As patients and consumers, we see hospitals as places whose primary job is to help us get well. Hospitals, however, are still businesses, and for every doctor or nurse who genuinely cares about us, there is an administrator somewhere looking at the bottom line. A...
Month: January 2016
The “Hot” Toy Of The Season Keeps Exploding
Hoverboards were everywhere this holiday season, but mostly they resided at the top of Christmas lists around the country. Parents snapped up the toy anywhere they could get it, and with the high demand, it was inevitable that the market would be flooded with...
Stalled Cleveland Clinic Malpractice Case to be Decided by Ohio Supreme Court
A retired Air Force colonel is attempting to right a wrong, but he will need the Ohio Supreme Court to intervene. David Antoon underwent surgery to remove his cancerous prostate gland in January of 2008. The cancer is gone, but Antoon was left impotent, incontinent,...
New Study Finds Chemicals In E-Cigarettes Linked To Lung Disease
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule that would allow the regulation of e-cigarettes. For now, however the products remain unregulated, and there is a distinct lack of information about the potential harm that the popular product could...
Jimmy Carter Is Cancer Free Thanks To Revolutionary Drug
Every now and then, we find a story that gives us hope – not only for the direction medical science can take us, but for the families of patients with terminal diseases. So it is our great pleasure to announce that former President Jimmy Carter is cancer free...
Should There Be a Legal Age Limit for Playing Football?
A recent op-ed piece in the New York Times asks the same questions we have been asking: namely, should children – whose brains and bodies are still developing – be allowed to play football? It was written by Bennet Omalu, the man who discovered the link between...
Medical Malpractice Payouts on the Rise throughout the Country
Deiderich Healthcare is part of a group of companies which offer medical malpractice insurance to healthcare providers throughout the country. For the last four years, they have offered an analysis of medical malpractice payouts throughout the country, to help their...
Forcing Hospital Residents to Work 30+ Hour Shifts Is a Bad Idea
If you watch hospital procedurals on television, you are already familiar with the concept of the bleary-eyed doctor being forced to operate after little to no sleep in the last 24 hours. We have looked into the effects of sleep deprivation in nurses, and it stands to...
Hot Pockets Save Ohio Man (and Other Tall Tales the Media Tell)
Hot Pockets are the irresistibly hot and “delicious” choice of children everywhere and college kids on a budget. Nestlé offers over 20 varieties of the microwave turnovers, ranging from breakfast to dessert. The frozen products have fed children and...