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In 1998 the United States Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the healthcare industry adopted a Patient Bill of Rights. The same year Pennsylvania enacted a Patient Bill of Rights allegedly for the purpose of providing quality healthcare accountability and protection under Act 68 of 1998. It is interesting that the legislature of [...]
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The Associated Press reported July 17, that two West Texas nurses had been indicted with felony charges because they filed an anonymous complaint with the Texas Medical Board. Their complaint letter asserted that a physician at the Winkler County Memorial Hospital and Health Clinic encouraged patients to buy herbal medicines and that the physician also [...]
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Ordering tests that are considered medically unnecessary is not defensive medicine but simply thoughtless medicine. I am a lawyer of 35 years experience in representing patients and their families who are victims of medical malpractice. My clients are harmed by thoughtlessness and failed communications and not because an unneeded medical test was not performed. The [...]
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