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• Family to Sue Health Insurer for Fatal Delay in Treatment

  David Tompkins | December 23, 2007 11:11 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  While not a typical automobile post, I'd like to draw your attention to this weeks story about a health insurer who denied a liver transpant to a young insured girl. It seems that liver transplants, to the health insurer, is still considered an "experimental" procedure, so they denied coverage for the procedure.The young girls family hired a well known TV lawyer to get some media coverage. ...

• Doctors Protect Drug Addict Physicians so they Can Treat You!

  David Tompkins | December 19, 2007 9:40 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  I take a lot of static from doctors who say I am too hard on their profession. "All professionals make mistakes," I have been told. True, but a professional fixes mistakes, or makes their client, patient, etc. whole. That is the nature of a profession, a self-regulating trade.Doctors don't want to help victims of medical malpractice. Doctors want their injured patients to accept their...