Articles on medical legal topics

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	More Than The Blues Every year 40 million Americans experience some form of mental illness, including major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. Attorneys may be involved in representing, deposing, counseling, and suing mentally ill people.......(read more)
	Anticoagulants: A Double Edged Sword These medications can save lives, but also kill. They are singled out as high-risk medications by several patient safety organizations: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, the Joint Commission, and the US Pharmacopeia. High risk drugs, including Heparin, are involved in more than 31 percent of all medication errors that cause harm to patients. They carry a heightened risk of causing significant harm to patients......(read more)
	How Harshness Harms Patients The physician who screams at the nurses’ station may soon be exhibiting a behavior of the past. Increasingly, healthcare facilities and staff are identifying the negative impact of disruptive or abusive behavior on communication, patient safety, employee morale, and turnover. Incidents of verbal abuse of nurses, typically by physicians, are unfortunately well known. According to a survey, an estimated 2-3% of physicians behaved badly toward nurses.....(read more)