Research consistently shows that for nurses, the risk of making a medical error significantly increases when work shifts are longer than 12 hours, when nurses work overtime or when nurses work more than 40 hours per week. Yet, hospitals in many states continue to force nurses to work mandatory overtime, putting patients at risk and impairing many nurses’ job satisfaction.…
Every July, new doctors-in-training begin their residencies. According to a 2012 study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, this may have something to do with the 10 percent annual spike in fatalities recorded every July in teaching hospitals. Doctor inexperience is one threat facing patients. But there are many others. If you’re getting care in a hospital, or…
Restitution awarded to the survivors of child pornography, following the conviction of a former college professor A former college professor who was recently convicted of possessing child pornography will now have to pay $78,900 in restitution to some of the victims – those who were featured in the images and videos that the man collected and shared. The man, who…
Today, child pornography victims won an important court victory in preventing additional copies being made for defense experts of images depicting them. Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California held that the Adam Walsh Child and Protection Safety Act of 2006 permitted the Government to refuse making a mirror copy of computer…