You Have to Wonder
February 2, 2010
I was on line early this morning and checking the Smith Nephew, DePuy, Zimmer and Stryker websites. These are medical device makers – like knees, hips – and due to
William D Tyra III
January 31, 2010
William D. Tyra III TYRA William D. Tyra III, Col., USMC (Ret.), nickname “Jato,” age 58 of Trumbull, passed away on Friday, January 29, 2010 at St. Vincent Medical Center.
A good example of a smart but stupid man
January 26, 2010
One would think that a book reviewer for the New York Times would have intelligence. It has clearly been clouded by his education and arrogance. www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Jauhar-t.htmloks/review/Jauhar-t.html In his first paragraph he
Investigative Journalism-supports what we know to be true
January 25, 2010
As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose — which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe — be studied and talked about publicly so that others might not have to live his nightmare.
Sensing death was near, Mr. Jerome-Parks summoned his family for a final Christmas. His friends sent two buckets of sand from the beach where they had played as children so he could touch it, feel it and remember better days.
Mr. Jerome-Parks died several weeks later in 2007. He was 43.
A New York City hospital treating him for tongue cancer had failed to detect a computer error that directed a linear accelerator to blast his brain stem and neck with errant beams of radiation. Not once, but on three consecutive days.
Despite Years of Effort, "mishaps still happen"
January 20, 2010
Mishaps? I do believe that is quite the understatement for the person who dies each day from a medication error. Laura Landro in the Wall Street Journal continues to expose
They simply cannot help themselves
January 19, 2010
Johnson and Johson is accused of paying kickbacks to the nation’s largest nursing home pharmacy to increase the number of patients taking the antipsychotic Risperdal and several other medications. The
FDA More Pro-Industry Than Any Time in 35 Years
January 16, 2010
These are frightening findings. After so many years of attack on government – starting with the Reagan years, the integrity of so many of our regulators must be closely scrutinized.
Children Put in Danger's Way – criminal pediatrician who kept his practice
January 14, 2010
Concerns about doc’s alleged molestation went unheeded Parents are livid that several red flags raised about their pediatrician’s alleged child sexual abuse went ignored until his medical license was suspended
State Approves Double-Digit Insurance Rate Hikes
January 12, 2010
What is going on here? The Office of Legislative Research found that the state regulators have approved rate increase requests in 22 cases out of 26 since 2006. I guess
Medical errors – Third largest cause of death in the United States
January 11, 2010
The investigation found that nearly 9 percent, or 700 surgeons, admitted to having made a major mistake within the previous three months.