Thursday, November 29, 2007

Random Notes

Random notes will be for subjects that I want to blog about or things that need a bit more broadcast, but I just don't have the time for a separate post. They will appear on a, you guessed it, random basis:

• Why is health care so expensive? Might bill padding be involved? (Dr. Wes)

• There is a follow-up to this post from August: Wrong Site Brain Surgery -- Three Times in Six Years at RI Hospital. They've now been fined $50,000;

• Blawg Review #136 is up from down under at Freedom to Differ;

• Blawg Review #135 was a two-parter co-hosted at Transgender Workplace Diversity and the Rainbow Law Center;

• The Impact of Race and Poverty on American Tort Awards (Ron Miller)

• Malpractice awards cap would harm victims (Newsday Op-Ed by Jeffrey Kimmel)

• New York Doctors Claims of Medical Liability Crisis is Deja vu All Over Again (TortDeform)

• NY Lawyers Code of Professional Responsibility Updated Regarding Lawyer Advertising (Sui Generis)

• Did Rudy Giuliani steal 400K from indigent defense fund to pay for dalliances with his mistress? (Simple Justice). And did he commit an Alan Hevesi type felony? (TalkLeft)

• Virtual Hip Replacement Surgery. A very cool interactive tutorial on how it is done (via Kevin, M.D.), and if you want the real thing instead of virtual, go here.

And as a follow-up to the marathon Blawg Review, one last video:

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