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    Amputee Faces Hospital Legal Fees After Seeking Losses

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours February 25, 2013March 28, 2025

    The following from the Texas Tribune, reports that a San Antonio woman is caught between the errors of medical staff and Texas legislation referred to as “tort reform” resulting in a punitive back-fire for seeking compensation for her losses. Read the following article by the Texas Tribune’s Becca Aaronson, dated…

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    Questions Arise Regarding Handling of Defective Hip Replacement

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours February 25, 2013March 28, 2025

    Over a year ago, Johnson & Johnson announced a new head of their orthopedics division claiming a fresh start after recalls of their hip replacement. New information surfaces about the new head of orthopedics, Andrew Ekdahl, who is tied to the development and promotion of the failed implant in ways…

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    Tools and Supplies Left Behind After Surgery

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours September 26, 2012March 28, 2025

    The New York Times’ writer Anahad O’Connor tells the story of complications due to oversights of surgical teams when all surgical objects aren’t accounted for after their job is done. Read these stories of foreign objects sent home with recovering patients and the troubles that follow… On an overnight shift…

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    OP-ED: Tort Reform Demonstrates a Failed Effort

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours August 29, 2012March 28, 2025

    Alex Winslow writes in an OP-ED at Statesman.Com about how the record demonstrates Governor Perry’s claims that legal restrictions on patients’ right to sue would benefit patients at large, make for better practice of medicine and lower health care costs has resulted in just the opposite. Here’s the story: Taking…

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    Injured by a Doctor? You’ll likely deal with the secretive Medical Board instead of open court

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours May 14, 2012March 28, 2025

    Fox 4 in Dallas did a great story on the Texas Medical Board and their contribution to physician discipline since tort reform in 2003.  According to the report serious disciplinary actions are down and the time taken to conduct investigations has risen.  Further, Doctor confidentiality and secrecy is maintained until…

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    All-Metal Hip Implants Prone to Early Failure, Need to be Removed

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours April 27, 2012March 28, 2025

    Great story by NPR on the continuing problems faced by patients who have received All-Metal Hip Implants. Implants Need To Be Removed Early by Richard Knox EnlargeRichard Knox/NPRYoung-min Kwon of Massachusetts General Hospital holds the metal-alloy ball of Susy Mansfield’s faulty artificial hip joint. The yellowish tissue on top is…

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    Federal Judge in Texas Upholds Med Mal Damages Cap

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours April 26, 2012March 28, 2025

    Originally posted at the Dallas Morning News: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/health-care/2012/03/28/u-s-judge-upholds-texas-cap-on-medical-malpractice-awards/ By MARK CURRIDEN The Texas Lawbook mark.curriden@texaslawbook.net Published: 27 March 2012 08:55 PM A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Texas law limiting noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 is constitutional. The decision, applauded by tort reform advocates and denounced…

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    DuPuy / J&J Hip Recall Abroad

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours April 17, 2012March 28, 2025

    The following article by Mark Hollmer at FierceMedicalDevices.Com reports how the Johnson & Johnson (Dupuy Orthopaedics) hip implant is being treated in courts and by regulatory agencies in the U.K, Australia and New Zealand. Read below. Johnson & Johnson  is facing more bad news over its metal-on-metal artificial hip implant…

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    Cancer Risk linked to Diabetes Treatment

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours November 14, 2011March 28, 2025

    By Frank Lyle “Actos” is the brand name for a drug (pioglitazone) used to treat adult onset, Type-II diabetes. In June of 2011, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed the public that this drug may increase the risk of bladder cancer. The FDA required new warnings to be placed…

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    Tragedy Brought on by Tainted Fruit

    BySpringer & Lyle Hours October 3, 2011March 28, 2025

    By Moni Basu, CNN William Beach was one of those people who fixated on certain foods. He would eat the same thing voraciously for a few days, and then, when he tired of the same tastes, he moved onto something else. In August, when summer’s heat seemed unending in Mustang,…

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