Medics rap personal injury firms
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MPs, doctors and medical bodies have slammed offers of money to GPs for referring patients with compensation claims.
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A Merseyside law firm is offering GPs money for referring patients with compensation claims.
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Doctors working for the U.S. military in Iraq collaborated with interrogators in the abuse of detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, profoundly breaching medical ethics and human rights, a bioethicist charges in The Lancet medical journal.
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FREDERICK, Md. -- Doctors in Maryland and around the country are increasingly using methods popularized by labor organizers to counter rising premiums for malpractice coverage.
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Doctors and nurses are setting up mobile casualty units to deal with drunk and injured revellers.
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Patients with serious injuries are put at risk by untested and potentially dangerous treatments, experts say.
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Doctors accuse the government of trying to privatise general practice over guidance on new practices.
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The company sues rival Protected Vehicles for a whole slew of offenses.
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People who carry out executions can sue others who disclose their identities, under a new law that followed reports that a doctor who attended Missouri executions had been sued for malpractice more than 20 times.
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Several of the largest health care providers in the county have sued the Sheriff&#39;s Department, claiming they have been shortchanged by at least $1.2 million over the past 15 months for medical care given to sick jail inmates.
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Also today, the F.B.I. said two other medical doctors arrested in connection with the bungled attacks had inquired about practicing medicine in the U.S.
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The British Medical Association has called for a ban on mixed martial arts competitions, including "ultimate fighting", on the grounds they can cause traumatic brain injury.
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The political battle in Maryland to limit medical malpractice lawsuits is also underway in Virginia and the District, where doctors and hospitals are pressing for greater restrictions on who can sue for a medical mistake and how much can be collected.
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During a recent visit to Jaipur I was informed that in the last two years the clinics and nursing homes of over 30 doctors had been attacked by attendants and friends of patients and the public.
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Since last spring, a phalanx of trial lawyers who made millions suing asbestos makers and tobacco companies have been targeting tax-exempt hospitals, accusing them of gouging the poor.
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Overseas doctors face discrimination after recent suspected failed bomb attacks, warn medics.
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A doctor and his patient are facing off in a medical malpractice trial that has tongues wagging as much about the players as about what they are fighting over: Botox.