Medical Malpractice

• Single Payer Health Care Reform Is In Sight - But Watch Out For Big Insurance Trying To Stop It

  Wayne Parsons | July 21, 2009 3:11 PM | 5 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  I just watched a disgusting story on CNN about a $900 wheelchair. The wheelchair can be bought on new E-Bay for $300 with free shipping. Or the manufacturer will sell it to you for $600. But if you...

• Widow fulfills vow to ensure hospitals improve communication to save lives

  David Mittleman | July 21, 2009 2:55 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI

  Vincent Hereford died from sepsis—poisoning from the spread of toxins or bacteria into the body—at 44, leaving behind his wife and two teenage children. Despite her devastating loss,...

• Choosing the Right Doctor

  David Mittleman | July 20, 2009 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone. Many of you probably recognize this famous quote as part of the English...

• Inadequate Staffing Takes its Toll in Health Care Industry

  Don Greiwe | July 20, 2009 11:02 AM | 3 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Recently, the American Nurses Association (ANA) released the results of an ongoing survey of nurses across the U.S., and the findings are grim. The survey received more than 15,000 responses from...

• Hawaii Has Third Swine Flu Death As Research Shows That H1N1 Pandemic Virus Is More Dangerous Than Health Officials Admit

  Wayne Parsons | July 18, 2009 4:10 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  Hawaii has now recorded its third swine flu death when a Big Island woman in he early 50s died on July 7 at Kona Community Hospital. The first Hawaii swine flu death happened on June 6 when a woman...

• New Study Of Danish Women Connects Hormone Therapy And Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer

  Wayne Parsons | July 17, 2009 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports an important study regarding womens' health on the connection between Hormone therapy and ovarian cancer. The research measured the...

• Scientists Uncover How Staph Infections Change Our Immune System

  Wayne Parsons | July 17, 2009 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  Attorneys handling personal injury and medical malpractice cases often get calls from patients who have contracted a Staph infection in a hospital and often after a surgery. Of course the patient is...

• Just How Much do Malpractice Suits Raise Health Care Costs?

  Mike Ferrara | July 16, 2009 10:22 PM | 21 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  A succinct op-ed in The New York Times earlier this week by UPenn Law School professor Tom Baker made some terrific points about medical malpractice, and the expensive malpractice insurance that...

• Exposure to Hepatitis C Could Spark Lawsuits

  Alan Ripka | July 16, 2009 12:14 PM | 5 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Today’s news and newspapers uncovers Northern Westchester hospital, in Westchester NY, as having potentially exposing 6,000 patients to Hepatitis C. The patients were injected with what they...

• 5 Vacation Tips to Keep You from Being an Emergency Room Malpractice Victim

  Emily Mapp Brannon | July 16, 2009 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, OBX & Rocky Mount, NC

  Vacations are a time when we seem to over indulge on food, unusual activities and often in unfamiliar places. Unfortunately, when you combine these three conditions it puts a good number of people...