Category: Medical Procedures
Stroke Scans Can Result In Serious Health Risks
Before you or a loved one gets an after stroke scan people read this article from the New York Times today exposing serious unknown issues. Among patients tested for strokes with a complex type of brain scan, radiation overdoses were more widespread than previously known, a New York Times examination has found. To read the [...]
Same-Sex Couple Wins Landmark Med Mal Practice Award
BRIDGEPORT, July 2, 2010 – A Stamford Superior Court jury today awarded $2.45 million for the estate of Margaret Mueller who died as a result of a wrong cancer diagnosis by doctors at the Stamford Hospital. In reaching its verdict the jury agreed with the lawsuit, which alleged that Dr. Iris Wertheim of Stamford Hospital [...]
Hartford Medical Group Billing Investigated As Two Patients Thrown Out Of Practice
One of the largest medical practices in Connecticut is under investigation by the state attorney general’s office for its billing practices after two patients were thrown out for creating a fuss over being charged additional office visit fees as part of their routine physicals.
Two West Hartford residents were told by Dr. Kent Stahl, CEO of Hartford Medical Group, which serves 50,000 patients, that they were no longer welcome in the practice.
Discharging Heart Patients Early Backfires, Causing Repeat Hospitalization
One of the government’s and hospitals’ way of reducing health costs has been to shorten hospital stays for all categories, including heart treatments. Unfortunately, the latest studies show that cutting down hospital stays has too frequently resulted in problems requiring re-admission. In a Wall Street Journal story today by Ron Winslow, he reports on a [...]
Dental Vacations: Save Money, Increase Risk, Do Your Homework
Due to lousy teeth from childhood on, Anna Baker was facing a difficult decision as an adult: get dentures or spend more than $50,000 for implants. But after seeing a story on CNN about a woman who saved thousands of dollars by going overseas for dental work, Baker, of Westchester County, decided to look into [...]
Health Insurance Legislation Has Some Lesser-Known Cost-Reduction Features
While it will take years before we know all the intended and unintended consequences of the historic health legislation, there are two provisions I have read about that I like. The reason I like them is that they are likely to reduce health costs – the critical part of keeping insurance and medical care affordable [...]
Artificial Hip Replacements: Complications Seen In Metal-On-Metal Devices
If you are considering an artificial hip replacement, make sure you discuss with your doctors a new editorial in the Journal of Arthroplasty warning of complications with a popular medical procedure. LawyersandSettlements.com, a leading Internet site for consumer lawyers, notes that the Journal is warning doctors to use metal-on-metal devices only with “great caution, if [...]
CT Scans: Radiation Level Hundreds Of Times Higher Than Dental X-Rays
A dental X-ray has an effective mrem radiation dose of 2, according to the American College of Radiology, while a CT spine scan has a dose of 600. And high radiation doses is known to cause cancer. That is why, according to today’s Informed Patient column in the Wall Street Journal, federal regulators, hospitals and [...]
Before ANY Surgery, Demand Risk Assessment
Any time you go into the hospital for any procedure there is a risk, and hospitals on the cutting edge of medicine, like Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, will tell patients about it. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, The Informed Patient Columnist Laura Landro explores computer risk generators that tell patients the [...]
Greater Hospital Error Disclosure Requested By Conn AG
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today called for legislation requiring greater disclosure, investigative authority and increased civil penalties for medical errors at hospitals. (This is a press release but I TOTALLY agree with it CtWatchdog). Blumenthal and Connecticut Center for Patient Safety Executive Director Jean Rexford testified along with people who lost spouses or experienced a [...]
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