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Health Reform: A critically ill premature baby is moved to a U.S hospital to get the treatment she couldn't get in the system we're told we should emulate. Cost-effective care? In Canada, as elsewhere, you get what you pay for.Ava Isabella Stinson was born last Thursday at St. Joseph's hospital in Hamilton, Ontario. Weighing only two pounds, she was born 13 weeks premature and needed some very special care. Unfortunately, there were no open neonatal intensive care beds for her at St. Joseph's — or anywhere else in the entire province of Ontario, it seems.

The United Nations may face earth-shattering medical malpractices lawsuits in the near future. Why? Apparently, evidence, can be proven through a simple Google search, revealing that only one doctor employed at the UN Medical Services Division (MSD) in New York City is licensed to practice medicine in the state of New York. SNIP// Ms. Kane also noted that all staff members of the UN MSD were cleared of any wrongdoing with the exception of an alleged whistleblower who may have released information about criminal activities linked with the narcotics scheme to the public. Kane is quoted in the video as...

Despite a decade of promises, little has been done to fix the problem of preventable medical errors that kill nearly 98,000 people in the United States each year, a consumer group said on Tuesday. Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, said lawmakers largely have failed to enact patient safety reforms recommended by a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine or IOM that found that medical errors cost the United States $17 billion to $29 billion a year.

HARRISBURG — Statewide health care groups are touting new legislation that would allow medical professionals to apologize to patients without triggering a lawsuit based on their statements alone. The measure by state Sen. Pat Vance, R-31, Carlisle, wouldn’t relieve a doctor or hospital and nursing home employees making an apology from liability for a medical error or procedure that doesn’t turn out as anticipated. Proponents believe creating a legal climate where such statements can be made more easily could result in fewer medical malpractice lawsuits and leave patients and their families more satisfied with the health care provided them. The...

Planned Parenthood, First Avenue and Grape Street, San Diego, Saturday, March 7, 2009 Planned Parenthood at First Avenue and Grape Street near downtown San Diego started telling customers last Saturday, February 28, they would not be allowed in if they had leaflets given them by "the protestors." Surprisingly, this did not stop nearly the same number of potential clients getting the "Danger" pamphlet on Saturday, March 7. Most clients seemed willing to roll down their windows as they were turning into the clinic's driveway and accept information about the clinic. By 8 a.m., nearly 10 customers coming in the driveway...

NEW YORK (CBS) ― She was a vibrant young mother who went to a Brooklyn hospital for what she thought was a kidney stone. She wound up leaving without her hands and feet because of what her lawyers call a "medical mistake." Now, Tabitha Mullings is suing. The 32-year-old suffered an infection and ended up a quadriplegic with impaired vision. "Because of this hospital, this emergency room, with back pain and side pain, and she leaves here on a stretcher with no hands and feet and legally blind," said Sanford Rubenstein, Mullings' attorney. It was on Sept. 14 when Mullings...

Six employees at a Bedford County school are doing "ok" after being injected with the wrong medication at a flu clinic. The school nurse at New London Academy was giving teachers and staff their flu shots on Friday. But instead of using the flu vaccine, the nurse accidentally injected six people with insulin.

The state has ordered two Orlando clinics to stop doing abortions indefinitely and suspended the medical license of their owner, Dr. James Pendergraft, on grounds that he illegally performed third-trimester abortions. The restrictions began last week at one Orlando location, and by Wednesday, all five of Pendergraft's offices statewide had been ordered to stop providing abortions.

Every year, malaria kills Africa's children by the million and impoverishes their families. The World Bank, as the world's largest aid agency, made a handsome commitment to combat malaria; but the commitment was only partially honored and the investment was misspent. As 12 academic and think-tank colleagues and I demonstrate in the latest Lancet (25th April "The World Bank, False Financial and Statistical Accounts, and Medical Malpractice in Malaria Treatment"), it's time the Bank's directors stopped throwing good money after bad management and leave the malaria business to more competent agencies. In 1998, the World Bank along with other health...

Man Charged In Fake Flu Shot Case Shots Contain Purified Water POSTED: 4:56 pm CDT October 28, 2005 UPDATED: 5:15 pm CDT October 28, 2005 HOUSTON -- A man was charged Friday, accused of intentionally administering fake flu shots to hundreds of ExxonMobil employees, KPRC Local 2 reported. Iyad Abu El Hawa, 35, is accused of attempting to defraud Medicare by giving fake flu vaccines, according to U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg. Officials said El Hawa substituted a purified form of water for the vaccine. Investigators said the bogus flu shots were given at an ExxonMobil health fair on Oct. 19...

  Home | Previous Page | Source URL: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05090202.html LifeSiteNews.com Friday September 2, 2005 Abortion Doc Caught Performing Fake Abortion – Victim Goes Public NEW YORK, NY, September 2, 2005, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The national director of Priests for Life, Fr. Frank Pavone, issued a statement today praising the courage of a victim of botched "abortion." Melanie Mills revealed her story on a radio station in St. Louis, Missouri, which was met with a lawsuit from abortionist Yogendra Shaw from the Hope Clinic in Granite City, IL. Ms. Mills had not been given a pregnancy test prior to the abortion,...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version August 29, 2005, 8:03 a.m. "Sorry" Works A prescription for fewer medical-malpractice suits. Across the years and through the morphine, I recall an anesthesiologist explaining how he goofed during major surgery — on me. I was in a dreadful car crash in 1986. While trying to insert a small antibiotic tube near my heart, a Tucson Medical Center anesthetist accidentally slipped and punctured my lung, making it collapse. As I recovered from that morning's incisions, he detailed his mistake and said he was sorry. "I have two questions," I groggily...

Wisconsin's cap of $350,000 on medical malpractice awards for non-economic damages such as pain and suffering is unconstitutional, a split state Supreme Court ruled today. The court ruled 4-3 that the Legislature's rationale for implementing the caps on non-economic damages was too broad and speculative to accept and ruled the law violated the Wisconsin Constitution's equal protection guarantees. The Supreme Court said its decision does not strike down all caps under Wisconsin law in medical malpractice cases. Rather, its decision only applies to those for non-economic damages, awards meant to compensate for mental distress, loss of enjoyment of normal activity,...

REMEMBER ALL that uproar over the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance? The special session of the Maryland General Assembly four months ago? The emergency bill? The tax on HMO premiums to underwrite malpractice insurance costs? The veto and the veto override? Seems like ancient history now. But here's the peculiar thing: The doctors who were desperate for financial relief from those hefty malpractice insurance bills have gotten no help whatsoever from their insurers or the state. And they've been told not to expect any assistance until July 1 at the earliest. Maryland doctors should be furious about this. Consumers,...

The President, whose efforts to change the tort system have been buoyed by successful passage of a class action reform bill, said that becoming a part of the federal government when he was elected made him a convert to the notion of a national medical liability reform law. "When I first got to Washington, I thought that medical liability reform would best be handled at the state level until I realized what the cost was of the defensive practice of medicine, the cost of settling lawsuits, and the rising costs of premiums do to the federal budget," he said. "If...

Speaking before hundreds of doctors and medical workers in a St. Louis suburb last month, President Bush called attention to a neurosurgeon on stage with him in the small auditorium. The doctor, the president said, was paying $265,000 a year in premiums for insurance against malpractice claims. Such high prices, "don't start in an examining room or an operating room," the president declared. "They start in a courtroom." Indeed, at many recent appearances, Mr. Bush has complained about the "skyrocketing" costs of "junk lawsuits" against doctors and hospitals. But for all the worry over higher medical expenses, legal costs do...

...insurers that have raised malpractice premiums in recent years have tended to do so less because of soaring jury awards than because of declining stock market returns ...a troubling, lottery-style arbitrariness in juries' pain-and-suffering awards, whose median has soared from $474,536 in 1996 to more than $1 million Trial lawyers focus on claims with the highest reward potential while ignoring other claims with merit, and they admit they concentrate on states that have no caps on pain-and-suffering damages

Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has drafted legislation aimed at averting a financial crisis for Maryland doctors who will soon face their second double-digit increase in malpractice insurance rates. Ehrlich (R) put the finishing touches on the bill during a 20-hour flight home from China on Friday and delivered a copy late yesterday to House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel). The governor's proposal caps off a summer-long campaign for malpractice reform and sets the stage for a possible special legislative session on the politically charged issue. The governor called his approach a "compromise plan" but said he was uncertain...

2005 should be the year long-awaited and much-needed lawsuit reform happens. It's well-documented that lawsuit abuse costs Americans dearly. Tort costs in 2002, the most recent year available, were $233 billion. That is equivalent to the gross domestic products of Albania, Belarus, Bolivia, Cambodia, Luxembourg and New Zealand, combined! Reforming our nation's lawsuit friendly courts and reining in trial lawyers is more than just saving money for a bunch of insurance companies. Our litigious society has made the price of doing business - just about any business - much more expensive. And those costs are passed on to you. Consider...

The Emperor Has No Clothes By: Brian Tracy John Kerry is neither a “war hero” nor a “patriot.” It is about time that someone pointed out that “the emperor has no clothes” and that Americans are being presented with a false choice. If you read the newspapers long enough, a series of facts emerge that appear undeniable and irrefutable. But no one seems to want to “connect the dots” for fear of offending the powers that be in the national media, such as CBS. Here is what we know. First of all, Kerry did not “volunteer” for service in Vietnam....