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- I think "never event" was chosen because it will not be reimbursed (negative compensation). But, with the law of unintended consequences, I suspect it will be used to seek tort compensation.
- The "Never Event" is unfortunately named. In Australia a list of similar events are called Critical Indicators. I accept that they are preventable, but it is hard to say never in medicine...
- I wonder about the full disclosure issues. While I believe in them, I think that we are unnecessarily limiting the scope of disclosure practices to physicians. I believe that lawyers, politicians,...
- We don't already have a two-tiered medical system? One for the well-off, and one for everyone else?
- This is important information, especially for an elderly person on the Medicare part d plan. They don't need any more nasty surprises like being declined for care
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More GCs Put Outside Litigators on a Budget
In a trend that’s picking up steam, corporate counsel are increasingly requiring outside litigation firms to submit detailed budgets from the outset of a case. Corporations like getting the budgets partly because they can also be benchmarks for larger eva
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3 years ago
Baloney! I worked at St. Vincents in the late 80s, early 90s and participated in the care of some of the renal txplt patients. There were many Saudi patients who were living for months to years in nearby apartments, at the expense of the Saudi government, while awaiting their transplants. It was common knowledge that the Saudi gov't had deep pockets and was footing the bills.