What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe medical profession fears that the number of cases brought against GPs could dramatically increase if contingency fees for solicitors the "no win, no fee" arrangement are introduced. ... ...
Patients should be fully warned of the potential complications from laparoscopy, the procedure used to examine or fix female reproductive organs, according to French researchers. ...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Doctors are resorting to many tests during pregnancy and labour which they have no faith in just to avoid lawsuits. ...
Does a doctor know more about a child's wellbeing than her mother? Can an occasional examination allow him to see things that a mother can't? Does the doctor always know best? ...
We have now reached the point where, on balance, well meaning doctors in general practice and highly trained, well equipped specialists working in hospitals do more harm than good. Through a mixt ...
Last autumn Michelle Huberman, who gave birth to a daughter with Down's syndrome, initiated a £1m lawsuit against her doctor, obstetrician Yehudi Gordon, for allegedly failing to provide her wit ...
As you may have noticed, we've been quoting Stephen Fulder a good deal lately in these pages. Fulder (author of How to be a Healthy Patient; Hodder & Stoughton) advocates a combination of the ...
Poor diagnosis and the overuse of steroids have caused a rash of severe side effects, leading to malpractice suits. ...
There are 88 reasons why your prescription for drugs could be wrong - sometimes fatally so - while you’re in hospital, researchers have discovered.
