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Doctors fear work caps for residents may be bad medicine

March 22, 2010

A few months ago, Glen Silas, 40, an obstetrics and gynecology doctor at George Washington University Hospital, wanted a young resident to observe a sophisticated procedure in which a renowned laparoscopic surgeon was operating on a uterine tumor. Silas was certain the resident would eagerly embrace the opportunity.

 

But as doctors gathered in the staging area, the resident declined, telling Silas, “I am at the end of my shift anyhow, so I will see it another time.”

 

Read Article:  Washington Post

 

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Files Logging Scout Abuse Are a Focus in Civil Trial

PORTLAND, Ore. — Files kept secret for decades that detail hundreds of claims of child sexual abuse by troop leaders of the Boy Scouts of America are at the center of a civil court case that began here Wednesday.

 

Lawyers for a victim say the files show a centralized national effort to conceal abuse while lawyers for the Boy Scouts say the files demonstrate proactive efforts to stop it. The group has acknowledged that abuse occurred.

 

Read Article:  The New York Times

 

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Unusual damages set in Phila. bedsores case

In an highly unusual step for such a case, a Philadelphia jury yesterday leveled $5 million in punitive damages against Jeanes Hospital and a Wyncote nursing home in the death of a man who developed ultimately fatal bedsores while at both facilities.

 

The damages – $1.5 million against Jeanes and $3.5 million against the Hillcrest Convalescent Home – came two weeks after the same Common Pleas Court jury awarded $1 million in compensatory damages in the case. The damages were awarded to the widow of Joe N. Blango, who died of bedsores in 2008, two years after being discharged from Jeanes Hospital in the city’s Fox Chase section.

 

Read Article:  Philly.com

 

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Lawsuit Cites Mishandling of Football Concussions

A former Arena Football League player filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that a team doctor mistreated his concussions two years ago, resulting in permanent injury.

 

The lawsuit, filed in state court in Denver, is perhaps the first in which a professional football player has claimed malpractice with regard to concussion care since football head injuries gained national prominence three years ago.

 

Read Article:  The New York Times

 

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Motorcyclist sues Stinger and her ex

Former Fox 2 broadcaster Fanchon Stinger had a fast Ferrari. And she let her ex-boyfriend and convicted felon Rayford Jackson tool around in it.

 

So says a five-page personal injury lawsuit filed March 8 against Stinger and Jackson in Oakland County Circuit Court by a man who claims Jackson was driving the car registered to Stinger when he crashed into his 2002 Honda motorcycle on May 19, 2007.

 

The plaintiff, David Sugg, 37, formerly of St. Clair Shores, said in the lawsuit that the 2006 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti swerved in a “violent manner” on I-696, near I-75, and crashed into him causing him to “lose control and to fall to the ground at highway speed.”

 

Read Article:  Freep.Com

 

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