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The satirical Onion had a funny “article” called “Childless Man Wonders Who’ll Be There To Neglect Him When He’s Old.” “Fretting anxiously over what the future held for him, local childless man Gary D’Amore reportedly wondered Tuesday who would be there to neglect him when he grew old. “Most of my friends can count on

Punitive Damages

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell stupidly decided that due process required punitive damages should be a single digit ratio to compensatory damages. In that case, the Supreme Court overturned a punitive damages award with a 145-to-1 ratio to compensatory damages. Recently Reuters had an article

Accident or Homicide?

On April 9, Noemi Noto suffered head trauma after she hit the ground during the altercation with another resident at the Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. The resident died from her injuries three days later at Staten Island University North Hospital. The coroner and medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Officials believe that

AI and Sepsis

Each year in the United States, sepsis kills more than a quarter million people—more than stroke, diabetes, or lung cancer. Currently, there’s no single test for sepsis. Health-care providers must rely on their own clinical impressions. The SIRS criteria identifies at risk patients if two of four clinical signs—body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, white-blood-cell count—are abnormal.

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