According to numerous scientific studies, heart attacks increase on Christmas and New Year's Day. In fact, heart-related deaths are five percent more common during the holiday season. Heart attacks are also one of the 10 most commonly misdiagnosed medical problems....
Year: 2015
Gall Bladder Surgery Gone Bad
A surgeon has a choice. A diseased gall bladder can be removed through laparoscopic surgery or if there is a problem, or even a potential problem the surgery can be converted from laparoscopic surgery to an open surgery. Robotic removal of the gall bladder is being...
Movember: A Reminder That You Are Your Best Health Advocate
During November - or Movember - many men grow their facial hair to raise money and awareness for men's health. While it's fun to throw out the razor, it's important not to overlook the real message: every year, men die from cancers that would have been highly...
Intraoperative Monitoring In Back Surgery
A patient is wheeled into the operating room. The surgeon is present. The anesthesiologist appears and then a new group appears with computers and electronic monitoring equipment. You have probably not been told who they are before you entered the room and it will...
Why the Physician/Patient Privilege Is an Oxymoron
At a lecture some years ago, a psychiatrist described one of his patients whose problems were felt to be instructive to the group. To draw a complete picture for the audience, certain physical characteristics were included in the overall description. By the time the...
Vaccination and Injection Nightmares
Vaccines by and large are beneficial and in many cases are required. I personally have had multiple vaccines and have had my children vaccinated. During the course of my practice of law I have seen Polio disappear, no Small Pox, and until recently the absence of...
The Games Insurers and Providers Play
In the HMO era, patients are giving up choice but still are being saddled with the bills The author, an attorney and medical doctor, practices law as a partner in Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. Over the past three years our office has seen a...
Science Races Ahead of the Law in Genetic Testing
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. Medical science is advancing rapidly in the field of genetics. Watson's and Crick's Nobel Prize-winning discovery of gene strands in the form of a...
Regulating in the Age of Telemedicine
The author, an attorney and medical doctor, is a partner with Goldsmith Ctorides & Rodriguez in Englewood Cliffs. As medical practice has evolved over the last 50 years, we have seen great changes in the manner in which treatment has been rendered. The general...
Nursing Home Abuse Part 1
The latest form of Nursing Home Abuse are attempts by the nursing home to seize resident's assets. This is a new form of earlier actions. The first case we saw related to a nursing home accepting a sum from a widow for lifetime care. This sum under their current rates...
