When A Car Company Puts Design And Comfort Over Safety
As expected, the parents of actor Anton Yelchin have filed a lawsuit against Jeep for Yelchin’s death on June 19, 2016. Yelchin was found dead, having been crushed by his own 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. [...]
Two Studies On The Pill-Prescribing Culture of Doctors
No matter what condition you have, there is a pill for it. If there’s more than one pill for it, then the expensive one is the one to take. That seems to be the mentality [...]
Why Do Doctors Overstate Robotic Surgery Benefits?
Forbes has a new article by Peter Ubel, “Doctors Can't Be Trusted To Tell Patients Whether They Should Receive Robotic Surgery,” that discusses the results of a study of robotic prostate surgery. The results were [...]
Doctor Can’t Hide Behind Bad Handwriting In Stroke Malpractice Case
For decades, patients, nurses, and doctors alike have told jokes about doctors’ sloppy handwriting. But it’s no joke: thousands of people die every year just from doctors’ poor handwriting. In medical malpractice lawsuits, we [...]
Vaginal Tear During Delivery – New Medical Guidelines From ACOG
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (“ACOG”) is hardly the most objective source of medical information. As we discussed on this blog two years ago, ACOG has gone out of its way to deny [...]
Could Jeremy Carter’s Death Have Been Prevented?
Earlier this week, Jeremy Carter, the grandson of Jimmy Carter, died at 28 years old from an apparent heart attack. As his brother Josh wrote in a heartbreaking blog post, He had a whole battery [...]