Don't Like a Research Paper? Sue the Journal and Authors...

What is a lawyer to do if medical research produces results that make it more difficult to win lawsuits? Why you sue the medical journal and the researchers who authored it. And you ask the medical journal to retract it. And than you ask for a court order forbidding the report to be entered as evidence in future litigation. Sound like a joke? Wish it was, except it happened... is happening... A Boston lawyer has sued the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology for a case re…

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ER Doc Found Negligent in Bell's Palsy Case

This case is not quite what you might think... Here's the background... The Wisconsin State Supreme Court  found an ER physician negligent for failing to offer a carotid ultrasound for a patient who presented with an isolated facial paralysis  (patient did not exhibit paralysis anywhere else in the body) and upheld a $2 million jury award to the patient in 2008. Not only that, the Wisconsin Medical Board reprimanded the ER physician and fined her $300. [ link ] Hmmmm... After all, …

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What do Earthquakes Have to do with Thyroid Masses?

I'm not sure what is going on within the Italian Court system, but in October 2012, the Italian Court convicted 7 scientists to jail terms for not accurately predicting the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake  that ended up killing over 300 people. Also in October 2012, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that cell phones caused one man's brain tumor . Since when does the Court decide on matters of scientific validity? And even more importantly, what does this have to do with ENT??? I&…

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Cell Phones Caused Brain Tumor Rules Supreme Court

On October 12, 2012, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that cell phones caused one man's brain tumor. The Court felt that there was a causal link between businessman Innocente Marcolini's brain tumor diagnosis and his phone use which he used up to 6 hours per day for over a decade. Although the brain tumor was a benign trigeminal neuroma, it required surgery and badly affected his quality of life. This "causal link" between cell phones and brain tumors has been described in …

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