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Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform: Yes, Deal Better With the Issues but Don't Get Sidelined From More Costly, Needed Health Care Reforms

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 10.13.2012 | Los Angeles
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Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Medical malpractice costs are a flash point for physicians and malpractice trial lawyers, each side claiming their solutions must be heeded to avoid potential disaster for patients and our health care delivery system.

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Man Dies During Extramarital Threesome, His Family Gets $3 Million

The Huffington Post | David Moye | Posted 06.01.2012 | Weird News
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The family of a man who died while having a threesome with a woman and a male friend has been awarded $3 million from his cardiologist because the doc...

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John Celock

Arizona Senate Passes Abortion Bill That Would Protect Doctors Against Lawsuits

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.12.2012 | Politics
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The Arizona Senate passed a bill Tuesday that will prohibit medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors who withhold information from a woman that co...

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Rick Santorum's Wife Sued Doctor For $500,000 In 1999

The Huffington Post | Anna Staver | Posted 02.15.2012 | Politics
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has advocated capping medical malpractice awards at $250,000, but in 1999, his wife sued her doctor ov...

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Florida's Hospitals Have a Secret

Spencer Aronfeld | Posted 03.28.2012 | Miami
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Spencer Aronfeld

Florida's medical secrecy laws are buried deep into Florida's statutes and are supported in part by federal laws. Hospitals are permitted by law to practice under a veil of secrecy that no public corporation or government division enjoys.

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Judge's Innovation May Offer Malpractice Fix

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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WASHINGTON — Part listening, part cajoling, an innovative approach to resolving medical malpractice cases could become a model for courts around...

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Vincent Liew Cancer Kidney Death: Jury Finds In Favor Of NYU Langone Medical Center

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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NEW YORK — A prominent organ-transplant hospital wasn't to blame for the death of a man who became riddled with cancer after getting a kidney fr...

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