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Mar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:05:23 GMT

Suppressed Medical Records (File 5100-13465/001)

St. Catharines, Ontario

- Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Sect. 25,26,28)

- C.M.H.A / C.A.M.H. - Brock University

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A comment on Officials Find "Total Collapse" of Care at Local Assisted Living Facility

Jan Boswell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:13:57 GMT

I have reviewed many nursing home records. It is imperative that family members not only check out the facility but stay active in their care. Ask questions about medications, test, procedures, etc. Be involved and stay involved.

A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

jim oh — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:33:04 GMT

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this is the yellowbook listings for palm beach neurosurgeons. please notice that very few are neurosurgeons- they are neurologists. Look up Pohokee Ob's. My sis in laws OB from Miami moved to Mississippi. The article that you sent me mentions a neurosurgical case in Jupiter that was transfered to Gainsville !! They had to drive thru Orlando to get there.

people in the know head to
NY when they need brain work

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

jim ohare — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:08 GMT

Thanks for your comment Ed:

A jury of peers is meant for the defendant isnt itand not the accuser?. Lets say you pick a doc, I pick a doc and they agree on the 3 doc. we each bring an expert for liability causation and damages. we each get 2 hrs to x examine.

last year 700 mill spent on medmal, 190m of that expenses. 510 mil in indemnity, maybe 175 mil of that in atty fees and another 75 mil for your costs. So 440 mil of the 700 mil does not go to the injured. Not good and a problem.

Do you think that it would be fair to have peers decide if the roux en y nissan fundoplication was done correctly, or have the guy flipping burgers to weigh the complexities?

Bad docs have to go. At Physicians Ins co - we have defined a way to target the best risks. Turns out that 16% of the docs cause 83% of the claims.

How about all docs need insurance to practice? regards Jim vp medmal claims

The DOH is very tough on docs

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

jim ohare — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:03 GMT

A comment on Medical Malpractice Reform: The True Numbers?

Ed Normand — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:44:33 GMT

Jim:

I Googled Palm Beach County Neurosurgeons and came up with an article stating there are 22 neurosurgeons in that County. See for yourself: More ...

That still may be too few but the kind of hyperbole that says there are only 2 neurosurgeons in the county when there are really 22 is what makes of most of the substance of the tort reform mantra. That is like each state's tort reformers claiming all the doctors are leaving the state. Well, if they are leaving every state where are they going? Not out of the country. Last I checked we have more foreign physicians coming to the U.S. to practice every day.

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

Ed Normand — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:36:59 GMT

Jim, I am a little puzzled by your comment because it refers to arbitration and then says "jury of peers". Do you mean a jury of the health care provider’s peers or peers of the victim in an arbitration process? If it is a jury of the health care provider's peers that is the fox guarding the henhouse. I think that is part of the problem we have now in the Medical profession failing to police itself and failing to discipline health care providers that repeatedly harm others. We have surgeons in Orlando that have committed multiple wrong site surgeries and nothing happens. Then they repeatedly hurt patients and the malpractice rates rise for all. If they would get tough on bad doctors then there would be less malpractice. It is well known that most of the malpractice is caused by a small percentage of health care providers. By the way, the Florida Bar is very tough on bad lawyers. Many lawyers are disbarred or suspended each month and rightly so. Maybe that is part of the reason why there are fewer legal malpractice claims than medical malpractice claims.

A comment on Protecting Your College-Student from Alcohol

Janet Evans — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:27:06 GMT

Mark,
Very nicely said.
Janet

A comment on Medical Malpractice and Money

jim — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:53:29 GMT

Arent you arguing for a change in forum to arbitration? More money to the claimant, quicker process, lower costs, jury of peers. Why not? I read today in Florida that 3336 med mal claims were settled in 2008 for 700 million of which 189 million was costs and 511 million in indemnity.

You should be clear that the cap is only for pain ans suffering, all other causes of action are not capped. Past and future economoic loss, past and futire medical costs- all w/o caps.

Re limits is attorney fees- The best TT firms have their clients sign a waiver to get around the statute. This is a loophole predesigned prior to the 2003 Florida tort reform. Great cases always get referred to the best TT firms w/o much consideration given to the fees at endgame.
regards
jim vp medmal claims

A comment on Protecting Your College-Student from Alcohol

Ron Bogle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:58:18 GMT

Mark Willingham is right on the numbers is urging parents to assume more responsibility in preparing for and protecting their student from their collegiate experience. While we have made progress in reducing destructive drinking among 18 to 20 year-old non-students, we continue in the opposite direction among collegians. Abusive drinking in this age range is uniquely a problem of university culture. Binge drinking continues to increase there, along with the number of alcohol-related deaths. This does not begin to consider the potential permanent personal health damage (including damage to the brain, heart, liver, lungs, circulatory system, pancreas, genetic makeup, etc, etc) related to underage drinking, or the known high-risk behaviors for which alcohol is a catalyst. This includes violence, property damage, suicide, homicide, high-risk sexual activity, sexual assaults against woment - the list is endless.
Like tobacco products before it, we now know the health dangers associated with youthful consumption of alcohol - for teens, there is no such thing as a safe or healthy drink. We must recognize alcohol for what it really is - alcohol is an addictive drug responsible for killing more teens than all other drugs combined. Alcohol is the nation's leading drug problem.
A recent Columbia University study found that for every $1 collected in federal alcohol tax, we spend $9 cleaning up the mess related to alcohol and drug abuse. No legal product, in my opinion, imposes a greater financial or societal cost or burden than alcohol. The World Health Organization conservatively estimates that alcohol abuse costs our nation in excess of $200 billion annually. Underage drinking alone is estimated to cost our nation in excess of $60 billion annually in healthcare and other costs. Think about the costs of healthcare, broken families, criminal justice, social welfare, lost workplace productivity, domestic violence, sexual assaults, child abuse - the list of societal ills associated with alcohol misuse is endless.
The clock is ticking for university administrators on issues related to drinking among their students. It is only a matter of time before administrators confront liability issues related to their campus and the drinking environment they have created, supported or enabled. With recent studies finding that college freshmen now spend more time drinking than studying, it's time for a major course correction on the nation's campuses.
It's often argued that alumni are an impediment to progress, advocating for alcohol, for instance, during sporting events or opposing disciplinary action against their student drinking, particularly if it involves their own child. But other parents have a responsibility to offer their own voice and opinions to university administrations to oppose the alcohol fueled environment that exists on many campuses. As the old saying goes, "When the voices of the good people are silent, the only voices heard...."
At the end of the day, as parents we send our children to a particular college or university to obtain an education to prepare them for the future, not to prepare them as alcohol abusers to support the financial interests of the alcohol industry.
Many of our children have become the victims of our parental neglect of underage drinking. Now, for the first time in our history, we find that the majority of the nation's alcoholics are young people, age 26 or less. Many are teens.
At some point, instead of continuing to protect the financial interests of the alcohol industry, either directly or indirectly, we must get serious about protecting the interests of our children from the destructive effects of alcohol. Life is not about drinking alcohol, and accepting that teens do not understand the risks or consequences, it's time for adults to start acting like adults about this issue. Let college administrators hear your voice - let them know that you expect their institution to provide a safe environment and that you demand action to prevent abusive drinking among their students.