The Law Blog of Plaintiff's Attorney Max Kennerly
The WSJ Law Blog points us to an Op-Ed in the NYTimes:
Restoring a foundation of trust requires a new system of medical justice. Medical cases are now decided jury by jury, without consistent application of medical standards. According to a 2006 study in the New England Journal of Medicine, around 25 percent of
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After my post yesterday, "Differential Diagnosis, Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice: Coumadin Edition," the original physician responded on WhiteCoat’s Call Room at length:
Max Kennerly is another lawyer that posted a response on his blog “Litigation & Trial.” He accused me of being afraid to use the “basic principle of clinical medicine known as
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[Note: I wrote this article back in 2009. Since then, the FDA approved Pradaxa as a substitute for Coumadin. Pradaxa has an even greater risk of intracranial hemorrhage than Coumadin, and there’s no reversal agent, unlike how Vitamin K reverses Coumadin. The concerns raised below thus apply even more to patients on…