Attorney James A. Jackson specializes in white collar crime, fraud and other legal issues. He is interested in unusual, difficult cases. Send email to: jaj48@aol.com James A. Jackson
A couple of his Letters to the Santa Cruz Sentinel:
Prize hokum (pblished Sunday, March 14, 2010)
“David Sweet advises that if we only leave Afghanistan, the government can guarantee reasonably paid jobs to all of us. I am sure they all nodded yes to this in his sociology class, but here in the real world this is prize hokum. Short of putting us all in the Re-elect Obama campaign committee, how will the government, which has no money but ours, do this?
Lift that barge, tote that bale.” by James Jackson, Aptos jaj48@aol.com
“Why do you publish the Amy Goodman tripe weekly? Might I suggest a once-a-year story for her: Somewhere a child cries, somewhere a sparrow limps. Blame the United States of America. Somewhere a life is saved, somewhere medicine is delivered. Praise the United Nations.”
Below is an RSS feed concerning medical malpractice. Click on an article to read the entire article.
Defensive Medicine Costs Much Less Than 'Imagined' By Malpractice Reformists - The combined cost of malpractice -- and doctors' efforts to avoid it by practicing so-called defensive medicine -- costs about $55.6 billion a year, or 2.4 percent of total health spending, according to a new analysis by "Harvard University's Atul Gawande and co-authors, Bloomberg reports...
Medical Liability Costs In U.S. Pegged At 2.4 Percent Of Annual Health Care Spending - How much do medical liability costs-including the costs of malpractice insurance, claims and legal fees and doctors practicing "defensive medicine" to avoid being sued-add to overall medical costs? During the recent debates over federal health care reform, considerable attention focused on whether medical liability reform should be included in the package as a means of reducing costs...
Suspended Sentence For The Illegal Sale And Supply Of Sex Drugs - A 61-year-old man from Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands received a nine month prison sentence suspended for two years last Monday, with supervision for one year, at Birmingham Crown Court for the illegal sale and supply of erectile dysfunction medicines...
Court Denies Sandoz/Momenta's Summary Judgment Of Invalidity In Copaxone(R) Litigation - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq:TEVA) announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has denied a motion for summary judgment filed by Sandoz Inc./Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc., that the patents at issue are invalid for indefiniteness. The court has not yet set a trial date...
Study: Malpractice Costs $55.6 Billion Annually, Most In Defensive Medicine - An analysis by the journal Health Affairs has found that $55.6 billion, 2.4 percent of all annual health spending, is spent on medical malpractice, reports Modern Healthcare. "The estimate includes defensive-medicine activities, such as ordering tests or treatments ... which alone costs an estimated $45.6 billion per year, the study found. ...
Patients Are Injured Due To Missed Or Delayed Diagnosis Analysis Shows - Errors related to missed or delayed diagnosis are frequently a cause of patient injury and therefore an underlying cause of patient safety related events. Autopsy analysis spanning several decades show error rates at four to 50 percent, according to an article released by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and published in its September Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory...
Study Recommends Disclosure Of Medical Mistakes That Affect Multiple Patients - Health care organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an AHRQ-funded research paper published in the September 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
