The recent news about the two Northwest Airlines pilots whose licenses were revoked, less than a week after they let their plane wander 150 miles off course, raises the question: Where are the firing offenses in medicine?

The pilots injured no passengers, and the event didn't even qualify...

As I sat in a cramped doctor's office the other day, listening to his story of why my client never received a life-saving colonoscopy, I realized my client had died because we lack a very simple health care reform, one that doesn't seem to be on the agenda of Congress,...

As Congress tinkers with health care reform, lawmakers should listen to what a special group of advocates is trying to tell them. There is no better day to listen than Saturday, July 25, the ninth annual Patient Safety Day.

These patient safety advocates are laypeople who have turned...

Sudden cardiac arrest kills some 300,000 Americans a year. The heart loses its normal electrical rhythm and the pumping mechanism collapses, so unless the patient gets prompt CPR and an electric shock to restore the heartbeat, brain damage sets in quickly from the loss of blood flow and the patient...

I wish President Obama could meet one or two of my clients who are victims of medical hit-and-runs. When the President tells the American Medical Association that he is open to curbing the rights of injured patients to sue in court, he shows that he just doesn't understand either what...