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Great news for patient advocates and families everywhere.
A South Florida jury last week awarded $7.75 million to the family of a 71-year-old stroke victim who filed an elder abuse lawsuit against the Fillmore Convalescent Center.
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We seem to have a new candidate for the award for best-paid CEO of a not-for-profit academic medical center, as reported in the New York Post,
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What we used to think of as Star Wars is not really so any longer, it is here. I have posted about regenerative medicine quite frequently here and
have a couple interviews with Cook Medical with their products that create scaffolds for body parts to grow and regenerate.
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These I think are larger numbers than originally anticipated. We may read in our local communities of people who had a lethal case and those who 
passed away, but adding all of these up certainly leads us to some staggering numbers for the H1N1 (Swine) flu. BD
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All this comes at a time where hospitals are just getting by. This is just one more reason where healthcare for profit is failing as they dividends come from premium money that is paid for coverage. If this were a non profit business we wouldnt be dealing with this factor and many more dollars would appear to be available to take care of health problems. 
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Just a few days ago I made the comment relative to budgets and said ask a hospital CEO what it is like to budget for things are exist tomorrow that 
are not here today, well this is pretty close, as an unexpected expense. The safety and effectiveness of the sterilizer cant be verified, so out they go and hospitals buy new ones.
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I just read an interesting article in the December 11 edition of the Roanoke Times titled, “Patient Tracking Device Closer to Market.” The article caught my eye because my law firm receives 3 or 4 telephone calls every month from someone whose mother/father/brother/sister, who resides in a nursing home, fell in a portion of the facility in which they never should have been in the first place or worse, gotten outside of the facility and wandered away.
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This is an added offer for attendees this year, as I posted in November, Medical Banking is now part of HIMMS. Theres nothing new here as far as the 
focus on money as this is everywhere today.
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Errors that Occur in Radiological Scans
While we dont like to think of them happening, its true that radiological errors do happen on a regular basis, in fact, much more often than we realize. Some of them are not reported and even those that are reported go by without any action being taken. Mistakes and errors occur more during interpretation of scans rather than during their reading, and this is because:
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This one nearly snuck by.
A Settlement and Some Indictments
In May, 2009, we posted that international Swiss-based medical device manufacturer Synthes settled charges that it was paying surgeons who conducted clinical trials for the company with company stock, and in June, 2009, we posted that Synthes was indicted based on allegations that it had subjected patients to an experimental use of its Norian XR bone cement product on the spinal cord, a use not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and that its executives had lied to the FDA about these actions. It was noteworthy that the indictment named but did not charge the then CEO of the company as “Person No. 7″ who allegedly decided not to conduct clinical trials of Norian XR, but rather to have surgeons use it in a case series that was not identified as clinical research. The company CEO at that time was a Mr Hansjorg Wyss, who is still chairman of the Synthes board, owner of 40% of Synthes stock, and the richest man in the Philadelphia area, worth $5.7 billion according to Forbes magazine, making him the 83rd richest man in the world in 2009, according to Forbes magazine.