Use Mediators, Not Juries, To Resolve Medical Staff Disputes
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[Image: Engraving of Gilbert and Sullivan\’s Trial by Jury, from Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, by D. H. Friston, May 1, 1875.] Recently I wrote about the…
Let Governing Boards, Not State, Decide Hospitals’ Fate
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[Image: Marionette puppet show for kids in Asbury Park, NJ, July 23, 2006, by Jackie.] I read an op-ed in yesterday\’s Courier News online entitled “New Jersey…
Do You Know How Judges Decide Cases? Do You Have A Hunch?
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[Image: The center third of “Education” (1890), a stained glass window by Charles Louis Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, located in Linsley-Chittenden Hall at Yale University. It depicts Science…
Hospitals Must Develop Sustainable ER On-Call Programs (Did you want to keep that finger?)
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[Image: Hospital Corpsman sutures a patient\’s hand. Photo by Dexter Roberts, May 31, 2005] I recently wrote here that the Report of the New Jersey Commission On…
Cordero v. Christ Hospital Opens A Can Of Worms
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A decision by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey last week will raise more questions than it answered in malpractice cases involving hospital based physicians. …
Should Doctors Insist That Their Patients Arbitrate? Should Patients Agree?
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[Image: The Turnstiles of Taipei in Xindien Station, by Shack, June 28, 2007] An article posted in Sunday\’s philly.com by Inquirer Staff Writer Stacey Burling described arbitration…