Medical Malpractice

• Doctors Need to Be Aware of Possible Condition

  Robert Blanchard | November 29, 2006 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL

  With the rise in obesity, there is also expected to be a rise in obesity related medical conditions. Many such conditions only require long term management, but some require instant identification and appropriate medical intervention. Such is the case with the condition known as Pseudotumor Cerebris. Overweight women of childbearing age are at risk and the condition causes and increase in...

• Protect Yourself in the Hospital

  Ben Glass | November 29, 2006 5:32 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Washington Post has a great little article written by Susan Morse on how patients can protect themselves in the hospital. Susan points out that human error kills as many as 98,000 Americans a year, according to the institute of medicine. She gives nine tips for patients.1. If you are having surgery and can choose where it will be done, select a hospital where the procedure is done...

• Tissue Supplier Reports Infection From Cadaver Tissue Prompting Recall

  Jack Landskroner | November 29, 2006 2:22 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  For the third time in the last year a supplier of human tissue used in surgical procedures has recalled tissue because of safety concerns. A Minnesota patient apparently was infected with an unusual germ from cadaver tissue used during routine knee surgery -- a discovery that has led the nation's largest tissue bank to ask 750 hospitals around the country to return 2,400 tendons and other body...

• Are all Doctors good.

  Jeremy Thurman | November 28, 2006 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  In the wake of the tort reform debate, you keep hearing how doctors are leaving states and how we need more doctors. Maybe I no longer live in a small community, but when I did I remember several people driving an hour away to a larger community where we felt the quality of care was better.Now here's my hypothesis. Is it better to have fewer doctors who are good doctors or to have more doctors...

• Hospitals Are Not Fast Enough to Prevent Death From Heart Attacks

  Scott Smith | November 24, 2006 1:47 PM | 0 CommentsColumbus, OH

  Researchers found only a small percentage of hospitals meet nationally recognized standards in preventing death from heart attacks. The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology found even the top hospital performers met the minimum guidelines half of the time to the prevent the wrongful death of its patients. Only one third of all hospitals were found to provide emergency...

• Personal Injury Appeals

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | November 22, 2006 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA

  A wise, old personal injury attorney once said "The injured person doesn't make any money on appeal."The reason that appeal is bad for the plaintiff is that the best an appellate court can ever do is to reaffirm something good that has already happened in the trial court. If an injured person or a family whose loved one has been killed due to someone else's fault gets a big verdict, the...

• Medical Identity Theft Can Kill

  Bob Carroll | November 22, 2006 4:00 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  If you thought identity theft could only lead to financial problems, time to think again.Fast-Growing Medical Identity Theft Has Lethal ConsequencesFrom a Boston psychiatrist who submitted false bills to insurance companies, marring the medical records of several patients, to a Florida woman who found an imposter had led a hospital to record a false blood type causing a potentially fatal error,...

• Medical Malpractice Suit Could Challenge Illinois Caps

  Jamie G. Goldstein | November 21, 2006 7:38 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL

  Illinois lawyers have filed a suit that will likely challenge the medical malpractice caps on recovery.The lawsuit - filed Monday against a doctor and the Cook County hospital where the girl was delivered in October 2005 - claims the state's caps on non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, unconstitutionally limit what 13-month-old Abigaile LeBron and her family should receive.The...

• Suit Challenges Illinois Caps on Damage Awards

  David Lowe | November 21, 2006 4:31 PM | 2 CommentsMilwaukee, WI

  My colleague Jeffrey M.Goldberg, a nationally-renowned trial attorney who is an expert in birth injury cases, has filed a medical malpractice suit in Illinois on behalf of a child born with cerebral palsy and severe brain damage as the result of a mismanaged labor and delivery. The suit seeks fair compensation for the child and his family, but argues that fair compensation can only be provided...

• Pharmacy Errors and Tips on Avoiding Them

  Ken Margolin | November 21, 2006 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Pharmacy errors cause over 7,000 deaths per year, and around 5% of the more than 3 billion prescriptions filled are incorrect, according to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). The NABP has even created a special task force to combat medication errors in pharmacies as the number of prescriptions increases and the potential for error rises as well. Pharmacy medication errors...