2016 Midyear Conference & CLE: At-Door Registration is Available | TTLA Midyear Conference, May 5-6, San Antonio Hilton Palacio del Rio, 200 South Alamo Street. San Antonio on the River Walk . . . CLE Seminar with Pat Malone plus 5 hours on Reptile, and Med Mal breakout . . . Wednesday Board of Directors Reception . . . amazing Thursday night party at the Briscoe Museum . . . what are you waiting for? Click on the headline to learn more and register. | Texas Tribune Daily Brief | | Researchers: Medical Errors Now 3rd Leading Cause of Death in US | | An analysis, published in the BMJ, shows that "medical errors" in hospitals and other health care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third leading cause of death in the US -- claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer's. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who led the research, said in an interview that the category includes everything from bad doctors to more systemic issues such as communication breakdowns when patients are handed off from one department to another. "It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care," Makary said. Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post 05/04/2016 | Read Article: The Washington Post | Father to Appeal Decision in Lawsuit Over Boy's Swimming Death | | The father of a young boy from Minnesota who died of a rare brain disease after swimming in Lily Lake in Stillwater will appeal a decision dismissing his lawsuit against the city. The plaintiff's 9-year-old son died in 2012 of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a disease targeting the central nervous system caused by infection from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Two years prior, a 7-year-old girl also died of the rare brain disease after swimming in Lily Lake. The lawsuit filed by the father of the boy who died alleged that the city was aware that the lake contained the disease-causing parasite, but did nothing to warn swimmers. Mary Divine, TwinCities.com 04/29/2016 | Read Article: TwinCities.com | | |