Here is the weekly news updates from around the country:
One interesting one is the doctor who was convicted of a felony for botched surgeries. The article doesn’t explain it, but medical malpractice lawyers know all to well the system described by the defense expert:
From the article: “An expert witness called by the defense agreed with prosecution witnesses that Duntsch’s surgical techniques were poor. But he argued that the failure was due to a system that did not report bad outcomes, according to the D Magazine story. “This was a complete and utter failure of the entire system of checks and balances for patient safety,” said the expert, Dr. Carlos Bagley, director of the neurological surgery spine program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.”
DuPont settles lawsuits over leak of chemical used to make Teflon
http://www.reuters.com/article