The lead researcher of a team from the National Institutes of Health (IOH) states that the most dire problem existing in the medical industry today owes most prevalently to "when medical practices are instituted in error." Dr. Vinay Prasad says that the way to combat...
Doctor Errors
Study: Future cancers tied to high rate of CT scans in kids today
A central point that prominently emerges in research that was published recently in the journal JAMA Pediatrics is that X-ray errors and other types of scanning problems can derive from many sources, which makes cancer risks -- especially for young patients --...
Doctor’s view on medical mistakes: greater transparency needed
An experienced infectious-disease physician who often writes articles on medical topics recently addressed the subject of surgical mistakes and other medical errors, noting both a culture of nondisclosure surrounding the admission of error and the need for doctors and...
NJ company false claims settlement highlights MD conflict risks
A New Jersey-based medical technology company has just been slapped hard in a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice. C.R. Bard Inc. -- headquartered in Murray Hill -- will pay out more than $50 million to settle charges that it violated the federal...
Johns Hopkins: misdirected focus on cutting health care costs
It's the perennial dividing point and line drawn in the sand by advocates of tort reform who favor caps on medical malpractice damages.And it's wrong, says a Johns Hopkins research team that has examined a voluminous amount of data relating to malpractice payments...
Electronic health record copy/paste practice a growing concern
The term "sloppy and paste" might intuitively seem most aptly attached to a student's mediocre writing efforts or media plagiarism.The description also applies, though, to a practice in the medical field that many commentators are drawing attention to and voicing...
