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...testified that, although Pring-Wilson complained of trauma, he did not display any physical signs of head injury on either day that Ma examined...
...What was obvious to me was the lump on his forehead,” Boyle said. “I would not refer to it as head trauma...
However, Denner pointed out that in a report Boyle had written, he did in fact refer to Pring-Wilson’s injury as head trauma...
...destructive increase in outlandish jury awards for the victims of medical malpractice in the U.S. Multi-million-dollar judgments are undermining doctors’ ability to provide effective health care—and last week’s Democratic filibuster of the Senate’s Pregnancy and Trauma Care Access Protection Act of 2004 hindered legitimate efforts to protect the health care system from the consequences of unreasonable verdicts...
...medicine more expensive, thereby limiting its availability. The cost of malpractice insurance premiums has become unbearable for many doctors, especially in high-risk professions. For example, Time Magazine reported last summer that from 2001 to 2002, obstetricians-gynecologists saw an average 19.6 percent increase in premiums, and emergency room trauma specialists saw a 56.2 percent increase from 2002 to 2003. These increasingly higher costs can force doctors to take extreme measures, such as refusing to perform specific procedures—last summer, half of the ob-gyns in Tacoma, Wash. refused to deliver babies—and even moving their...