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Jan 3, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Shah-Naz Khan
It was rich to watch the TV pundits, who excel at creating storms in a teacup, feigning shock at the public response on social media to UnitedHealthcare’s CEO being gunned down. They were aghast at the over 57,000 laugh emojis on the statement of condolence platitudes put out by UnitedHealthcare.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Shah-Naz Khan
CLOSE X Share✓ Link copied to clipboard! In November 2016, perhaps no one was more surprised than Donald Trump at his victory or Hillary Clinton in losing. That was then. Another sound trouncing of the Democratic ticket appeared inevitable until July when President Joe Biden finally stepped back. Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy was like a breath of fresh air, and initially it seemed that she could do no wrong.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Christopher Johnson |Christine Zharova |Jennifer Wiggins |Shah-Naz Khan
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!We sit down with Muhamad Aly Rifai, a practicing internist and psychiatrist, to explore the complexities of health care fraud investigations and the profound impact these cases have on physicians’ lives and careers.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Mustafa Farooq |Barry Greene |Arthur Lazarus |Shah-Naz Khan
As a fourth-year medical student on the cusp of entering neurosurgery, I am constantly amazed by the innovations revolutionizing this field. These advances promise not only to transform the practice of neurosurgery but also to redefine the training and skill set required for the next generation of neurosurgeons.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Shah-Naz Khan |Oscar Chen
James Haliczer, an erstwhile defense attorney turned plaintiff attorney, audaciously claims in a YouTube video that “there is no such thing as a frivolous lawsuit.”There are ten species of stakeholders in medical malpractice litigation: claimants, plaintiff attorneys, defendants, defense attorneys, medical experts, medical expert directories, mentors, malpractice insurance carriers, and jurors. They are part of the medical liability litigation industry.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Nicholas Bellacicco |Shah-Naz Khan
If you are embroiled in a medical malpractice lawsuit today, you are in a difficult situation. Your lawsuit is one of 85,000 medical malpractice cases filed each year. Regardless of what your defense counsel tells you about merit, no one truly knows how many lawsuits have merit. A prominent defense attorney has gone on record declaring that there is no such thing as a frivolous lawsuit and publicly disavows any notion to the contrary. As strange as this seems, it comes from a defense attorney.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Shah-Naz Khan |Emily Watters |Anna Delamerced |Janet Tamaren
When we go charging in blood vessels at breathtaking speed to relieve the blockade that otherwise may bring a sad end to life, we expect to be doing it for the mature and elderly. The stress and strains upon the heart through the journey that is life upend the natural rhythm and flow, with the turbulence churning up clots like butter from milk that flow downstream till the narrowed channels bring them to a halt.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Nicholas Bellacicco |Shah-Naz Khan
There is a serious flaw in medical malpractice litigation, and it is not what you may think. My post about a hypothetical medical malpractice case is not hypothetical but emblematic of the flaw. Medical staff at a major hospital in Washington, DC, did depart from applicable standards of care regarding limb salvage. The patient is actually a 78-year-old family member who suffers septic shock and a left above-the-knee amputation.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Shah-Naz Khan |Homer Moutran |Caline El-Khoury |Danielle Wilson
Medicine, with its somewhat tarred history in the matter, has woken to the cause of inclusivity. Not too long ago, in the early twentieth century, the American Medical Association (AMA) orchestrated reforms requiring immigrant European doctors to pass rigorous qualification exams, which most American doctors themselves were highly unlikely to clear. Rather than concern about standards, it was largely cynical turf protection to squeeze out better-trained doctors the patients were turning to.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Howard Smith |Christine Zharova |Shah-Naz Khan |Oscar Chen
In the English Rule, the losing party in a lawsuit pays all legal costs. It is accepted worldwide; however, in the United States, it was replaced by the American Rule. In the American Rule, both the plaintiff and defendant in a lawsuit pay their own legal costs. Of course, there are exceptions. In theory, the American Rule encourages meritorious lawsuits and discourages frivolous and even malicious ones.
