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Cerebral Palsy

Medical Malpractice – A Bogie?

by Jerry Meyers on April 30, 2010

Doctors knowingly fail to cooperate to make medicine safe because they would then be required to practice safe medicine, and be held accountable if they fail. In the recent issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology,[1] Drs. Strunk and Queenan in their advocacy for an administrative compensation plan to replace the tort system in providing compensation for [...]

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If Mothers only Knew- Revisited

by Jerry Meyers on August 27, 2009

News-Medical.net also reports on the trial confirming the neuro protective effect of magnesium sulfate I earlier discussed in “If Mother Only Knew.”  This report misses the point that many physicians still think the standard of practice still does not require that magnesium sulfate be administered to mothers threatening preterm delivery prior to 32 weeks.   Rouse [...]

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If Mothers Only Knew

by Jerry Meyers on July 20, 2009

In an opinion piece published in the June issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Dwight J. Rouse from the Center of Women’s Reproductive Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggests that a thousand fewer children each year would suffer from handicapping cerebral palsy if magnesium sulfate were uniformly administered [...]

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