Cover story explores the allegations against two cardiologists who assisted plaintiff’s firms in filing fen-phen cases (see Nov. 30, Sept. 25, Sept. 21), and includes responses/explanations from the doctors themselves. Also check out the sidebar item recounting the experience of a fen-phen user who got hustled through one law firm’s “hotel room echo” operation and was told she had serious heart damage, but had a devil of a time trying to extract details or a copy of the echo report from the lawyers’ cardiologist. Finally she consulted a different cardiologist who did an echocardiogram and told her not to worry, her heart was fine (Berkeley Rice, “Do these doctors give medicine a black eye?”, Medical Economics, Dec. 19) (via LitiGator)
Medical Economics on fen-phen
Cover story explores the allegations against two cardiologists who assisted plaintiff’s firms in filing fen-phen cases (see Nov. 30, Sept. 25, Sept. 21), and includes responses/explanations from the doctors themselves. Also check out the sidebar item recounting the experience of a fen-phen user who got hustled through one law firm’s “hotel room echo” operation and […]
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