The Patient Advocate

In 1998 the United States Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the healthcare industry adopted a Patient Bill of Rights. The same year

Kevin Pho, M.D in his medical blog, Kevinmd.com, invites a discussion concerning whether elderly patients should choose premature death at home rather than being subjected

News-Medical.net also reports on the trial confirming the neuro protective effect of magnesium sulfate I earlier discussed in “If Mothers Only Knew.”  This report misses the

I believe the public at large has for decades laboured under the impression that here we enjoy the best medical care available (Untrue. By most

The Associated Press reported July 17, that two West Texas nurses had been indicted with felony charges because they filed an anonymous complaint with the

Ordering tests that are considered medically unnecessary is not defensive medicine but simply thoughtless medicine. I am a lawyer of 40 years experience in representing

In a previous post I briefly discussed how communication failures in the transmission of test results are common.  Many people think that widespread use of

The Archives of Internal Medicine, June 22, 2009, published results of a retrospective medical record review involving nineteen community based and four academic medical center

The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, May 2, 2009, Volume 200, Number 5, publishes the results of a study conducted in partnership by the

For the value of HPV screening for cervical cancer in the USA The April 2, 2009 Issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes