Woman scarred by wrong tissue surgery seeks reform
Linda McDougal of Woodville Wisconsin relives a misdiagnosed cancer scare after a lab mix up led to a double mastectomy on tissue from another woman. She joins critics of proposed malpractice damage caps and pursues legal action with Robins Kaplan.
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Minneapolis
Linda McDougal
McDougal
S. McDougal
Woodville
Wis
Jerry
Jerry McDougal
Bush
Washington
Center For Justice and Democracy
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Chresi
Minnesota
Study links single parent homes to higher youth psychiatric risk
A Swedish study of almost 1 million children found that those in single parent families face about double the risk of serious psychiatric issues and addiction by age 26, with higher hospitalization and self harm rates than peers in two parent homes. The research tracked 65,085 single parent and 21,257 two parent children over a decade using national registries.
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London
Dawn Dovonna-Hyde
Sweden
Tom O'Connor
Institute of Psychiatry
King’s College
Lancet
United States
Myron Belfer
World Health Organization
Belfer
Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
Umen University
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm
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