Where patient safety is concerned, more rather than less data trumps, right?And in the sphere of hospital alarms, specifically, it must assuredly be the case that more beeping and chiming to alert nurses and other staff members of patient-related needs and concerns is...
Hospital Negligence
Truly chilling implications: when hospitals get hacked
When readers hear the words "restoring normal operations," they might reasonably think of something like getting the lights back on at the ballpark following a power outage. Getting back to normal might also apply to something like getting the planes back in the air...
The list is long: malpractice insurer details doctors’ errors
It is reasonable to assume that a medical malpractice insurance provider knows a thing or two about the underlying causes that drive litigation claims filed by injured patients and their families.Put another way: An insurer that seeks to protect doctors and other...
Resting in a hospital? Now there’s a concept.
Have you ever been a patient in an Arizona hospital?If so, do you have memories of softly drifting into a deep and relaxing sleep that lasted for hours each night, with hospital staff members doing everything they could to dampen noise levels and surrounding...
Update on superbug infections: materially understated
Many of our readers across Maricopa County and Arizona likely remember with crystal clarity -- and perhaps unchecked horror -- news that began surfacing in 2012 regarding the outbreak in some hospitals in the United States and abroad of a so-called "superbug."That...
A roll call of unflattering numbers relating to VA medical care
Regardless of how the following numbers are massaged, they certainly don't look good for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This bulleted summary of things gone wrong for the VA will certainly cause many of our readers across Arizona and elsewhere to duly...
21st century medicine: the logically emboldened patient
"Your body is your business!" That is the succinct and forceful reminder of a doctor/media commentator on personal health and care delivery to would-be and actual patients everywhere. Put another way: If you or a family member has health issues that are even remotely...
On failure to warn: court weighs in on widely relevant case
We note on a relevant page of our website at the Maricopa County medical malpractice law firm of Harris Powers & Cunningham that medical facility-based negligence occurs across a wide universe of patient-inflicted harms. On a web page discussing hospital injuries,...
Misdiagnosis: a huge medical problem requiring more focus
Here's a central Catch-22 regarding a key aspect of medical care in Arizona and across the country, according to a doctor who recently wrote an article on care delivery for a national online media outlet.On the one hand, notes Dr. Art Papier, good physicians are...
Tort reform and damage caps: Really, a crisis?
The subject of so-called "tort reform" is front and center in a recent online article focusing on an alleged medical malpractice crisis that grips the nation.In that media commentary, the author makes this quick and preliminary point regarding that crisis: It is...