As I have written in this blog and on my Georgia workers' compensation web site, the quality and nature of your medical care following your injury will have a lot to do with whether you win your claim and with how much money you can ...

MEDICAL RESEARCH SHOCKER: ATKINS DIET WORKS!!!
So how many published peer-reviewed journal articles confirming the efficacy and health benefits of the Atkins Diet does it take to convince the medical and nutrition communities and the general public that carbohydrate control is the ...

Illinois - gradually working toward a medical marijuana law
Illinois Medical Marijuana Bill receives its first hearing today. Unfortunately, I can't be there -- I'd love to hear Julie Falco again. What a wonderful person. From what I've heard so far, I think there's a really good chance that ...

Medical chart and manacled shark
In the They Might Be Giant's song "I Palindrome I" the line goes "See the medical chart with the random zigzag." (They must mean something more like an EKG or respiration graphical output than the history on the bedside clipboard. ...

The Ambulance Ride
The window, crosshatched with wire to make it shatterproof, was usually used for the medical staff to look in and size up patients, Nora supposed. She was using it to size up the transport team. A few minutes of observed loitering was ...

Medical Marijuana Law Has Apparent Loopholes
A recent CBS4 Investigation into Colorado's medical marijuana law gained national attention in the New York Times as the newspaper examined how the Colorado rules provide no protocols for how a patient should get the pot. ...

Medical Malpractice Politics In The Doctor's Waiting Room Is A Bad ...
An article appeared last week in the Kingston Daily Freeman (Doctors put lawyers on defensive) about a postcard/poster campaign by the Medical Society of New York State, accusing trial lawyers of causing excessive malpractice insurance ...

A healthy Games, a healthy nation
I shared our plans for 2012: we are developing our ideas on how to make the Games better rather than bigger, including consultation with team doctors, ensuring the very best medical volunteers, and preventing illness and injury in both ...