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

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By MC Kean, Posted by MC Kean (about the submitter)     Page 3 of 5 page(s)

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1. The following two articles represent a very small fraction of the propaganda concerning lawsuits and medical malpractice.
A Confederacy of Boobs, by Michael Fumento Reason, October 1995

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
Also see,
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)

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link by MC Kean on Saturday, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:50:06 PM
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