Woman paralyzed after turbulent descent
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The Associated Press reported that a woman experiencing airplane turbulence was rendered paralyzed in airspace over Texas.
A 47-year-old woman who was in the airplane's restroom at the time of the turbulence suffered a 
fractured neck, Dr. Trey Fulp, an orthopedic spine surgeon at McAllen Medical Center told The McAllen Monitor Monday. The woman, who Fulp did not identify for privacy reasons, was thrown against the ceiling.
Doctors spent six hours operating on her back after the plane landed Saturday and planned to operate on her neck Monday. The back injury left her paralyzed from the chest down,
Diabetes and Alzheimer's
A recent study by Mount Sinai faculty suggests that a gene associated with onset of type-2 diabetes also decreases in Alzheimer's disease dementia cases. The research, led by Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, Ph.D., The Aidekman Family Professor in Neurology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, was published this week in the scientific journal, Archives of Neurology.
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AB495
Dear Senator:
I am in support of AB495, a bill which will no longer protect health care providers when they injure patients. The measure voters approved was designed to limit frivolous lawsuits. It was not intended to protect doctors like Dr. Desai, who has placed the health of patients at risk. Unfortunately, when you give people special legal protections, there is always someone who will try to take advantage.
I am representing a woman whose bile duct remained shut after receiving a pyloric stenosis (stomach thickening condition most often found in infants) surgery. The surgical clips were left in her bile duct. She has three bags of fluid accumulation outside her body which she has to dump and reload several times a day. Additionally her body is unable to absorb food so she is administered nutrition intravenously at night. This has been going on since January 2009. She was referred after the botched surgery to UCLA where she is scheduled to return for corrective surgery. Limiting this woman’s recovery to alleviate this physician’s insurance responsibilities and his insurance company’s profit is unconscionable.
Please right the injustice created when the medical malpractice initiative was passed. Please vote for AB495.
Tim Titolo
