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the trauma negligence case
James R. Bartimus and Anthony L. DeWitt
Many trauma centers are medical disasters waiting to happen.
Surgeons are often overworked and have little training in trauma
care, and facilities frequently lack essential resources. Follow
these guidelines to build your case that negligence contributed
to your client’s injuries.
Doctor, heal thy care
Interview with Peter Pronovost
After studying how inherently hazardous industries like nuclear
power plants, airlines, and railroads use checklists to maintain
safe environments, Peter Pronovost, a critical care doctor at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, had an “aha”
moment. In this interview, he talks about how checklists he
has developed for hospitals have dramatically reduced patients’
infection rates and hospital stays.
When the sick get sicker in
the hospital
Denis C. Mitchell
It’s an alarming fact that some people get sicker during
a hospital stay than they were before they arrived. Infection
is the chief culprit. Identifying the type of infection, its
route of transmission, and how it could have been prevented
will provide the crucial clues to what happened and help you
establish who was at fault.
The injustice of health courts
Francine A. Hochberg
Proponents of so-called health courts compare them to administrative
systems like workers’ comp or tax courts and say they’ll
provide uniformity, a streamlined process, and lower costs.
But these supporters are selling a tort-“reform”
snake oil that could prove toxic to consumers. Health courts
would leave many plaintiffs without recourse, impose draconian
caps on damages, and violate constitutional rights. And they
won’t do anything to improve health care or lower insurance
rates.
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Glimpsing the future for an amputee
Conal Doyle
When you represent a client who has lost a limb, one of the
most important factors you’ll have to determine is the
cost of future care. Technological advances constantly improve
prosthetic devices and give amputees ever-greater mobility and
quality of life, but their cost continues to rise. The right
experts—an economist and a prosthetist—can help
you make a persuasive case for the realistic, projected costs
that an amputee will face in the future.
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Departments
President’s page
The benefits of collaboration
Letters
Supreme Court review
A troubling trend in preemption rulings
Reflections
Disastrous experts—and how to avoid
them
Good counsel
Hearsay
Justice in motion
AAJ opposes tort 'reform' provision of
Bush's Medicare plan
In FDA preemption cases, a loss on devices,
a close call on drugs
Two new birth injury packets augment resources
for members handling medical negligence cases
2008 attorney general elections will appoint
'top plaintiffs'
Nursing home trial skills college debuts
in Florida
At World Meeting, lawyers face global
problem of tort 'reform'
For professional negligence lawyers, networking
in the 'City of Brotherly Love'
Books
How to Try a Jury Case: Trial Tactics
by John F. Kimberling
Extraordinary Justice: Military
Tribunals in Historical and International Context by
Peter Judson Richards
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