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 'counsel'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:32 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952794&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FII6rtUWA2_4%2F By Gene HealySo for three months now, we’ve been at war in a country that the president’s own secretary of defense admits is “not a vital interest for the United States.” Turns out, it’s also a war that the president’s own attorney general believes to be illegal. That’s what I get from Charlie Savage’s recent reporting on how the White House “forum-shopped” its way to its current position on the War Powers Resolution, to wit, you’re not engaged in “hostilities” if you’re hitting someone but they can’t hit you back. As the WPR’s 60-day deadline approached, the Pentagon’s general counsel and, more importantly, the head of the president’s Office of Legal Counsel, Caroline D. Krass, advi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952794 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:26:01 +0100 4952794 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934097&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQifV1CO3_to%2F By Gene HealyPardon the somewhat trite Orwell reference in the title to this post. But sometimes this administration’s wordgames make it hard to resist invoking our keenest analyst of politics and the English language. Some months ago, the Obama team began telling us that the Libyan War wasn’t a war—it was a “kinetic military action.” (Go here to watch Defense Secretary Robert Gates try—and fail—to maintain a straight face selling that line to Katie Couric on 60 Minutes). In April, the president’s Office of Legal Counsel made the (bogus) argument that the president hadn’t violated the War Powers Resolution because the WPR recognized his authority to engage in hostilities for at least 60 days without congressional approval.  We’re... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934097 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:40:16 +0100 4934097 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921394&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgVc8IeTIlco%2F The objective has changed from protecting civilians to regime change. The war itself has gone on now for as long as the unauthorized war in Kosovo in 1999. Jack Goldsmith concludes: “as the days drag on, and as our deep involvement persists, it becomes harder and harder to represent that this mission is limited in nature, duration, and scope.” Time Running Out in Libya? is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921394 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:41:38 +0100 4921394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4575066&cid=t_322632_97_f&fid=35606&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theangriestpharmacist.com%2F2011%2F03%2F10%2Fno-fix-needed-youre-an-idiot%2F Some of you may remember the post from a few days ago where a guy asked me to fix his inhaler / aerochamber. Well, tonight I finally filled in all the holes. He came back in...as angry as every. I asked him what the problem was and his exact response was precious: "I asked you what I'd need to do if I get this inhaler home and it didn't work and you SWORE UP AND DOWN IT WOULD. Well guess what -- the motherf.er don't work. Ya'll are selling defective shit in here, and I've done spent like $80 bucks on these sumbitches and you, yeah, you...right here [pointing at me as if I were the master of all things Ventolin HFA]...are gonna give me my money back....plus some, find out whose got one of these Gaht DAMN things that work, and transfer this prescription there." Can you hear a big bellied red... The Angriest Pharmacist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4575066 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:29:45 +0100 4575066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4055717&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fbasic-health-education-not-so-basic%2F2010.10.10 The past two weeks I’ve been the “dayfloat” resident on the cardiology inpatient service. With the 30-hour-shift work “restrictions” placed on medical residents, there has been a need for new systems of care to ensure the safety of newly admitted patients and cardiology dayfloat is one of them. My job is to round with the post-call team, help them get out of the hospital on time, and then take care of their patients through the end of the work day. It’s a fairly easy rotation, as they go, though because I “float” from one team to another without patients of my own, it’s also not the most satisfying. Towards the end of my two week rotation, I was paged by a nurse because a patient’s husband wanted an update on his wife’s condition. Glancing at my “signout” — a on... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4055717 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 20:00:29 +0100 4055717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3592198&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWL-7FvrU19k%2F By Ilya ShapiroI’m a bit late to the immigration party — in part because I’ve been traveling on my Obamacare debate tour and in part because the Kagan Supreme Court nomination and end-of-term Supreme Court decisions have sucked away all my time.  Still, I do have a few things to add beyond Dan Griswold’s excellent points about what real immigration reform would look like and why Arizona’s new law, love it or hate it, at least has the benefit of raising the need for such fundamental reform into the national political discussion.  (Jeffrey Miron also offers some sensible suggestions, and Roger Pilon points out that doing nothing is simply not tenable as a matter of policy or politics.) First, the Arizona law — which I’ve actually read, unl... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3592198 Mon, 24 May 2010 11:48:31 +0100 3592198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3471771&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcUXnA_fCNyk%2F By Julian SanchezIt is more than three years since the Office of the Inspector General first brought public attention to the FBI’s systematic misuse of the National Security Letter statutes to issue fictitious “exigent letters” and obtain telecommunications records without due process. Nobody at the Bureau has been fined, or even disciplined, for  this systematic lawbreaking and the efforts to conceal it. But the bipartisan outrage expressed at a subcommittee hearing of the House Judiciary Committee this morning hints that Congress may be running out of patience—and looking for some highly-placed heads to roll. Just to refresh, Committee Chairman John Conyers summarized the main abuses in an opening statement: The IG found that more than 700 times, such information was... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3471771 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:38:11 +0100 3471771 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3171917&cid=t_322632_97_f&fid=35606&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theangriestpharmacist.com%2F2010%2F01%2F14%2Fdiagnosed-a-case-based-post%2F Older lady (50-something) calls in today….really…today January 13, 2010. “I have a pretty bad stomach ache. I’ve tried everything.” After a lengthy discussion with a lady that was pretty sharp when it came to OTC meds and taking care of herself, here were the facts: - Epigastric pain above the belly button, beneath the sternum. - Rarely radiated. Sometimes pulsated. Sometimes had back pain, but figured it was due to her job as a cashier. - Patient has (un)controlled hypertension. Her BP is high, but she is finally under treatment after years and years of uncontrolled HTN. It’s on the way down, but not to goal yet. - Has tried the following meds: Rolaids, Gaviscon, Milk of Magnesia, Fibercon, Colace, Zantac/Pepcid, Omeprazole, Protonix, and Tylenol/Ibupro... The Angriest Pharmacist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3171917 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:34:17 +0100 3171917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3075483&cid=t_322632_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FMTDefxxybWI%2F By Julian SanchezA modest proposal: Suppose that we decide to streamline our inefficient criminal justice system by treating people under suspicion of involvement with violent crime—whether or not they’ve been arrested, charged, or even informed of this suspicion—as equivalent to convicted felons.  Suppose, then, that we permit them to be stripped of certain constitutionally protected rights at the discretion of the executive branch. Outrageous?  Some depraved brainchild of the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel?  Actually, it’s the editorial position of The New York Times: Under federal law, people who pose a heightened risk of violence cannot buy or own firearms, including convicted felons, domestic abusers, the seriously mentally ill and several other... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3075483 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:40:43 +0100 3075483 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1677466&cid=t_322632_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F03%2Fgatekeepers-inside-out-abstract-2%2F Situationist contributor Sung Hui Kim’s article, “Gatekeepers Inside Out,” was published in the latest issue of Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 21, p. 411, 2008. The article is available to download for free on SSRN. Here is the abstract. * * * Gatekeepers Inside Out challenges the conventional wisdom that in-house counsel are simply “too captured” by their senior managers in their corporations to serve as effective gatekeepers of our securities markets. The author revises classical gatekeeping theory introduced by Prof. Reinier Kraakman in his seminal article (Gatekeepers: Anatomy of a Third Party Enforcement Strategy, 2 J.L. Econ. & Org. 53 (1986)). In that article, Kraakman clarified that a gatekeeping strategy requires gatekeepers “who c... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1677466 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:04:17 +0100 1677466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1411847&cid=t_322632_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F281084244%2F A House investigator charged that the FDA’s Office of Chief Counsel has undermined a congressional drug safety investigation, InsideHealthPolicy* reports. Energy and Commerce Committee investigator David Nelson told a bipartisan committee the probe was stymied because the FDA office denied investigators access to documents and personnel, the web site wrote. Committee investigators interviewed operational and field staff at FDA - who were involved in heparin inspections and scientific analyses - but not agency lawyers involved in policy decisions, according to InsideHealthPolicy. “We’ve not gotten interviews with the counselors that make many of these decisions or at least have veto authority over those decisions,” Nelson told the committee. Nelson also told the House panel that... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1411847 Thu, 01 May 2008 06:06:47 +0100 1411847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=956252&cid=t_322632_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F170782382%2F Gerald Masoudi is back. After spending the last two years as deputy assistant attorney general in charge of international, policy and appellate matters in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, he replaces Sheldon Bradshaw, who left last month, as the chief FDA lawyer. Masoudi previously held this role - but only on acting basis - after Dan Troy resigned in November 2004. He was hired just before the controversial Troy resigned. “We are pleased to have Jerry’s expertise and insight back at HHS,” says FDA commish Andy von Eschenbach, in a brief statement. “His leadership and service will be critical to FDA’s public health mission and regulatory responsibilities.” Masoudi, who graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, where he was the editor of th... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=956252 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:24:43 +0100 956252