Did you know that driving while speaking on a cell phone quadruples the risk of accidents? If you are in an accident while using a cell phone, criminal charges can result. This is the type of issue we plan to bring to your attention in Perspective. In this edition, you’ll find several articles that address staying healthy—while dieting, while traveling in an airplane, and while taking prescription medications. We’ve also included an update on a very timely issue: automobile tires.

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MEDICARE UPDATE
One individual’s right to sue has delivered good news for all Medicare patients and their families. For 20 years, the federal government has refused to release information on medical errors doctors or hospitals make during Medicare patient care. Ending this long-standing policy, federal officials will inform Medicare patients if health care fails to meet professionally recognized standards, and also inform them of any legal actions against doctors and hospitals. The result? Patients, their families, or their estates can use information provided by federal investigators in complaints or lawsuits against physicians or medical institutions that provide substandard care. This policy change came from one citizen’s lawsuit. After his mother, a Medicare hospital patient, died of a stroke while under treatment for asthma and hypertension, he brought suit against the government. When a state medical peer review group denied his request for information, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials ordered the state to disclose its secret findings. HHS also recommended modifying Medicare policy so patients in similar cases would have access to care information.