. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, revealed that 17 percent of doctors surveyed failed to report minor medical errors while 4 percent failed to report errors that resulted in disability or death. Data for the study were gathered from surveys with 338 doctors at three unidentified teaching hospitals. This is not surprising at all to me. In deposition after deposition, I have heard doctors who committed the most blatant of errors try to justify the unjustifiable. There are plenty of great physicians who are motivated by care and concern for patients. There are however, a small number of physicians, who like those in any business or profession, are there for the wrong reasons. Those individuals make the mistakes and when they do, sometimes try to bury them.

Source: The Des Moines Register – Study: Doctors Fail to Self-Report Errors

Patient Care Suffers as ER Wait Times Continue to Increase

By Grant Law Office on January 16, 2008

Have you ever waited and waited and waited to be seen in an emergency room? You are not alone. A new study, published in the Houston Chronicle on 1-15-08 has found that emergency room waiting times increased nationwide by 36% between 1997 and 2004.The study, conducted by researchers from the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, concluded that the increased wait likely has an adverse impact on patient care and may cause some to leave the hospital before seeing a doctor. Data for the study were based on the more than 90,000 emergency room visits in urban and non-urban areas. Houston Chronicle