Comments on: From the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” files

By: Update: Lawrence Poliner v. Texas Health Systems appeal

Update: Lawrence Poliner v. Texas Health Systems appeal — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:23:08 +0000

[…] temporary limitation rather than by the five-month suspension. We covered the initial $366 million verdict in 2004, the outraged medical blogosphere reaction, and the remittitur to a still ludicrous $22.5 million […]

By: Procare

Procare — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:22:47 +0000

Hospital Is Sued for Suspending Doctor Accused of Malpractice

From Overlawyered: In three separate cases in 1997, nurses at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas’s cardiac catherterization lab expressed concerns about Dr. Lawrence R. Poliner’s care of patients. When the director of the lab, Dr. John Levin, alleged to t…

By: Procare

Procare — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:21:02 +0000

Hospital Is Sued for Suspending Doctor Accused of Malpractice

By: A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure

A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:21:22 +0000

Does Due Diligence Matter???

Lifted from Overlawyered, the story of a $366 million verdict against the medical director of a hospital cath lab, the head of the cardiology section, and the chief of medicine