News and Articles of Interest
May 2009 — Apportioning Psychiatric Disability in Workers Compensation & Assessing Aggravation in PI Litigation
Apportioning Psychiatric Disability in Workers' Compensation and Assessing Aggravation in Personal Injury Litigation Whether it is in the area of workers’ compensation or personal injury, the courts have recognized that defendants are only...
April 2009 — Making Sense of the MMPI (MMPI’s)
MAKING SENSE OF THE MMPI (MMPI’S) Last month I talked about the five sets of data that are used to arrive at conclusions in psych reports and pointed out that psychological testing is just one of those sources of data. This month’s newsletter is...
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Very Real, Very Contentious
ADVOCATE April 2009 IssueJournal of Consumers Attorneys Associations for Southern CaliforniaMild Traumatic Brain Injury: Very Real, Very Contentiousby Charles J. Furst, Ph.D. Los Angeles Neuropsychology Group Most of the brain injuries that attorneys and...
A World of Hurt Part III – In Workplace Injury System, Ill Will on All Sides – NYT
A World of Hurt Part IIIIn Workplace Injury System, ILL Will on All Sides - NYT by New York Times, Steven Greenhouse TONAWANDA, N.Y. — The sprawling DuPont plant along the Niagara River here can be a grim place, but less so on the days when the company hands out...
A World of Hurt Part II – Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust – NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/nyregion/01comp.html?pagewanted=1&ref=nyregion
A World of Hurt Part I – For Injured Workers, A Costly Legal Swamp – NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/nyregion/31comp.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=meatball%20justice&st=cse
Stents Cost Less Than Bypass For Many Patients – WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/BT-CO-20090328-700848-kIyVDAtMEM5TzItODIyMDgwWj.html
March 2009 — Common Flaws in Psych Reports
COMMON FLAWS IN PSYCH REPORTS After spending 24 years reading medical-legal psych reports it is very obvious that most of them contain substantial flaws. Unfortunately, since SB899, AME and Agreed Panel QME reports are usually not reviewed by other...
February 2009 — Litigation Problems with the GAF
LITIGATION PROBLEMS WIH THE GAF Statements about an applicant's level of permanent psychiatric disability rest upon the doctor's conclusions about their Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF). According to the Schedule for Rating Permanent...
That Buzzing Sound – The mystery of tinnitus.
Medical Dispatch Tinnitus is one of the most common clinical conditions in the United States. KeywordsTinnitus;Ringing;Ears;State University of New York at Buffalo;Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic;Christina Stocking;Hearing LossI noticed the sound one evening about...
Drugmakers’ Push Boosts ‘Murky’ Ailment – AP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090208/ap_on_bi_ge/fibromyalgia_drug_companies
Drugmakers’ Push Boosts ‘Murky’ Ailment
SCRMA NEWS – February 2009
http://www.scrma.com/news/siu/SIU_2009_02.pdf
MRSA and the Workplace – Marvin Pietruszka, M.D. – October 8, 2008
MRSA AND THE WORKPLACEOctober 8, 2008 — TriStar Marvin Pietruszka, M.D. — Length 43:50 min. Why are employers, public officials, and the medical community concerned about MRSA? How does this disease affect employees and employers? Can MRSA be confused for diseases...
New Doubts About Popular Joint Surgery – WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122394041078330741.html
Heart Patients Should Get Screened for Depression, Doctors Say – FoodConsumer.org
http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/A_ffluent_D_iseases_52/093003382008_Heart_patients_should_get_screened_for_depression_doctors_say.shtml
SCRMA NEWS – October 2008
http://www.scrma.com/news/siu/SIU_2008_10.pdf
Heart Patients Should Get Screened for Depression, Doctors Say
Heart Patients Should Get Screened for Depression, Doctors SaySeptember 30, 2008By BEN WASSERMAN, Foodconsumer.orgDoctors from the American Heart Association released a new report Monday to urge patients with heart disease to receive screening for depression because...
A Cloud of Smoke – The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/15/080915fa_fact_kahn
Common Knee Surgery Ineffective, Study Says
Common Knee Surgery Ineffective, Study SaysSeptember 11, 2008By ROBERT TOMSHO, WSJA common surgery for osteoarthritis of the knee isn't effective in treating patients with moderate to severe forms of the disease, according to a new study.Canadian researchers found...
