Thomas & Wan is a law firm dedicated to helping families and children injured by toxic substances, brain injuries, birth injuries, medical malpractice, dangerous drugs and defective products.
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Thomas & Wan, LLP has recently moved! We are now located at 1710 Sunset Blvd., Houston, Texas 77005 which is very close to Rice University. We are very happy to be in our new space and are located on the second floor.
The Food and Drug Administration has announced that a recalled medical tissue device "could cause more problems than originally thought." The device, Octopus Nuvo Tissue Stabilizer, was recalled by Medtronic Inc. in September because of its potential to break during use, posing a danger to patients. Now, officials are saying that using the product could cause severe injury or death and demand health care facilities cease using them. The recall has been stepped up to a Class 1 Recall according to Medtronic. Read the full story here .
The Dallas Morning News has a good story on getting to the real issues in high health care costs, and it's not so-called greedy lawyers...it's the insurance companies. Damage caps do not work--they only punish children, retired people and low-income people. They don't work, period.
Yet another thing Texas chooses to underfund...the Texas Medical Board... Choosing not to discipline gross misconduct of these bad apples brings down the good work that most physicians provide to us, thus lowering the health care standards to the detriment of everyone. As Public Citizen reports, 459 Physicians Have Been Sanctioned by Texas Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions But Not Disciplined by the State Medical Board: Fifty-eight percent of Texas doctors who have been sanctioned for serious offenses by health care entities, mainly hospitals, over the past two decades have never been disciplined by the state medical board . This shows that the state must do a much better job to protect patients from such dangerous doctors, Public Citizen told Gov. Rick Perry today. Some facts contained in the report regarding the severity of the offenses of the 459 doctors who escaped board sanctions include: • Many of the physicians were disciplined by hospit...
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