Medical Malpractice

• Florida's Board Of Medicine Not Doing Its Job

  Bob Carroll | August 05, 2006 4:37 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  The Florida Board of Medicine is accused of inattention, delay, laxity and endangering patients in its monitoring of Florida physicians. The editorial from the Palm Beach Post uses the case of a Boynton Beach plastic surgeon to illustrate the Board's ineptness. Making Florida safe for medical malpracticeFlorida needs a better system of monitoring the state's 50,000 doctors, because the state...

• 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...

• FDA Announces Recall of Certain Welch Allyn Automated External Defibrillators

  Staff Writer | July 31, 2006 6:39 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and MRL, Inc (a Welch Allyn company), recently notified healthcare professionals about the class 1 recall of 1184 automated external defibrillators ([AEDs] Welch Allyn PIC 50, catalog #97108X) manufactured during February 2002 to October 2004; 673 units were sold within the United States.The recall occured because of an electrical contact problem that...

• Crime, Neglect and Abuse Go Unchecked in Nursing Homes

  Ricky Bagolie | July 03, 2006 1:07 AM | 0 CommentsJersey City, NJ

  Lawsuits may be the only effective weapon available to end abuse and neglect in nursing homes. The idea is to make is to make it more expensive to give poor care than it is to give good care as most problems are the result of greedy nursing home corporations. According to an article by Evelyn Pringle of opednews.com, "Where a nursing home is located and who owns it was found to be critical...

• FDA licenses new vaccine to reduce risk of shingles for older Americans

  Staff Writer | June 23, 2006 11:51 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed a new medication called Zostavax which is designed to reduce the risk of shingles in people 60 years of age or older. Shingles is a disease caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. After an attack of chicken pox, the virus can lie dormant in certain nerve tissues. As people age, sometimes the virus will reappear in the form of shingles...

• Dentist Keeps Two Secrets Too Many

  Bob Carroll | May 26, 2006 4:42 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A news story from the Gulf Coast of Florida tells us how a dental malpractice case uncovered two secrets that should never have been kept from a patient. We ought to be able to trust our healthcare providers. But, this North Florida patient is living in pain and the fear of AIDS because that trust was betrayed.Betrayal of Trust?Putting your trust in a medical professional is one of the most...

• Treatment Center Settles Lawsuit Related to Teen Suicide

  Robert Wolf | May 22, 2006 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A wilderness treatment center has agreed to pay $1.2 million and admit responsibility to settle a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Massachusetts teenager who killed himself while in its care, the parents' lawyers said Tuesday.Paul and Diana Lewis of East Longmeadow, Mass., sued the Aldredge Academy, also known as the Ayne Institute, in 2002 in Kanawha County Circuit Court alleging negligence...

• Drug therapy may partially reverse plaque buildup in arteries

  Staff Writer | March 30, 2006 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A study presented in a recent meeting of the American College of Cardiology demonstrates, for the first time, that significantly lowering cholesterol with a statin medication can partially reverse the buildup of plaque in the coronary arteries. Prior research had indicated that aggressive statin therapy could prevent the progression of coronary arterial plaque buildup, but this is the first...

• Cato Institute: Tort Reform Rhetoric Misleading

  Bob Carroll | February 07, 2006 4:03 AM | 0 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  In case anyone is interested in the underlying facts that are supposedly the driving force behind the claimed need for continued Tort Reform, particularly in the field of Medical Malpractice, there is this post at Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground:CATO INSTITUTE QUESTIONS LINK BETWEEN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PAYOUTS AND INSURANCE PREMIUMS . . . In "Defensive Medicine and Disappearing Doctors,"...

• Medical Malpractice and Good Samaritans

  Staff Writer | January 07, 2006 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  Rep. Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction has plans to introduce a bill to the Colorado Legislature (Good Samaritans in Health Care Act of 2006) which would protect doctors who volunteer their services from medical malpractice lawsuits.The bill is viewed among its supporters as a way to protect health care providers such as nurses, doctors, physical therapists, etc. from lawsuits when they are...