MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'births'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:12:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862921&cid=t_159573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FbtRrdLyDk40%2F Earlier this year, a scandal erupted after KV Pharmaceuticals won approval for its Makena drug to prevent premature births and charged $1,500 for treatment, an eye-popping increase for a med that was previously available from compounding pharmacies for $10 to $20 for decades. The move was possible because the FDA approval came with marketing exclusivity under the Orphan Drug Act (see here). The episode prompted accusations of price gouging and forced the FDA to decline to pursue compounders (read this and this). Moreover, the red-hot controversy focused renewed attention on older drugs that are repurposed, win FDA approval and gain a lock on the market that allows prices to be increased dramatically. And so Herb Kohl, who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging, and three members of t... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862921 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:03:41 +0100 4862921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4670336&cid=t_159573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FCtZxAGEWEqs%2F You read it here first. Despite the decision today by KV Pharma to lower the price of its Makena drug for premature births by 55 percent - to $690 (see this), the March of Dimes has ended a decade-long corporate relationship in which the drugmaker contributed some $1 million to help support various activities, such as a neo-natal family intensive care program. The move comes after the organization met earlier this week with the embattled drugmaker, which has faced a storm of protest after initially charging $1,500 for Makena, a form of progesterone that, for many years, was offered by compounding pharmacies. KV was granted marketing exclusivity because approval was made under the Orphan Drug Act and the drugmaker threatened to take compounding pharmacies to court. To mollify critics, KV su... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4670336 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:10:12 +0100 4670336 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4664479&cid=t_159573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FgXjtOBKbmts%2F Yesterday, the FDA took the unusual step of inserting itself into the controversy over the KV Pharmaceutical drug known as Makena, which the agency approved last month for premature births under the Orphan Drug Act. After KV disclosed plans to charge $1,500, compared with $10 to $20 a week for compunded versions of a med that has been used for decades, the drugmaker and the FDA came under fire by politicians, patient groups and some doctors (see this and this). In response, the FDA says it will not prevent compounders from compounding (see this), adding unexpected to competition to KV, which has a 7-year exclusivity period. We spoke with Cole Werble (pictured left) and Ramsey Baghdadi who track pharma for Prevision Policy, a healthcare analysis firm, and who are also editors at The RPM Rep... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4664479 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:15:26 +0100 4664479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4658625&cid=t_159573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FywfQAM3CoRc%2F Earlier this month, controversy erupted after KV Pharmaceuticals began charging $1,500 for an injection of its Makena drug for preventing premature births. Why? Makena is actually a form of progesterone that has been available for decades from compounding pharmacies at roughly $10 to $20 a week (read this and this). Now, though, KV Pharma has a lock on the market, because Makena is the only drug approved by the FDA for this purpose. Two US senators, however, asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate and various patient groups are pressuring KV to lower its price. We spoke with Alan Fleischman, medical director at the March of Dimes, which has received some $1 million in donations from KV over the past decade, but issued a harsh condemnation (see this). This chat occurred just be... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4658625 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:22:30 +0100 4658625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4627020&cid=t_159573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F0IjRn8so-AU%2F Earlier this month, controversy erupted after KV Pharmaceuticals disclosed plans to charge $1,500 for an injection of its Makena drug for preventing premature births. Why? Makena is actually a form of progesterone that has been available for decades from compounding pharmacies at roughly $10 to $20 a week (read this and this). Now, though, KV Pharma has a lock on the market, because Makena is the only drug approved by the FDA for this purpose. And the agency did so under the auspices of the Orphan Drug Act, which means KV Pharma was granted seven years of market exclusivity. In response, two senators asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate (see here), but Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology International, a non-profit advocacy group that focuses on intellectual property issues tha... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4627020 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:37:04 +0100 4627020 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455270&cid=t_159573_88_f&fid=38153&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ozemedicine.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D937 Planned home births in most states of Australia is in a decade of a surge in popularity primarily promoted by midwives as part of a right to choose and also to counter the recent imbalance of hospital/obstetric resources and demand. The midwives are pushing to rapidly expand planned home births through Community Midwifery programmes, hoping to emulate the success of the long existing UK practices. A report recently published by the Western Australian government on analysis of perinatal mortality for the 3 years 2005-2007 appears on face value to be quite damning of planned home births in that state, with mortality rates which have not improved on the previous 3 years and which are ~20x higher perinatal mortality than that for ALL hospital births over 37 weeks gestation when looking at peri... Oz E Medicine - emergency medicine in Australia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455270 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:47:52 +0100 4455270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3403852&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fare-caesareans-barbaric%2F Does something in your gut make you feel squeamish about C-sections? It’s probably your uterus. Oh, and your baby. A recent New York Times article outlined the soaring number of Caesarean-section births in the U.S., and why that’s probably not a good thing for moms and tots. According to the piece, rates have been climbing since 1996, reaching 36 percent in 2007 (more current stats aren’t available). This alternative to vaginal birth is meant to save mother and child from injury and death, but some health officials say that – at least at these rates – it could be doing the opposite. C-sections increase the risk of uterine rupture during subsequent pregnancies; placenta abnormalities; and surgical complications that can land moms back in the hospital and infants in the... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3403852 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:54:23 +0100 3403852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2890617&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fi0W33AuT26k%2F Two figures that say it all. Death Rates (deaths per 1,000 population), New York City, c. 1800-2007. Source: NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. Summary of Vital Statistics (2008). H/T to William Briggs for making me aware of this figure. Infant Mortality Rate (deaths per 1,000 live births), New York City, 1898-2007. In 1898 IMR was estimated to be 140.9 Because of incomplete reporting of early neonatal deaths, this is almost certainly an underestimate. In 2007 IMR was 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births. Source: NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. Summary of Vital Statistics (2008) (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2890617 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:50:37 +0100 2890617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2353792&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Ftwin-home-births-some-fascinating-legal.html Some fascinating legal and moral issues arise from this story, sent to me by an NHS BLOG DOCTOR reader:A COUPLE are facing a bill of thousands to have their twins born at home after being told NHS midwives were not experienced enough to handle the birth.Parents-to-be Neil Harrison and Joanne Morris want their children to arrive at home in Stone in four weeks' time. But Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has told them it does not support the home delivery of twins, as its midwives are not experienced in that field. The trust says staff will only be sent to the Pembroke Drive home on an "on-call" emergency basis. The couple say they are being denied their rightful choice and feel they are being pushed into having a hospital birth. Instead, they intend to take a bank loan to pay for the t... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2353792 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:00:00 +0100 2353792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2347984&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fdid-your-rapist-wear-mask-and-gown-home.html JANET Fraser is in labour. Her plan is to drop the baby on the loungeroom floor, or wherever feels good at the time. Has she called the hospital to let them know what's happening? "When you go on a skiing trip, do you call the hospital to say, 'I'm coming down the mountain, can you set aside a spot for me in the emergency room?' I don't think so," says Fraser, whose breathing sounds strained.This is pretty much where we end the conversation that started with me calling Fraser and asking if it was true that her organisation, Joyous Birth, was advocating that women go it alone giving birth at home, with no midwife or GP or bags of resuscitation gadgets."Free-birthing, plenty of women do it," she says. In fact, Fraser is doing it right now. "I prefer to be an autonomous care-provider," she sa... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2347984 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:45:00 +0100 2347984 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232801&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2FJiWP8goU1Zo%2Fmaking-multiple-births-fun-and.html [Hat tip to Art Caplan for bringing this story to our attention] With all the recent attention given to Nadya Suleman and her brood of 14, comparisons have been made to the popular show on TLC, Jon & Kate Plus 8, which chronicles the life of the Gosselins raising a set of twins and sextuplets. Philly magazine examines the way that the Gosselins have found a way to make the family business quite a profitable one -- and the article asks the uncomfortable question "when do your kids stop being your kids and start becoming your meal ticket?":"TODAY THE TWINS are eight and the sextuplets four, but Jon and Kate actually look younger than when the show began, more camera-friendly and polished. They’ve had their teeth whitened; Jon’s been working out and got a (free) hair transplant. The G... Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232801 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:25:05 +0100 2232801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2190545&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2009%2F02%2F15%2Fthe-monday-sidebar-having-babies-too-old-too-young-too-many%2F Today’s Sunday Sidebar focuses on three different cases that intrigue and mystify me. First up, the 60 year old woman from Western Canadian who recently gave birth to twins. Seems she had her heart set on having children and when it didn’t happen naturally, resorted to IVF treatment in India (Canada apparently has a cutoff age of 50). I’m sorry but having twins at 60 sounds more like a nightmare than a blessing. Keeping up with one infant would be hard enough but two? Even a thirty year old might have problems doing that. Second up, the baby faced 13 year old father in England. These kids (the mother is just 15) might have the energy to raise a child but as we all know, it takes so much more than just energy. It takes money. It takes maturity. And third, there is Octo Mo... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2190545 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:34:23 +0100 2190545 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1996240&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fmore-maternity-madness.html I thought it was an elaborate spoof in the Guardian but no, it’s for real. It’s the story of a lotus birth to Gina Cox-Roberts who is a natal hypnotherapist from Telford. What is a lotus birth? Read on."The placenta and the child came from the same cell," she says. "Her placenta was as much a part of her as her hands or her heart." So why cut the umbilical cord? Instead Cox-Roberts decided to go ahead with a "lotus birth" - a practice in which the placenta stays attached to the baby until the umbilical cord disintegrates naturally a few days later.This was, or course, a home birth and was, of course, conducted by an independent midwife.Cox-Roberts believes that this approach - which followed an uncomplicated home birth attended by an independent midwife - gave her baby the opportunity ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1996240 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:27:00 +0100 1996240 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1974989&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fdippy-doulas-down-under.html I am not totally against home births. I welcome them in the right environment and with the right safeguards. I have said this many times but, when I do say it, the militant homebirthers take no notice. These blinkered zealots are blinded by anger if anyone dares to disagree with them. They put their obsessional belief in home births above any considerations of safety and science. The experience in Holland clearly suggests that with properly trained obstetricians (be they midwives or doctors) and with proper back up it is reasonable for low risk patients to have their babies at home. But you can’t have a rational discussion about risk analysis with the lunatic fringe of independent midwifery. They deal only in emotion.Some rabid home birthers in Australia have put a video flogging their b... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1974989 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:53:00 +0100 1974989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1968733&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fhome-birth-lunacy-continues.html Most advocates of home births in the UK would say that one should endeavour to select woman who prospectively seem to be in a “low risk” category. Of course, you can never guarantee that labour will be problem free, but it seems reasonable to suggest that obvious high-risk women should have a hospital delivery.Let us consider Mrs A.She is pregnant for the third time. She has never delivered vaginally. She has always needed augmented labour and in fact her first two babies were delivered by caesarian section. She lives in a relatively isolated rural location and is now pregnant for the third time. She has obstetric cholestasis. Finally, it is a twin pregnancy. Mrs A would like a home water birth deliveryWould support Mrs A to have a home delivery?Let me now introduce you to Sarah Montag... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1968733 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:43:00 +0100 1968733 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1963913&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fmore-birth-tragedies.html It is deeply depressing that the militant independent madwives continue to ply their trade whilst the Royal College of Midwives stands with its disciplinary telescope resolutely clamped to its blind eye. Regular readers may recall the Kent Independent Midwives, led by Virginia Howes:Virginia Howes : Independent MidwifeI printed, verbatim, the Kent Independent Midwives account of the management of a multiparous woman with a large baby and polyhydramnios. It was a catalogue of ignorance, arrogance, incompetence and negligence. It can still be read here. I sent a copy of it to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Shortly after I printed the story thus giving it wider publicity, the story mysteriously disappeared from the website. No comment was made. No explanation was offered. Now, only the he... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1963913 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:51:00 +0100 1963913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1575407&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F07%2F03%2Fguess-whos-had-a-baby-or-two%2F If you guessed the Jolie-Pitt clan, you’re wrong. According to her OB, there’s still a few weeks to go. No, the babies I’m talking about are the ones that have been born to ‘a 70 year old grandmother’ and ‘a transgender man’. Talk about pushing the limits. Can you imagine having a baby twins at the age of 70? I’m having a hard time getting my head around the idea. And get this, she is already has two daughters and five grandchildern. I could understand if this was a simple fluke of nature, but the twins were conceived through IVF treatment. Why ? Well, according to news reports, it was so there would be a male heir. This, quote by the 77 year old father, who financed the treatment through a combination of savings, mortgaging his land, and cre... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1575407 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:46:59 +0100 1575407 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439504&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fmotoring-offences-upside-of-dumbing.html Freddie FlintoffYou may think it is easy to prosecute someone for speeding. Anyone can do it. You may think it is easy to deliver a baby. Anyone can do that do. Sadly, "anyone" was recently delivering a baby at home, in Suffolk, and a young mother died. Total, gobstopping incompetence - but pay peanuts, get monkeys.Back to speeding. If you are going to prosecute someone for motoring offences you need professional skills. You need a lawyer. Nowadays, you don't get real lawyers. You get lawyer-lite from the CPS or, even worse, Dixon. We all loved George, but George did not pretend to be a lawyer. It's not like that anymore. No one knows their place.A man who knew his placeA cricketer has escaped from an allegation of driving much faster than the speed limit. His solicitor glories in the so... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439504 Tue, 13 May 2008 22:18:00 +0100 1439504 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439505&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fcoffee-shop-feminists-do-not-understand.html The latest Britblog Roundup was hosted by Redemption Blues, a site headed by a picture to die for. (Which mountain is it?) I was gratified that Dr Crippen’s recent post on Rowan Pelling and the White Witch was featured but then concerned to read the following:For those with the means to foot the bill, an independent midwife can indeed offer something your average, overworked NHS doctor cannot: she has time to build up a rapport with the expectant mother, displays empathy and actually listens rather than bossing around. Without such qualities the lobbying would hardly make an impact. Callousness and overweening arrogance are – alas – not in short supply amongst medical professionals, many of whom have a less considerate bedside manner than Gregory House. Nor would I dismiss the testim... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439505 Tue, 13 May 2008 14:22:00 +0100 1439505 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1336649&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fmidwives-and-home-births-truth.html A regular reader points me towards a sickeningly mawkish article in the Guardian about a midwife who specialises in home births.She exudes a confidence that belies her relative inexperience, which perhaps goes some way to explaining why she is so suited to midwifery.Their words, not mine. But it sums it all up. Make sure there is a doctor close by when you have your baby. (Source: NHS Blog Doctor) NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1336649 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:45:00 +0100 1336649 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1306012&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fb-list-celebrities-promote-home-births.html The home birth brigade are getting ready for another outing. The government is all in favour. Home births are cheaper than hospital births. A collection of “B” list celebrities are promoting home births. Listen to failed chat-show host, Big Brother front-end and ex-drug addict Davina McCall:Davina McCall had all three of her children at home after hearing a friend espouse the practice as "empowering, beautiful and spiritual".English Home birth "expert""I wasn't like, 'I have to have a home birth at all costs'. It was all down to the safety of my baby, but late scans with all three showed there wasn't anything wrong so it seemed like a lovely place to have a child.... And, if I'd been in hospital, I'm pretty sure I would have had an epidural and I'm really glad I didn't."You do not have... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1306012 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:47:00 +0100 1306012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1246585&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fhome-births-again-new-gadgets.html London - For Katrina Caslake, giving birth was not the terrifying, painful ordeal most women experience. Far from it. The midwife, from Wallington, south London, says she found it blissful, even orgasmic. “I found giving birth very sensual,” says Caslake, 44, who didn’t take painkillers for the birth of either of her sons, Aaron and Tomas, now 18 and 17.“All my erogenous zones were stimulated. I was making sounds very similar to a sexual climax. And it was a very definite climax. I was doing the most feminine thing a woman can do and it felt fantastic.” (Sensual Birth by Anastasia Stephens at Birth buddies)+++++++++++Each to his own. I am sure that Birth Buddies have many happy clients and even more supporters, but I cannot buy into it. We are back to the thorny subject of home b... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1246585 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:06:00 +0100 1246585 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1194811&cid=t_159573_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F227398933%2Fmagnesium_sulfate_may_cut_the_risk_of_cerebral_palsy.html Doctors claim that administering magnesium sulfate just before birth can cut the risk of cerebral palsy in half for premature babies. Magnesium sulfate is used to treat high blood pressure due to pregnancy and to stop early labor. Now the benefits are being weighed for the administration to premature babies. Cerebral palsy, a complication due to premature birth, (infants born before 37 weeks), is caused by damage to the parts of the brain responsible for motor control and coordination. How does magnesium sulfate work to prevent the damage to the brain? Doctors say that it “opens up blood vessels” in the brain. In a study of women whose water broke early, administering the compound reduced the likelihood of cerebral palsy in half. Those who received the compound were compared to... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1194811 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:00:18 +0100 1194811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1909220&cid=t_159573_177_f&fid=38133&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FTubalReversalBlog%2F%7E3%2F286469515%2Fpregnancy-after-tubal-reversal.html Women come from all over the world to Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center for tubal reversal surgery. It is natural, and appropriate, for them to ask what their chances will be for pregnancy after a tubal reversal procedure performed by Dr. Berger. This important question about the anticipated [...] (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog) Tubal Reversal Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1909220 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:38:03 +0100 1909220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=477903&cid=t_159573_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fmore-from-madwives.html Unexpected cord prolapseWe digress from MTAS for a moment to take another quick look at the Independent Midwives, or “madwives” as Dr Crippen prefers to call them.These are the people who believe in home births and whose minds are closed to any argument, however rational, that suggests that home births are dangerous.All doctors have medical negligence insurance either through private companies such as the Medical Protection Society or, for some in the hospital service, from the Crown. Dr Crippen has never been sued. Yet. I do not know what tomorrow’s post will bring. I am human. I take comfort from that fact that if I do make some dreadful mistake at least the victim of that mistake will be properly compensated.There are plenty of insurance companies that will insure doctors. It is p... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=477903 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:36:00 +0100 477903