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How to Check Out a Doctor for Medical Malpractice

How to Check Out a Doctor for Medical Malpractice

by Trisha Torrey (VeryWellHealth.com) Checking a doctor’s history of malpractice suits and disciplinary actions can help guide you in choosing a doctor. When you need difficult medical testing or treatment, you must choose your doctor wisely. You’ll want to do some research about the doctor to be sure his credentials, experience, and abilities to meet your needs. The following …

How drugmakers’ gifts to doctors lead to more opioid overdose deaths – NY Times

How drugmakers’ gifts to doctors lead to more opioid overdose deaths – NY Times

Counties where doctors got more meals, trips and consulting fees from opioid makers had higher overdose deaths involving prescription opioids. A new study offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the connection between the marketing of opioids to doctors and the nation’s addiction epidemic. It found that counties where opioid manufacturers offered a large …

Fentanyl now America’s deadliest drug – USA Today

Fentanyl now America’s deadliest drug – USA Today

Fentanyl is now the deadliest drug in America, federal health officials announced, with more than 18,000 overdose deaths in 2016, the most recent year for which statistics are available. It’s the first time the synthetic opioid has been the nation’s deadliest drug. From 2012 to 2015, heroin topped the list. On average, in each year …