Ron - Festinger Law Offices

19/04/2016

You've been injured while in medical treatment. When should you get legal advice? (article is in Hebrew. Please send me a request if you want an English translation)

http://tinyurl.com/ronfest1

נשאלת השאלה: כאשר אדם חושש או חושד כי נפגע במהלך פרוצדורה רפואית, יתכן ובשל רשלנות רפואית, מתי המועד האופטימלי להיוועץ בעורך דין? בכל מקרה של חשש לרשלנות רפואית...

17/04/2016

Defensive Medicine in Israel – A Nationwide Survey

Background

Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability. We studied the extent, reasons, and characteristics of defensive medicine in the Israeli health care system.

Conclusions

Defensive medicine is very prevalent in daily physician practice in all medical disciplines. It exposes patients to complications due to unnecessary tests and procedures, affects quality of care and costs, and undermines doctor-patient relationships. Further studies are needed to understand how to minimize defensive medicine resulting from an increased malpractice liability market.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042613

14/04/2016

The Society for Patients Rights in Israel is a non-profit organization which helps patients and their families claim their healthcare rights and obtain necessary services from the health plans, hospitals and other medical facilities. While most of our resources on the website are in Hebrew, we have translated a large amount of content into English and aim to continually improve and expand our English content. Our English navigation menu is on the left side of the screen, or you may navigate content in both Hebrew and English by clicking on any of the following topics

http://www.patients-rights.org/index.aspx?id=2263

12/04/2016

This is a helpful website with some information in English discussing medical malpractice. Also take a look at their links section:

http://www.kolzchut.org.il/en/Medical_Malpractice

11/04/2016

Say the Truth and Say it Quickly

The report of the Institute of Medicine, published in the United States in 1999, reverberated throughout the world. The report showed that more people in the United States die in hospitals from mistakes in the course of medical treatment (medical malpractice) than from cancer, AIDS or car accidents. Public interest generated by this finding was enormous, and medical malpractice became a “hot” issue from a social, legal, administrative and ethical perspective. It was not surprising that the intervention of the regulatory authorities was all-encompassing and swift and engendered the beginning of a profound and fundamental change, albeit slow, in the way medical practice is conducted in the United States and throughout the Western world.

http://www.ima.org.il/ENG/ViewCategory.aspx?CategoryId=4498

IMA | Israel Medical Association

10/04/2016

Yikes "Fact: According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), medical negligence is the third leading cause of death in the U.S.—right behind heart disease and cancer.

In 2012, over $3 billion was spent in medical malpractice payouts, averaging one payout every 43 minutes".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2013/05/16/10-things-you-want-to-know-about-medical-malpractice/

What is medical malpractice—and how do you know if you're a victim?

10/04/2016

English speakers in Israel don't have much updated information on the internet about their legal rights when it comes to medical malpractice and personal injury law. I will therefore post various pieces of information that I can find from independent sources on these topics for the English speaking public's benefit. For example in 2007 MARSH the huge professional insurance company published a report called "Review and Feasiblity Study: Alternative Market Solutions for Medical Malpractice Liability Cover in the State of Israel"
http://www.ag.mof.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/58B41453-D1EE-4161-8F42-2C23B221226D/0/FINAL15082007executivesummaryblack.pdf