- Steve Klearman | December 29, 2007 10:37 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeAs reported yesterday, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners disciplined a record number of doctors at its last meeting.The Board has come under scrutiny in recent years for a variety of practices. In fact, according to a Reno Gazette Journal article dated December 12, 2007, our Nevada Board is one of the worst in the United States for disciplining doctors. A Reno Gazette Journal inquiry...
- Steve Klearman | December 28, 2007 10:28 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn the most recent Nevada Board of State Medical Examiners meeting, seven medical doctors and one physician's assistant were disciplined. The Reno Gazette reports that this is the largest number of disciplinary actions at one meeting in several years.Professionals disciplined include: Gregory Bryan, M.D., Michael Sullivan, P.A., Gilles Desmaires, M.D., David Linden, M.D., Stuart Steel, M.D.,...
- Steve Klearman | December 27, 2007 10:20 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAntidepressants are again under scrutiny.According to a Yahoo! News Article dated December 18, 2007, the Supreme Court will hear a case regarding a teen, Christopher Pittman, sentenced to 30 years of prison for killing his grandparents and setting fire to their home at age 12. His attorneys argue that the lengthy sentence violates the teen's Eighth Amendment protection from cruel and unusual...
- Steve Klearman | December 26, 2007 10:12 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsAh the new and complicated world of how email production is handled by courts.Scott Roseland, at cybercontrols (www.cybercontrols.net), cites to Benton v. Dlorah, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. D. Kan, Oct. 30, 2007. There, the plaintiff informed defendant at her deposition that she had deleted e-mails, and defendant filed a motion to compel plaintiff to produce relevant documents, to produce her hard...
- Steve Klearman | December 20, 2007 7:56 AM |
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MiscellaneousYes, every now and then I stray from injury law, sometimes into other areas of law, sometimes further.Associated Press writer, Janet Frankston Lorin, reports that David Chase, the well-known creator of the Sopranos (and other fine entertainment) is in the midst of a lawsuit.At issue is whether the services Robert Baer provided during Chase's development of "The Sopranos" pilot should be...
- Steve Klearman | December 19, 2007 7:02 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsDriving in Reno is not (nearly) as bad as driving in Southern California or New York City, but we still have our share of accidents. A UNR civil engineer professor and some UNR students are now researching roads and intersections in the Reno area to make them safer and less accident prone. The project entails videotaping certain intersections and studying tire marks or warning signs in "fender...
- Steve Klearman | December 18, 2007 7:17 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeHere is a list of ten questions from MSN, commented on by John S. Ford, MD, MPH in his California Medicine Man blog dated December 13, 2007 1) Do I really need this test? Great question but the author is preaching not to the choir, but to the tree stump. It's pretty well documented that as far as the patient is concerned: "Nothing is too good for my health...as long as someone else is footing...
- Steve Klearman | December 18, 2007 7:09 AM |
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MiscellaneousAlright, perhaps "plague" is too strong a word...Last week the Washoe County District Health Department issued a boil water order for Cabela's and Boomtown Hotel and Casino. This was due to total coliform bacteria found in their water supply. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, total coliform bacteria are "natural and common inhabitants of soil and ambient waters (such as lakes and...
- Steve Klearman | December 17, 2007 1:42 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeObesity makes it harder for some people to fight infections and heal wounds, according to a Yahoo! News Article dated December 12, 2007. This may be due to the tendency of obese people to have weakened immune responses.In a Boston University Research study, researchers tied silk threads laced with gum disease to the teeth of obese mice and mice of regular weight to compare the animals' response...
- Steve Klearman | December 14, 2007 9:51 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsReno is still pretty dangerous and challenging for bicyclists. This is largely due to the need for a better route of paths, better marked paths and a need for a better continuation of the paths network. Does this mean that Reno is an unsafe place for bicyclists to ride overall? Not necessarily, but there are certain precautions that every bicyclist should take, aside from simply wearing helmets...
- Steve Klearman | December 13, 2007 9:44 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsThe name Aqua-Dots sends chills down the spine of families in the U.S. If you haven't heard about the recall that happened last month, then you are likely in the minority. About 4 million units of the product were recalled last month because they break down into a date-rape drug when ingested. Currently 10 retailers and companies including Kmart, Walmart, Sears, Target and Mattel are being...
- Steve Klearman | December 12, 2007 9:36 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeAccording to a Reno Gazette Journal Article dated November 30, 2007, the new Reno triage center may have its budget cut after Governor Jim Gibbons ordered state agencies to submit lists for an 8% budget cut this month. This cut was an increase from an original 5% cut due to declining sales and gaming tax revenues.The triage center is a center to help homeless people with mental health or...
- Steve Klearman | December 11, 2007 9:29 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeThousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive substance used in those examinations -- all because of the shutdown of one nuclear reactor in Canada. According to Associated Press writers Charmaine Noronha and Stephanie Nano, the substance is used in at least 15 million medical scans a year in the United States, by one estimate. Those scans...
- Steve Klearman | December 07, 2007 2:45 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeAs Nevada's population of those with mental heatlh problems grows, the state has determined that it cannot spend as much as it did previously.According to a Reno Gazette Journal Article dated November 30, 2007, the new Reno triage center may have its budget cut after Governor Jim Gibbons ordered state agencies to submit lists for an 8% budget cut this month. This cut was an increase from an...
- Steve Klearman | December 06, 2007 6:38 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsGeneral Electric recalled 92,000 combination wall and microwave ovens after at least 35 incidents of fire that damaged property, the company and the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday. According to a Yahoo News article yesterday, the door switch in the microwave oven can overheat and ignite plastic components in the appliance, the company said.The lower thermal oven does not pose...
- Steve Klearman | December 05, 2007 9:02 AM |
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Medical MalpracticeA startling 11% of those in a 200,000-patient national sample did not receive a lymph node assessment while undergoing surgery for early-stage breast cancer. The recommended practice promotes disease staging and appropriate treatment selection. Garth Sullivan, Esq., at Indox Consulting (415-568-7116) reports that researchers explored the impact of patient race and ethnicity, insurance status,...
- Steve Klearman | December 05, 2007 6:31 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsTests on more than 1,200 children's products, most of them still on store shelves, found that 35 percent contain lead -- many with levels far above the federal recall standard used for lead paint. According to an AP article released today, a Hannah Montana card game case, a Go Diego Go! backpack and Circo brand shoes were among the items with excessive lead levels in the tests performed by a...
- Steve Klearman | December 04, 2007 4:45 AM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsRelax: your cell phone might not be a bomb after all.A South Korean man whose death initially was blamed on an exploding cell phone battery was killed by a car accident involving his colleague, police said Friday.The International Herald Tribune reports (November 29th) that the quarry worker, only identified by his family name Seo, was found dead Wednesday with a melted phone battery in his...
- Steve Klearman | December 03, 2007 12:51 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn Nevada, as elsewhere, one has to look out of state to find a medical expert witness to testify. Nevada doctors do not testify against each other. Similarly, I suspect that a review of State Board of Medical Examiners complaints would reveal that the vast majority of such complaints come from patients.It comes as little surprise, therefore, that nearly half of all U.S. doctors fail to report...
- Steve Klearman | December 03, 2007 8:48 AM |
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MiscellaneousIn American, politics and injury law are sometimes hard to separate, and attorneys are often misidentified as liberal or conservative depending on their view of whether an injured party deserves compensation. At the end of the day, we're all Americans though (and let's face it: those who support adequate compensation for victims are better Americans)...I have a background in international law,...
- Steve Klearman | December 03, 2007 4:37 AM |
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MiscellaneousEight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, according to Yahoo News citing the Idaho Statesman newspaper. Amid pressure from top GOP leaders in Washington, Craig announced his intent to resign from the Senate. He later changed his mind, deciding to finish out his term, which...
- Steve Klearman | December 01, 2007 12:26 PM |
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Medical MalpracticeIn Martinez v. Maruszczak, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 43 (October 11, 2007), the Nevada Supreme Court considered " the extent to which sovereign immunity protects publicly employed physicians from common-law liability for medical malpractice."The Court's analysis turned "on Nevada's statutory waiver of sovereign immunity and a statutory exception to that waiver, which immunizes state actors from...