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Protecting Nursing Home Residents Who Wander

Posted on December 30, 2009
An editorial in the Bergen Record discussed the dangers of nursing home residents who wander from nursing homes. A resident at county-run Preakness Healthcare Center in Wayne, NJ, wandered out of the nursing home in subfreezing weather and was found more than two hours later...

Safety Tips for Towing a Trailer

Posted on December 22, 2009
This weekend in Comal County, a 59-year-old man was killed in a tragic accident, when two pickup trucks towing trailers collided. Incidents like this are upsetting to hear, especially around the holidays. It is important to always drive carefully and be a defensive driver...

Drive safely over the holidays!

Posted on December 17, 2009
This week alone there have been two head-on collision accidents resulting in four deaths in the San Antonio area. The circumstances behind these two tragic accidents are unknown, but both occurred on two-lane roads, after the drivers accidentally veered into oncoming traffic...

50 Million Shades Recalled

Posted on December 16, 2009
Yesterday morning the Today show reported on a recall of 50 million shades due to a strangulation risk for small children. On Tuesday the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that about 50 million window coverings need to be repaired to make them safe for kids...

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Doctor Wins Retaliation Lawsuit against Hospital

Posted on December 01, 2009
A radiation oncologist who previously worked for the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute won a potential $3 million verdict on charges that she was retaliated against for raising concerns about discrimination. The jury recommended that Dr. Kristina Gerszten be awarded $1...

Toyota?s Largest Ever Recall of Vehicles

Posted on November 30, 2009
Toyota Motor Corp. claims the gas pedal design in more than 4 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles makes them vulnerable to being trapped open by floor mats. On Wednesday it announced a costly recall to fix the problem. Although Toyota has repeatedly pointed to 'floor mat entrapment' as the problem over unintended acceleration events, more people are beginning to believe that the potential cause is the electronic throttle system that has replaced mechanical systems in recent years...

Texas Tort Reform: A Good National Model?

Posted on November 16, 2009
In 2003, the Texas Legislature passed medical liability reforms that capped non-economic damages for injured patients at $250,000, and brought the number of malpractice lawsuits down dramatically. The conservative position on health care reform is that medical malpractice claims drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice 'defensive medicine' which is costly and wasteful...

Power Windows: Risk for Children?

Posted on November 09, 2009
Since the introduction of power windows in the late 1950's and early 1960's, injuries and deaths have occurred due to safety hazards related to strangulation. The consumer group KidsandCars.org in Leawood, Kansas said in a press conference on November 2, 2009, that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is greatly underestimating the number of people injured or killed by power windows...

Hospital Fined for Wrong-Site Surgery

Posted on November 06, 2009
The Health Department has fined Rhode Island Hospital for $150,000, after a surgical team violated safety policies when it operated on the wrong finger of a patient. This October incident was the fifth-wrong site surgery at this hospital since January 2007...

Death at Calaveras Lake

Posted on November 02, 2009
For the second time this year, someone working on the new CPS Energy coal plant on Calaveras Lake fell to their death. In January, a scaffolding builder with Calaveras Power Partners, died in an accident while working at the construction site. He was working early in the morning so his fall wasn't seen or heard by other employees...

Medical Malpractice Insurers? Profits Higher than 99% of All Fortune 500 Companies

Posted on October 31, 2009
The American Association for Justice (AAJ) recently released a statistic claiming that medical malpractice insurance companies' average profits are higher than 99 percent of all Fortune 500 companies. AAJ points out that medical malpractice lawsuits only account for a small percentage of unnecessary costs...

Feds to Conduct an Intensive Study on Motorcycle Deaths

Posted on October 15, 2009
The Federal Highway Administration and Oklahoma State University will conduct an intensive study into the cause of the growing number of motorcycle crashes and deaths on America's roads. The study will be the first of its kind in nearly 30 years, and was required by a 2005 federal law, the 'Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act...

Meeting Tonight in San Antonio for Cyclists to Voice Their Concerns

Posted on October 14, 2009
After three people were struck and killed within a week of each other while cycling legally, cyclists and pedestrians are asking what can be done to improve safety. Tonight, a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) meeting will be held so people can come and voice their concerns...

Elderly women choked at San Antonio Nursing Home

Posted on October 13, 2009
Janice Maier, 77, was a sleep in her bed at a senior care facility when she was awaken early Saturday morning when a man entered her room, climbed into her bed and began to choke her and repeatedly hit her in the face. The attack occurred at Clare Bridge Specialized Memory Care, a Brookdale Senior Living facility on the Northeast side...

Motorcycle Accidents and Helmet Laws

Posted on September 29, 2009
Just this morning while looking through the news, I found three articles relating to motorcycle accident deaths in central Texas. The first was a U.S. Army soldier, Luke D. Yustin, 25, from Killeen, Texas who died on Friday in a motorcycle crash in Gillespie County...

Student killed while jogging

Posted on September 28, 2009
A University of the Incarnate Word student was killed while jogging in San Antonio. The student was training for the Rock ‘n' Roll San Antonio Marathon, when he was accidentally struck from behind by an SUV. He later died at Brooke Army Medical Center...

Your negligence in a car accident may affect the jury award

Posted on September 24, 2009
One of the biggest issues arising after a car accident is determining who is to blame. Sometimes it is obvious who was at fault, i.e. another driver runs a red-light and hits your car. While in other cases it can be hard to determine who is to blame...

$12 Million Verdict in Raymondville Tire Maker Court Case

Posted on September 15, 2009
A Willacy County jury returned an $11.96 million judgment against Michelin North America on Thursday, after finding defective tires caused a wreck that killed six people and left a 12-year-old boy paralyzed. A manufacturing flaw in a Goodrich tire, made by Michelin North America, substantially contributed to a New Year's Eve 2006 crash just outside of Matamoros...

Geriatric Specialists

Posted on August 27, 2009
Geriatric specialist plays important role in aiding the aging population who need specialized medical care. America needs to work to expand people coming into this field especially with our growing elderly population. According to the New York Times, a new program is allowing medical students to experience life as a nursing home patient by living in a nursing home for two weeks...

Older drivers unaware of risks from drug side effects

Posted on August 19, 2009
According to a new study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in USA Today, many older drivers who take prescribed medication are unaware of the side effects that can affect their performance behind the wheel. The study conducted detailed interviews of 630 people between the ages of 59 and 63 and found: People with one or more medical conditions – 95% People using one or more potentially driver-impairing prescription medications – 69% People who have received warnings about such medications from health care professional – 18% People using five or more prescriptions that are potentially driver-impairing – 10% What is most unsettling about this study is that researchers found that the drivers' awareness of potential side effects decreased with age just as the number of prescription medications people take increased...

Medical Errors

Posted on August 12, 2009
Ten years ago, "To Err is Human" the highly publicized federal report called for a mandatory nationwide reporting system for medical errors, which the AMA and the American Hospital Association strongly opposed. The groups believe that mandatory reporting would only drive medical errors underground...

Leading Cause of Accidental Death in America is Mistakes in Medical Care

Posted on August 10, 2009
There was an excellent article about medical mistakes on the front page of the San Antonio Express News this Sunday. The article states that the leading cause of accidental death in America is mistakes made in medical care. According to the Hearst report, 'The Texas discharge records showed there were at least 29 deaths at 15 San Antonio hospitals in 2007 resulting from low-risk procedures...

Update on La Salle County Nursing Home Sex Abuse Investigation

Posted on August 07, 2009
Recently I blogged about a La Salle County Nursing Home under investigation due to a male resident molesting 10 female residents. The nursing home now faces monetary damages from federal and possibly state health authorities. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has since sent a recommendation to U...

Charging Texas Nurses Sends a Bad Signal to All Whistleblowers

Posted on July 27, 2009
The indictment of two registered nurses in West Texas that I recently blogged about, has set a bad precedent and could have a negative effect on all whistleblowers in the medical profession. The two registered nurses were charged with misuse of official information for including patient's medical record numbers in their anonymous complaint to the Texas Medical Board...

Texas nurses facing third-degree felony charges after filing complaint

Posted on July 24, 2009
Two West Texas nurses, 53-year-old- Vickie Galle and 51-year-old Anne Mitchell, have been indicted after filing an anonymous complaint about a local doctor's practices with the Texas Medical Board. The nurses have been fired and charged with misuse of official information, a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years behind bars, and a $10,000 fine...

Medical Malpractice Payments Fall to All-time Low

Posted on July 23, 2009
The watchdog group Public Citizen has reported that medical malpractice payments continued to fall across the country last year and only account for a minuscule portion of health-care costs. According to data from the federal government's national Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), the number of payouts declined for the third straight year...

MRI Dye Linked to Disease

Posted on July 14, 2009
Another person has joined the 516 other plaintiffs in a massive lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that make certain dyes used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The dye is used during an MRI to help technicians examine the tissue. Patients with healthy kidneys can simply flush the gadolinium out of their system, but people with renal impairment can be diagnosed with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) after being injected with the contrast agent...

Sex Offenders in Nursing Homes

Posted on July 11, 2009
A male resident at La Salle County Nursing Home who molested 10 female residents earlier this year has been moved from the nursing home to an unidentified psychiatric facility. Incidents, such as this one, have led to the questions: Can sex offenders live in county homes? What has the county done to protect women at nursing homes? The La Salle County Nursing Home has taken more than a dozen steps after the Illinois Department of Public Health said that administrators failed to protect female residents from the molestations of a male resident...

Swimming Pools Still Non Compliant with Pool Drains

Posted on July 10, 2009
Back in January I blogged on this very subject wherein 80% of public swimming pools were in violation of a federal safety rule preventing people becoming trapped in pool drains. It is now July, the middle of the summer and swimming is in full force exposing adults and children to this deadly hazard of unsafe pool drains...

Jury Awards 10 million in Heparin Case

Posted on July 04, 2009
In Houston, Texas, a jury recently awarded 10 million in a medical malpractice case against Methodist Hospital and the doctors who treated John German. He sustained an amputation of his left leg above the knee, all the toes on his right foot and all of his fingers following heart surgery...

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