Healthcare Update — 07-24-2014

This study might suggest that mega-hospital care is better, but is immediate care in small volume emergency departments better than delays in care during travel to a mega-hospital … or no care at all because patients can’t get there? This may explain why doctors are so good at practicing defensive medicine. During their careers, doctors spend more time in the courtroom than in the classroom. The headline is misleading since during a lawsuit, doctors aren’t in the courtroom 40 hours per week as they are during medical school. The point is that for 11% of their careers, an average physician has a lawsuit hanging over his or her head. Johns Hopkins gynecologist admits to secretly recording patients during gyne exams. Police search home and find computer servers with naked pictures and videos of up to 8000 patients. Doctor then commits suicide. Johns Hopkins has just agreed to a $190 million settlement with the involved patients. If the lawyers get 30% of the settlement, they’ll net $63 million. If the remaining funds are divided equally among the affected patients, they’ll each receive about $16,000. Kourtney Kardashian’s boyfriend can’t handle his liquor and has to go to the emergency department for alcohol poisoning. Not sure why this is news, but now you can click the link and gouge your eyes out, too. There may be some truth to the statement from patients with chronic back pain who say “that sh*t doesn’t work with me.R...
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