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The Appellate Division, Second Dept., reaffirmed that a plaintiff cannot maintain an action for “wrongful life,” in the March 17, 2009 case... Read More

What you don’t know about those status conference orders can really hurt you.  This is illustrated painfully in a March 19, 2009, decision, Regina... Read More

An editorial in today’s New England Journal of Medicine laments the result of the Riegel v. Medtronic decision, based mostly on the NEJM’s concern that “ preemption... Read More

In a recent NY Times article, reporter Barry Meier discussed Medtronic’s acknowledgment that some 13 deaths have been attributed to malfunctions of a device it manufactured –a small cable,... Read More

Yesterday, I gave a presentation to a roomful of medical records adminstrators at a conference put on by Lorman .  The topic was Medical... Read More

In early February, I posted about West Virginia physician, John A. King , who had managed to generate 124 medical malpractice lawsuits during the... Read More

Your doctor examines you, and in the process, proves himself an incompetent creep with not a hint of a bedside manner.  You’d... Read More

The U. S. Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited decision in Wyeth v. Levine, according to Bloomberg News ,   And the news is not... Read More

In today’s NY Times , Gardiner Harris reports on renewed interest by federal prosecutors in going after doctors who accept illegal kickbacks from drug... Read More

25 years after the death of Libby Zion at New York Hospital, a physician reflects on the changes in how residents are trained–changes largely... Read More