Medical Malpractice

• Medical Malpractice Truths and Reality

  Joe Stanley | September 28, 2007 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  I received an email from an organization purporting to be an advocate for patients> The email was advocating extensive reform of the medical malpractice laws as a solution to Americas health care crisis. The solution to Americas health care crisis is not the regulation of of lawsuits by those harmed by a broken system. The solution lies in reforming the fundamental nature of our health care...

• Ilinois Supreme Court Approves Malpractice Case Rules

  Chrissie Cole | September 27, 2007 10:54 PM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL

  Madison County Court adopted new rules this year for handling medical malpractice cases, approved by the Illinois Supreme Court, according to Chief Judge Ann Callis. The new rules require anytime a medical malpractice case is filed that the persons filing the case and the doctor meet and talk of settling.A few years ago, Doctors saw their insurance premiums increase and dozens closed up shop in...

• Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Carnival Cruise Line

  Michael Myers | September 27, 2007 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsSeattle, WA

  A recently filed lawsuit in the Federal Court in Miami alleges that the medical staff aboard the Carnival Legend, a ship that is part of the Carnival Cruise Line, committed medical malpractice. On September 6, 2006 cruise passenger, Helen Kerr, 73, was reportedly misdiagnosed and mistreated while suffering from a fluid buildup in her lungs.According to the complaint, Ms. Kerr went to the...

• Nurse Aides Blacklisted by Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services

  Beth Janicek | September 27, 2007 3:57 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX

  Nurse aides blacklisted by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services continue to get certified to work by the same agency. The complaints include abuse and stealing money from elderly patients. "The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that this occurs despite the aides being listed among 680 caregivers the state wants to keep out of its regulated facilities." Apparently, the...

• Medical Malpractice Cases Rarely Have Quick Resolutions

  Rob Curtiss | September 27, 2007 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  I often get calls from people who believe they have been the victims of medical negligence. Often these individuals will tell me that they don't want to launch a full scale malpractice suit. Rather, they only want the doctor or hospital to admit the mistake and to pay for their medical treatment related to the malpractice in the future.Unfortunately, these cases rarely resolve so easily....

• Florida Hospital Sued for Medical Malpractice

  Shannon Weidemann | September 27, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A woman died after falling at a Florida hospital and her son is now suing for medical malpractice. The 63-year-old woman was a patient at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center in 2003. The woman died from blunt force trauma to the head. A plaintiff's expert, Dr. Michael Langan from Boston General Hospital, said no. Langan said the staff ignored protocol requiring high-risk fall patients to be...

• Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled for $1.6 Million

  Randy Walton | September 27, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  An Illinois hospital and one of its doctors have settled a malpractice lawsuit for $1.6 million. The suit was filed after an infant died of severe constipation.Will County Circuit Judge Gerald Kinney approved the settlement Wednesday, more than three years after Shequetta Wilson filed the suit.Her son, Noah Wilson, was 5 months old when he died Sept. 26, 2002, of septic shock from untreated...

• Pressure Ulcers Are a Problem at Hospitals

  Ed Normand | September 27, 2007 12:39 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  The Hill-Rom Company has published a study indicating that half of all hospital patients risk acquiring pressure ulcers or bed sores during the hospital stay. First to blame are the hospitals for not taking precautions to prevent the sores from starting. This study follows the recent U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision to stop reimbursement to hospitals for the cost...

• Doctors Who Claim to be Pediatricians Sometime Aren't

  Dan Frith | September 26, 2007 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Lets say you are new to an area...your child is sick....and you pick up the phone book to look for a pediatrician. You know that a pediatrician is a physician who has specialized training in caring for infants and adolescents, right? Unfortunately, you maybe wrong!A recent study concludes that up to 17 percent of physicians practicing pediatrics have never been board certified and some have...

• Fentora, A Dangerous Drug

  Glenn Phillips | September 25, 2007 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsEverett, WA

  Fentanyl, a highly addictive drug that is 80 times more potent than morphine. Now, the company that makes a Fentanyl-based painkiller called Fentora is warning doctors about the proper way to prescribe it, following the deaths of four people who took the drug. According to news reports there of those deaths were due to so-called "off-label" usage, meaning doctors prescribed the drug to treat...