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    July/August 2007

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    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    Focus on: Concussions and brain injuries in PI. Have you included the cost of treatment in your case?

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    By Dorajane Apuna, BSN, MA, RN, CCM, CNLCP

    How secure is your e-mail? Prudence stops problems

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    • The Gist: Law firms should have policies about proper e-mail procedures and archival. Subcontractors to attorneys should know the firms’ rules.

    By Kathleen Sesco, RN, BSN, MHA

    Evidence-based medicine: What it is, why it’s important in law

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007 

    By Kathy Aldridge, MSN, ACM, CPHQ, CLNC

    Forfeiting the right to sue

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    Tackle a complex infectious disease case with a timeline, knowledge of key players

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    By Maureen Orr, RN

    Liability of infecting another: Who pays and when, if ever?

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    • The Gist: Case law pertaining to infecting another person with a deadly disease is evolving. 

    By Dan Clifford, publisher

    Legal Nurse Consulting Institute launches new Fridays-only LNC training

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    By Dan Clifford, publisher

    NewsSpots

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    Part 1: Nursing standards, their history and significance

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    Appalachian county hopes to sue OxyContin maker for costs

    • The Gist: Such a large products liability case would require medical record and literatures reviews, fiscal evidence and numerous expert witnesses.

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    By Dan Clifford, publisher

    Focus on: Duragesic patches/Fentanyl

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    • The Gist: Look for use of these patches in medical cases you litigate, defend or review.

    By Margaret S. Wacker

    Quarantines and civil liberties: specter from the past revives

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    By Dr. Rosemary E. McGeady, Esq.

    RAM on the run: Will computer chips and their data be subject to discovery?

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    • The Gist: This ruling could mean that millions or billions of pages of otherwise-temporary memory must be written to disks constantly and archived.

    By Paul Martino

    UCF offers on-line and on-site LNC course, 27 CE hours

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    Verdicts & Settlements

    Cases compiled from www.verdictslaska.com; Editorials by Rose Clifford, editor

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    Focus on: Bariatric surgery, complications, litigation

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    Anatomy of a car crash from the medical-legal angle

    The Medical-Legal News asked two nurse consultants to analyze a real motor vehicle crash and assess the current and future medical injuries, forensics of the impact and the plaintiff’s credibility.

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    LETT, on the clinical and forensic

    By Sally Lett, DC, RN

    Focus on: Compliance

    Part 1: Emergency Preparedness remains a focal point with the JCAHO

    © The Medical-Legal News, 2007

    • The Gist: Hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission must be responsive to the changes in the standards addressing patient safety. If a hospital is JCAHO accredited and were to be out of compliance with its guidelines, resulting in a patient safety issue, it could impact litigation.

    By Angela L. Tobias RN, BSN, MSHSA, LNCC
     


     
     
     
     

     

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