Sentences with phrase «patients against all hospital»

Media liberal pressure has prompted a stream of laws, regulations and directives to champion the criminal against the police, the child against the school, the patient against the hospital, the employee against the company, the soldier against the army, the borrower against the bank, the convict against the prison — there is a new case in the papers almost every day, and each victory is a small erosion of the efficiency and effectiveness of the institution.

However, our healthcare framework can not protect patients against all hospital or nursing errors.

Not exact matches

This goes entirely against the gold standard of modern clinical care and is likely to have very serious ramifications, not only for the patients put on the LCP but for the practice of medicine in NHS hospitals.

Richard Lamm, the former governor of Colorado who has campaigned against excessive medical costs, recently cited the case of a patient in a Washington, D.C., hospital who has been in a comatose state since Lamm was a high school student.

You should be fighting against the aspects of hospital births that traumatize patients, that cause them to choose homebirth or other risky choices in the first place.

Whereas previously, under the MHA 1983, patients lost the right to refuse medical treatment whilst subject to hospital detention, once discharged from their section and returned to the community they regained the same rights of citizenship as the rest of us, such as the right to refuse medical treatment, even if this goes against professional medical opinion and is likely to be detrimental to our health.

Those changes included allowing competition only in the interest of patients and based on quality rather than price, driving profits from foundation hospitals back into the NHS and building safeguards against conflicts of interest into the commissioning process.

In the past several years, there's been a rash of mergers among hospitals, a pre-emptive defense against a system in which larger hospitals with more patients will have a compounded advantage over smaller ones.

Hospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in tHospitals in New York also have gone into overdrive against the Republican measure, saying it «would threaten health coverage for millions of New Yorkers, create a fiscal crisis for the state, and burden hospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in thospitals and health systems with fewer resources and more uninsured or underinsured patients,» said Bea Grouse, president of the Rensselaer - based Hospital Association of New York State, which represents over 500 not - for - profit and public hospitals in thospitals in the state.

As New York's first confirmed Ebola patient waged battle against the disease in Bellevue Hospital downtown, his uptown neighbors struggled to come to grips with their proximity to the worldwide phenomenon.

Details of complaints made against every NHS hospital — so that patients can use the experiences of other patients to judge whether they want to be treated there — will be available from October.

Researchers at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist have developed an alternative treatment in which virus - specific cells protect patients against severe, drug - resistant viral infections.

Another ongoing investigation against Macchiarini was launched after four surgeons at the affiliated Karolinska University Hospital charged that he did not get properly informed consent from patients — a charge Macchiarini has denied.

The panel also pointed out that financial penalties levied against hospitals may have the unintended consequence of transferring money away from hospitals that treat large numbers of disadvantaged patients.

Thanks to the participation of patients in Sweden, Spain, France and Germany, we can now predict the risk of suffering a serious side - effect of medication against toxic goitre,» says Pär Hallberg, chief physician and associate professor at Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology, Uppsala University Hospital (Akademiska sjukhuset) who also set up the European Drug Induced Agranulocytosis Consortium (EUDAC).

Dr. Gajewski has developed experimental vaccines against melanoma that are currently in Phase II clinical trials in a handful of patients at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

Against that background, to satisfy the Lancet's patient - protection requirements, but without revealing to hospital authorities what was really going on, Wakefield falsely reported that a gruelling five - day battery of invasive and distressing procedures performed on the kids - including anaesthesia, ileocolonoscopies, lumbar punctures, MRI brain scans, EEGs, radioactive drinks and x-rays - proposed for the lawsuit, was approved by the Royal Free's ethics committee.

Ultimately, the patient and his family become non-compliant and leave the hospital Against Medical Advice4.

Defense of physicians, nurses, and hospitals against allegations of negligence arising from diagnosis, care, and treatment of patients with acute and long term illness.

George Bellas, in association with Clifford Law Offices, filed a series of class actions against several not - for - profit hospitals alleging that these not - for - profits violate their tax exempt status by overcharging uninsured and indigent patients and then employing strong - arm tactics to collect from the indigent and uninsured, driving many people into bankruptcy.

In her complaint against the hospital, the patient alleged a strict product liability claim based on the hospital's use of the BMP sponge without the LT - Cage.

Re: The Estate of Peter Winkle v. Trinity Health Michigan Case No: 15 -07703-NH, Kent County Circuit Court On January 31, 2017, the Kent County Circuit Court entered a judgment against Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital of Grand Rapids, Michigan for violating patient safety.

In Oliveira v. Aviva Canada Inc., the Ontario Superior Court of Justice considered whether a «Professional and General Liability and Comprehensive Dishonesty, Disappearance and Destruction Insurance Policy» purchased by a Canadian hospital required the insurer to defend a hospital employee against a privacy breach lawsuit by a former patient.

Nonetheless, it is possible to bring a lawsuit against a hospital that fails to provide a patient with an appropriate standard of care.

In this regard, if an attending or non-employee physician makes a mistake and injures a patient while working in the hospital, it may not be possible to file a lawsuit against the hospital, because attendings or non-employee physicians are often independent contractors.

Won a defendant's verdict in a lawsuit alleging wrongful death against a psychiatric hospital where a patient, a librarian, committed suicide.

If such negligence results in injury to the patient, a case could arise against a doctor if his or her actions deviated from generally accepted standards of practice; against a hospital for providing improper care protocols, including problems with medications, sanitation or nursing staff levels; or against local, state or federal agencies and entities that operate hospital facilities.

Lawsuits against hospital that sent home patient with Ebola face hurdles for malpractice laws, Reuters

Patients are understood to have taken advice about making medical negligence claims against an NHS hospital, after minor operations by a private provider prompted complaints.

Successfully represented hospital in appeals court decision that providers are not preempted from pursuing direct state law claims against non-self-funded ERISA health plans, and can sue such plans in their own right, rather than as assignees of the patient's ERISA benefits.

Furthermore, patients can also file suit against hospitals if the facility acted in a similarly negligent manner.

If your lawsuit against a public hospital has to do with «patient care» then you have two years to file a lawsuit.

Thompsons is acting for over 500 former patients of Mr Paterson in civil claims against the hospitals involved.

Participated in the defense of a national hospital chain and its affiliated debt collection agency against federal class action claims that they «balanced - billed» patients

While no victims have stepped forward yet, the revelation could means patients may have claims against the medical device maker and hospital, some potentially worth significant compensation.

Matters of note include the coordination of multiparty defense in a wrongful death action arising from a construction accident, arbitration of a complex network agreement between healthcare organizations, and defense of class action cases brought by uninsured patients against a chain of hospitals.

We have helped patients recover for mistakes made by hospital staff, therapists and nurses and brought claims against physicians, nurses, hospitals and pharmacists.

If a doctor makes an error in prescribing a medication for a patient — say, by prescribing a medication that would cause a fatal interaction with other medicines the patient is taking — but the hospital pharmacist catches the doctor's error before the medicine is actually given to the patient, the patient does not have a medical malpractice case against his doctor because of the legal requirement that the malpractice must cause harm to the patient.

In just one example, after a Lubin & Meyer suit uncovered a flaw in a major Boston hospital's computer system that allowed medical professionals to overdose a patient resulting in her death, the hospital changed its protocols and put a backup system in place to safeguard against a similar tragedy.

Shortly after the patient's diagnosis, he filed a lawsuit against the hospital, claiming it was responsible for his condition.

Moore Blatch obtained an early liability judgment against the hospital together with an interim payment of compensation for the patient to assist with her needs.

The claimants had argued that, as detained patients in a high - security mental hospital, they had a «status» within the meaning of Art 14 and were being discriminated against when compared to those in prison, care homes and hospices.

Staff are hesitant about giving any form of evidence — partly as they are busy people, partly as they deal with hundreds of individuals and recollections may therefore be foggy, but to an extent no doubt from a fear of being somehow implicated in a negligence action against them or the hospital if they were seen to have treated a patient improperly or without informed consent.

Enforced hospital policy and procedure used to protect assets, employees, patients, and visitors against known and potential risks.

Violence against health care staff by patient's visitor in general hospital in Greece: Possible causes and economic crisis

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Much of the research on violence committed by patients and family members against healthcare providers in the hospital focus on the frequency and severity of incidents plus personal, perpetrator, and hospital characteristics.