Saturday, October 11, 2003

Withdrawal of "futile" life-sustaining treatment over family objection.

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The Baby Miller case discussed here on Sept. 30, involved the resuscitation of a newborn over the objections of parents who wanted no heroic...
Thursday, October 09, 2003

Med-mal crisis hits Australia.

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Just as in a dozen or more states in the U.S., Australian doctors are claiming that skyrocketing med-mal premiums are forcing them out of th...
Tuesday, October 07, 2003

Medicine and the practice of capital punishment.

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Two articles in today's New York Times discuss two points of intersection between the practice of medicine and the death penalty: 1....
Monday, October 06, 2003

Minority children: over- or underrepresented in medical research?

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There's an excellent news release from the University of Chicago today about the participation of minority children in research studies...
Sunday, October 05, 2003

A heart transplant program too good to be true.

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The Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union has an article in today's paper about Albany Med's three-year-old heart-transplant program. Seems i...
Saturday, October 04, 2003

The parents vs. physicians trap

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The October 13 issue of U.S. News and World Report continues the Baby Miller theme of parents vs. physicians with this report on the confl...
Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Baby Miller case decided by Texas Supreme Court

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One year, five months, and twenty-seven days after oral argument, the Texas Supreme Court decided the Baby Miller case today. The court, wh...

Big Increase Seen in People Lacking Health Insurance

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Robert Pear of the New York Times has an article on the Census Bureau's report on health coverage and the uninsured. Texas's per...
Monday, September 29, 2003

New form of defensive medicine.

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Modern Healthcare's Daily Dose has a short piece today about a new report from the Center for Studying Health System Change . As DD r...

End-of-life care and the battle over medical proxy's right to decide.

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The Boston Globe published a lengthy article in Sunday's edition about an elderly woman in a locked-in state and the attempts by Mass....
Sunday, September 28, 2003

The Times got it wrong.

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An article in today's New York Times follows up on research first published last year in the medical journals Brain (abstract only; f...
Saturday, September 27, 2003

Medicare reform.

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Saul Friedman argues in today's Newsday ("GRAY MATTERS: Ideology and Meanness in Medicare Debate") that "as it now stan...
Thursday, September 25, 2003

When an untested drug is a patient's last chance.

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An article in the Boston Globe this week explored the problems faced vby patients with terminal illnesses who have run out of drugs to hel...
Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Boston Children's Hospital.

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More cases, going back three years, not just one (the main focus of the Mass. Department of Public Health's scathing report last week), ...

Children's Hospital in Boston.

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With The Boston Globe's archive policy, it's hard to find the links to all of its articles about the investigations into deaths ther...

214th birthday of the Judiciary Act of 1789.

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Please allow a former teacher of Civil Procedure and Federal Courts to note the anniversary of the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1789 . B...
Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Medical error at a children's hospital

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The Boston Globe has printed another good article on the recent deaths at the local children's hospital, this time focusing on the sys...
Monday, September 22, 2003

Proposition 12: the dawning of a new day . . . .

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Here's a good one from the unbeatable Ben Sargent . . . http://www.ucomics.com/bensargent/2003/09/16/
Sunday, September 21, 2003

Case study of medical error in one of the best pediatric hospitals in the US.

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This Boston Globe article should be required reading for anyone who is serious about addressing medical error in complex, high-quality, te...

End-of-life decision making.

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This week's New England Journal of Medicine published a contribution to much-needed research into the way decisions are made about life-...