UNLABELLED This report describes an unprecedented malpractice litigation on a neurology case. A young woman developed multiple complications after a simple hysterectomy: pan-peritonitis, post-op deep coma with hypotension, generalized anasarca, hyponatremia, hemolysis, cerebral hypoxia and renal shutdown requiring dialysis and multiple-unit blood transfusions. She survived 43 days in Neuro-ICU,...

A review of litigation cases in the Westlaw database from September 1, 1987, to October 23, 2019, was performed. total 346 aortic aneurysms (196) and dissections (150) were identified. Physician defendants emergency medicine (29%), cardiology (20%), internal (14%), radiology (11%), cardiothoracic surgery (10%), vascular (10%). Litigation claims included failure or delay diagnosis treatment 80% ...

This matter is before the Court on Defendant Google Technology, Inc.'s ("Google") Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff Search King, Inc.'s ("Search King") Complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). The matter has been fully briefed and is now ripe for determination. Upon review of the parties' submissions, and for the reasons set forth below, the Court grants Google's motion to dism...

An unfortunate phenomenon continues to be encountered that creates confusion and undermines justice: misleading or false testimony by individuals variously termed "hired guns" or "professional testifiers." Such marginally ethical activity could be inferred from (a) the frequency with which they testify, espedally when preponderantly for the same cohort of plaintiff or defense law firms, (b) inv...

A challenge for educators is to fuse the learning of information literacy to an academic education in such a way that the outcome is systematic and sustainable learning for students. This challenge can be answered through longterm commitment to information literacy education bound to organisation-wide, renewable strategic planning and driven through systemic reform. This paper explores the proc...

Dialogism provides the grounds for building a comprehensive model of discourse and it is focused on the multiplicity of perspectives (i.e., voices). Dialogism can be present in any type of text, while voices become themes or recurrent topics emerging from the discourse. In this study, we examine the extent that differences between self-explanations and thinkalouds can be detected using computat...

The position of witnesses in court has a fairly important role as evidence if other is not available to provide information about an incident/dispute. In the texts fiqh books, matter witnessing required be male except for related property rights (huquq al-amwal) or body rights. As women's are recognized when compared men, this means that there gap between and reality society. According Ibn Rush...