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March 20, 2008 at 13:22:54

Arrogance, Abuse, Fraud, and Medical Malpractice: How Some Physicians Beg for Lawsuits

by MC Kean (Posted by MC Kean)     Page 3 of 5 page(s)

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Medical Malpractice Suits Are Dividing the Nation!, by Marcel Votlucka , The Stony Brook Press, December 8, 2005

2. Study Casts Doubt on Claims That the Medical Malpractice System Is Plagued By Frivolous Lawsuits, Harvard School of Public Health, May 10, 2006



3. Too Many Malpractice Suits, Or Not Enough?, By Solange De Santis, ConsumerAffairs.Com, October 18, 2004

Also see, Medical Malpractice in TX: is one of many articles, facts, and research published by, Public Citizen, regarding lawsuit propaganda.

The Medical Malpractice Myth: Forget tort reform. The Democrats have a better diagnosis, by Ezra Klein, Slate, Tuesday, July 11, 2006

4. Prescription Drug Scams, by Dean Baker, Thruthout, June 29, 2006
Drug Trials Hide Conflicts for Doctors , by KURT EICHENWALD and GINA KOLATA, May 16, 1999Insurers Pay Doctors to Switch to Generics, by Joe Mantone, The Wall Street Journal Health Blog, Jan 24, 2008.

Med-tech perks for doctors questioned, by JANET MOORE, Star Tribune, Feb 28, 2008

Is Something Rotten in the State of Radiology?, by Leonard Berlin, MD, FACR, Imaging Economics, March 2007
5. Profit-Seekers, by Payne Hertz, Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Needless Surgery, Reprinted from Consumer Reports on Health (March 1998)
© 1998 Consumers Union*

To Go Under the Knife--or Not?, by Kate Murphy, Business Week, July 7 2003Health Department Fines Parkway Hospital $32,000 for Performing Unnecessary Surgeries on Patients from Leben Home, state of New York Department of Health, 7/16/01

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans File $30 Million Lawsuit Alleging "Rent a Patient" Fraud in Southern California, Summary by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BMC Cancer. 2005; 5: 94. Published online 2005 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-94.

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Atrocity, Elizabeth Eugenia James-LaBozetta
Central Ohio Patient's-rights Service (C.O.P.S.) and Citizens for Medical Safety


6. High Rate of Failure Estimated for Silicone Breast Implants, by GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times, Published: April 7, 2005

7. Breast surgery accelerates recurrences in some women., Heatlh Facts, Nov 5, 200
Trauma-associated growth of suspected dormant micrometastasis, Nagi S El Saghir,1 Ihab I Elhajj,1 Fady B Geara,2 and Mukbil H Hourani3 BMC Cancer. 2005; 5: 94. Published online 2005 August 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-5-94.

STRESS HORMONES MAY PLAY NEW ROLE IN SPEEDING UP CANCER GROWTH, Cancer Research, Nov. 1, 2006 republished OHSU Research News

Tumor dormancy: not so sleepy after all, by Cliff Murray, Nature Medicine, 1, 117 - 118 (1995)

Does surgery unfavorably perturb the "natural history" of early breast cancer by accelerating the appearance of distant metastases?,European Journal of Cancer, Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 508-515 M. Baum, R. Demicheli, W. Hrushesky, M. Retsky 

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cmhmd is a physician practicing critical care (intensive care) medicine. He is interested in healthcare policy, particularly in advocating for single payer sytem in the US. He runs Single Payer Healthcare Blog on blogspot.
cmhmdcmhmd is a physician practicing critical care (intensive care) medicine. He is interested in healthcare policy, particularly in advocating for single payer sytem in the US. He runs Single Payer Healthcare Blog on blogspot.

references (and tone)

Hi,

Interesting piece, but as a physician, I think you paint us with too broad (and harsh) a brush. I think your readers would agree: certainly there are bad actors in each profession, but certainly not a majority. I am sure you know many physicians who put their patients first at all times and, while imperfect and constrained by a truly crappy healthcare non-system, try to do their best. My blog is here to give you an idea where I come from:

http://cmhmd.blogspot.com

Also, your references are only appearing up to number 7 on the website (at least for me). I would like to read more of them if you can repost them.

 Cheers,

cmhmd

by cmhmd (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 1 comments) on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 9:42:21 AM
 


Just one citizen struggling to regain American Democracy. I am a bit of a intellectual jack of all trades master of none. I have studied, economics, sociology, philosophy, womens studies, and political science at a graduate level.
MC KeanJust one citizen struggling to regain American Democracy. I am a bit of a intellectual jack of all trades master of none. I have studied, economics, sociology, philosophy, womens studies, and political science at a graduate level.

fixed the references

Fixed the references.  I know there are some good physicians.  However, I do not think they are any longer in the majority.  I noticed you were more interested in spam than making a supported arguement.

by MC Kean (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 11:30:59 AM
 


Just one citizen struggling to regain American Democracy. I am a bit of a intellectual jack of all trades master of none. I have studied, economics, sociology, philosophy, womens studies, and political science at a graduate level.
MC KeanJust one citizen struggling to regain American Democracy. I am a bit of a intellectual jack of all trades master of none. I have studied, economics, sociology, philosophy, womens studies, and political science at a graduate level.

I Wish

I know a few physicians that put their patients first at all times; I know more who do not.    While there are bad players in all fields; physicians are in a position to do grave harm.  Patient protection mechanisms are grossly limited, and many physicians work hard to keep it that way.  Just google medical malpractice and the "myth" I speak of presents.  

 

by MC Kean (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 6 comments) on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 12:14:45 PM
 

 

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