If you live in Seattle, you may recall a major news story several years ago regarding Swedish Hospital’s neurosciences department where, among other things, it
Imagine two twins, Jane and John. Jane is stopped at a right light when an inattentive driver collided with her car from behind. The crash
I read two interesting, and somewhat related, articles in medical journals this week. One of them was a review of primary care physicians’ incomes. The other was
A 2017 Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. Other reports claim the numbers are even
As readers of this blog may know, we participated in a 5+ week all-Zoom trial in May and June of 2021, resulting in a significant
Everyone that calls our office was injured – to varying degrees – through some sort of medical care. They want to know whether their case
2,499 hospitals will see a reduction in Medicare payments for 2022 as penalty for excessive readmissions. These hospitals penalized for excessive readmissions represent 47% of
The Leapfrog Group announced its 2021 hospital grades recently, including from Washington State. How did your hospital fare? These grades are based on how safe
We have all, I’m sure, encountered language barriers in medicine in some form or another. Have you ever read an X-ray or MRI report? We
A kidney was the first successfully transplanted human organ. As as the case with much medicine, the journey to that success was fraught with a
