Sources: National Cancer Institute; American Cancer Society; PUBMED THE LIVER is one of the largest organs in the body. It has four lobes and fills the upper right side of the abdomen inside the rib cage. Among it's important functions are: Filtering harmful substances from the blood; Making bile to help digest fats from food; and, [...]
Sources: Harvard School of Public Health; Annals of Internal Medicine online; BBC Health News; Case experience RESEARCHERS from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have recently suggested that routine mammography screening, the current essential tool in detecting early breast cancers, may lead to a significant amount of overdiagnosis of disease that would otherwise have proved harmless. Analyzing [...]
Sources: Danish Medical Journal -Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica; MEDLINE; Years of Medical Malpractice Litigation Experience with Women's Health Issues URETERAL injury is one of the most serious complications of obstetric and gynecologic surgery. Injuries to the urinary tract, particularly the ureter, are the most common cause for legal action against obstetric and gynecologic surgeons. Iatrogenic [...]
Source: Danish Medical Journal -Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica DANISH researchers, in connection with the Department of Anesthesia of the University of Copenhagen and the Insurance Association of Denmark, have studied reports of 136 ureteral injuries which constitute surgical malpractice in gynecological and obstetrical surgeries which resulted in litigation and insurance claims. Their findings? Failure to dissect and identify the [...]
Source: ScienceDaily; R. L. Vinall, J. Q. Chen, N. E. Hubbard, S. S. Sulaimon, M. M. Shen, R. W. DeVere White, A. D. Borowsky. Initiation of prostate cancer in mice by Tp53R270H, 2012 Researchers from University of California Davis, have found that a genetic mutation may play an important role in the development of prostate cancer. [...]
Sources: Johns Hopkins University; MEDLINE Researchers at Johns Hopkings University's School of Medicine have recently made their long-term review of autospy case studies known. According to their extrapolation, "Our data suggest that as many as 40,500 adult patients (1 in 4) in an ICU in USA may die with an ICU misdiagnoses annually. Despite this, diagnostic errors [...]
Sources: Duke Medical School, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, Vol. 82, Issue 5, 1 April 2012, p. 781; NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer; National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence; James Buchanan Brady Institute at Johns Hopkins Memorial Hospital; Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital Editorial After 30 years of Medical Malpractice Litigation, I have come to recognize that medicine has patterns [...]
Sources: Choosing Wisely.org (An Initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation) Press Release; NY Times Health Blog Under the "educational initiative" of Choosing Wisely, led by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation and involving 8 other specialty boards are recommending less routine testing for their patients. The thought process is that unnecessary [...]
Source: NJ Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHSS) What are Ambulatory Surgery Centers? Ambulatory Surgery Centers or "Same Day Surgery Centers" are facilities where patients can undergo certain types of surgery or medical procedures, recover and go home the same day. Eye, knee and shoulder surgery, cosmetic surgery, and procedures such as colonoscopy screening for [...]
Sources: US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Cancer.org Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer Amercian men will face. 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. The American Cancer Society 2012 estimates for prostate cancer in the United States are: 241,740 new cases of prostate cancer will [...]