A laptop and a cardboard box. These two items could be major tools in improving regular folks’ health throughout this year — and beyond — if they get launched on important tasks, pronto.
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DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
The DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog, published by Patrick Malone & Associates, focuses on legal issues related to medical malpractice and patient safety. It covers topics such as negligence by healthcare providers including doctors, nurses, hospitals, and nursing homes. The blog also addresses related areas like dangerous drugs, defective products, and injuries to babies and children. Additionally, it discusses consumer rights, legal and accounting malpractice, brain and spinal cord injuries, and sexual abuse cases involving children and youth. The blog provides insights into patient advocacy, healthcare law changes, and legal strategies for those harmed by medical or institutional negligence in the Washington DC area.
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Californians have accomplished something that federal regulators have failed to — despite long, difficult campaigning. Voters in the biggest state in the nation not only have banned Big Tobacco from peddling its flavored products that target and exploit communities of…
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Big hospitals and hospital chains have wailed, with considerable justification, since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic about financial damages they have suffered due to costly shortages of desperately needed health staff. But the institutions fostered this staffing crisis,…
Misdiagnoses lead to 250,000 ER patients’ deaths annually, U.S. study finds
Doctors working in hospital emergency departments face chaos, violence and high stress every day, and usually they get the diagnosis and treatment right. But, and it’s a big but, as often as one in seventeen ER visits ends with a…
A holiday health warning to take to heart about drinking
Cardiologists and other doctors have words to the wise for the aging, party-hearty-for-the-holidays crowd: Excessive boozing, as part of their seasonal merry making, puts those who partake of too much liquid cheer at heightened risk of heart problems.
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