Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Medical Malpractice Caps May Be Removed by Two State Supreme Courts

  Will Parker | September 29, 2009 4:08 PM | 3 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A recent article from American Medical News by Amy Lynn Sorrel states Supreme Court judges in two states are set to decide whether or not to do away with limits on non-economic damages in medical...

• Falsified and Missing Records Cover Up Medical Malpractice

  Will Parker | July 28, 2009 2:04 PM | 2 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Most of trust that doctors and hospitals will do the right thing and put us, the patients, first. I mean, doctors take an oath to the effect, right? Well, if you do put all your trust in their...

• 10,000 Veterans Possibly At Risk After Medical Procedure With Unsterilized Equipment

  Amanda Wick | April 02, 2009 10:27 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It seems like just yesterday I remember when The Washington Post wrote about the scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a medical facility for Veterans located in Washington, D.C. I was living...

• Children at Higher Risk for Medical Errors

  Amanda Schlager | September 22, 2008 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsColumbia, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Although medical errors are common in both children and adults, the consequences of these mistakes can be more serious in children, according to doctors. Pediatrics, a medical journal, published a...

• Deaths Reported in Patients Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation of Tumors

  Courtney Mills | December 13, 2007 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsSpartanburg, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The FDA made a public announcement recently about the association between radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of lung tumors and patient deaths. The FDA has received several reports of patient deaths linked to lung tumor ablation with RFA devices. According to the government agency, patient selection, follow-up care, and technical use of these devices may have contributed to patient...

• Four Transplant Recipients Contract H.I.V. in Chicago

  Courtney Mills | November 14, 2007 5:26 PM | 0 CommentsSpartanburg, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Four patients in Chicago tested positive for H.I.V. after receiving organs from an H.I.V. - infected organ donor. Two patients were infected at the University of Chicago Medical Center, one at Northwestern University Medical Center, and one transplant patient was infected at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.The story was first reported by the Chicago Tribune. The transplant recipients...

• Health Courts?

  Ric Davis | September 14, 2007 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The following is an interesting article from Lawyers Weekly on Health Courts. Should medical malpractice claims be decided by an administrator in the medical profession? Should the injured patients' remedies be capped and limited in the interest of economic expediency? You decide............Doctors and tort reformers are pushing legislation in both houses of Congress to fund pilot projects...

• Teen Dead After Wisdom Teeth Removed

  Jenny Albano | July 15, 2007 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsSpartanburg, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A teen attended a dental surgeon in Waterloo, Ontario last week to get his wisdom teeth removed, but instead he died.After Leejay Levene was put under general anesthesia, the anesthesiologist noticed that he was struggling for air. After the anesthesiologist attempted to resuscitate Leejay, 911 was called.Paramedics and doctors tried everything to try and keep the boy alive, but the next day...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack

  Harold Christian | July 09, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A new study links the Type II Diabetes drug Avandia with a 43% increase in the risk of a heart attack, but the manufacturer of Avandia, Glaxo Smith Klein, continue to deny such claim and claim that such statements are "false and misleading". However, it appears that Avandia, much like Vioxx, was placed on the market without proper warnings for risk of harm to the patient, even though the...

• Health Care Lobby Contests Ability of Jurors to Make Decisions in Medical Malpractice Cases

  Harold Christian | July 02, 2007 1:38 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Even though jurors sit everyday and make decisions on criminal cases on the guilt and innocence of people, deciding who will go to jail and who will remain free, and even make decisions on who will receive a death penalty or be permitted to live, medical malpractice insurance companies do not believe that these same jurors are competent to receive testimony and evidence of medical malpractice...