Medical Malpractice

• $11.7 Million Verdict For Paralyzed Teenager After Botched Surgery

  M. Brandon Smith | March 24, 2007 9:27 AM | 1 CommentAtlanta, GA

  Imagine you are a 19-year-old teenager in your freshman year of college and you are experiencing chronic back pain. Imagine that you are told you should have a rather normal back surgery in order to correct the problem. You are reluctant to have the surgery at first, after all no one likes surgery, but get convinced by your doctors that it is a good idea. You walk into the surgery but you never...

• Medical Board Puts Physicans Over Patients

  M. Brandon Smith | August 04, 2006 1:01 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  In Florida, the state medical licensing board has decided against stricter discipline for surgeons who operate on the wrong body part or the wrong patient. Wait, did you read that right? Yes unfortunately you did. Does that seem right? Without question, this writer can hardly imagine how. A through review of a medical chart or a through patient evaluation should eliminate this type of mistakes...

• Unnecessary Hysterectomy Costs Woman Opportunity Of Larger Family

  M. Brandon Smith | August 04, 2006 12:42 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  A Seattle jury awarded $1.75 million to a woman after Dr. Jeffrey Gabel, an osteopathic physician, performed a hysterectomy on her without informed consent in 2003. The jury found that Dr. Gable failed to suggest alternative, less invasive, treatments to the 22 year old before she signed a consent form allowing the operation. A hysterectomy involves the removal of the uterus and is most often...

• Doctor Says To Patient: "Sue Me"

  M. Brandon Smith | August 03, 2006 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  What is a 61-year-old woman's right parotid gland worth? That is the question in a medical malpractice case before a Fulton County jury after a doctor and his hospital conducted 13 different radiation treatments on the wrong side of Dariel Hurt's face. The parotid gland, which helps produce silva, is located on the side of the face just below the ear and was permanently damaged as a result of...

• LASIK Medical Malpractice Suit Results In $3 Million Verdict

  M. Brandon Smith | April 19, 2006 12:53 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA

  Lowell Larson filed suit against Dr. Jeffery R. Weis and Northern Reflective Surgery Center of Hermantown after alleging they failed to warn him of the risks associated with LASIK surgery and caused "significant and permanent disturbances to his vision". The eight person jury selected in the case agreed and awarded Larson $3,002,950. According to DuluthNewsTribune.comThe 10th and final question...