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 'damages'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028146&cid=t_135114_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBoH_b2OMl0Y%2F By Jim HarperIn February 2004, privacy advocates were put off by a Supreme Court case called Doe v. Chao, in which the Court found that the Privacy Act requires a victim of a government privacy violation to show “actual damages” before receiving any compensation. The Act appeared to provide for $1,000 per violation in statutory damages, but the Court interpreted the legislation to require that actual damages be proven, after which the victim would be entitled to a minimum award of $1,000. (Statutory damages are appropriate in privacy cases against the government because government bureaucrats pay little price themselves when their agency gets fined. A penalty is required to draw oversight and political attention to violations of the law.) Doe v. Chao was a close call given the ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028146 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:40:02 +0100 5028146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008194&cid=t_135114_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhy-its-a-bad-idea-for-a-psychiatrist-to-serve-as-an-expert-witness-for-their-patient%2F2011.07.08 In Dinah’s post “The Chapter I Wish We Had Written” an anonymous commenter wrote about his problems finding an expert witness for his or her employment discrimination case (since I don’t know if Anonymous is male or female I’m going to use a standard male pronoun in this post—apologies if I got this wrong). Anonymous asked his doctor to help with the case, but he refused. He explained to Anonymous that he would be a biased witness and Anonymous also understood that the doctor’s involvement might affect the therapeutic relationship. Anonymous’s doctor gave her a number of referrals to forensic psychiatrists, but since he was not working with an attorney no expert would take the case. Anonymous was understandably frustrated by this situation. I... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008194 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0100 5008194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3733086&cid=t_135114_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdoctor-suing-for-bad-ratings-online%2F2010.07.07 I must say I think Dr. Kimberly Henry, cosmetic surgeon, has made a big professional mistake. She has filed a lawsuit to stop online reviewers from badmouthing her on the Internet. She is seeking injunctions against at least 12 reviewers from sites such as Yelp.com and DoctorScorecard.com. Dr. Henry claims libel and defamation, invasion of privacy and interference with prospective economic advantage and is seeking $1million in general damages and $1million in special damages, etc. Now I don’t know Dr. Henry nor do I know of her plastic surgery technique. I don’t know who the disgruntled patients are or if they are unfairly targeting her. What I do know is that the Internet is here to stay and there’s no place to hide if you don’t provide excellent customer ser... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3733086 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0100 3733086 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3526969&cid=t_135114_160_f&fid=36189&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skinmdblog.com%2F42%2Fbasic-skin-care-remember-the-sunblock%2F Melanin is what makes our skin brown. This pigment is also the skin’s primary defense against the harmful rays of the sun. Being people of color, the high amount of melanin in our skin is the reason why the incidence of skin cancer is almost nil and is why our skin ages more slowly than Caucasians. Given these facts why else do we need to wear sunblock and why do we need to use it daily even though we’re practically in the shade all the time? New studies have come up showing that even intermittent exposures to the sun as short as a few minutes (like that 5 minute walk to that nearby cafe) may do sub-clinical damage to our skin. Slowly and with time these damages add up and become visible as wrinkles, pigmentation changes, dullness, increase in pore size etc. Luckily, there are numerous... Skin MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3526969 Mon, 03 May 2010 13:42:25 +0100 3526969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1991792&cid=t_135114_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F26%2Fthe-situation-of-policy-research-and-policy-outcomes%2F Yesterday, Adam Liptak published a nice article , “From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money,” in the New York Times.  In it he explores the dubious role of Exxon on the legal scholarship regarding punitive damages. * * * Two years after Exxon was hit with a $5 billion punitive damages award for the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prof. William R. Freudenburg’s phone rang. The call propelled him, the professor said the other day, into “an ethical quagmire of the bottomless pit variety.” The caller was an Exxon engineer who wanted to pay the professor to conduct a study taking a dim view of punitive damages. The Exxon Valdez case would eventually reach the Supreme Court, the engineer said, and the study would be useful in convincing the court that puni... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1991792 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:01:39 +0100 1991792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1253220&cid=t_135114_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F24%2Feating-disorder-awareness-2008%2F Eating disorders are usually thought of a teen issue, but increasingly men, adult women and girls as young as seven also suffer. They don’t fit into the usual treatment programs designed for adolescent girls. In my community, there’s a recovery program for girls aged 12 – 19, and another mental health service runs a body image support group for girls up to 18. Plenty of good videos, books and web sites target young women. Trouble is, eating disorders don’t have an expiration date, uniform causes or firm boundaries. Women, and increasingly men, may seesaw between recovery and relapse throughout their lifespan. Singer Karen Carpenter died at 42 (her death started a media fascination with severe anorexia that still continues), while Margaux Hemingway and Princess Diana str... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1253220 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:31:27 +0100 1253220