Posts tagged medical malpractice

• Patient Awake During Surgery

  James Sabatini | April 10, 2007 10:40 AM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Studies say that up to 40,000 surgery patients a year are left awake but paralyzed during surgery.Two West Virginia women say that experience caused their father to commit suicide.Sherman Sizemore, a former coal miner and Baptist minister, killed himself in February 2006, two weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery. The family has filed a lawsuit claiming medical malpractice. According to the...

• Diagnosis Momentum

  James Sabatini | March 20, 2007 9:15 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I am always looking for a catchy phrase that describes how and why a doctor has committed malpractice. The latest phrase I have discovered is diagnosis momentum. This phrase describes the tendency of each doctor brought into a case to accept blindly the initial doctor's diagnosis. It is like a rock rolling down a mountain, where the farther it rolls down the more force it gains, crushing...

• Higher C-Section Rate Due to Malpractice Fears

  Shannon Weidemann | January 24, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The rate for Caesarean Sections in the Bay State rose from 31% in 2004 to 32% in 2005. That is about two thirds of all births. There were approximately 77,000 live births in the state in 2005. Doctors cite many reasons for the increase including older women, multiple births, and malpractice fears. The more risk factors there are with a pregnancy, increases the likelihood that a doctor will...

• Connecticut Emergency Room Crisis

  James Sabatini | September 27, 2006 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Last week an Illinois woman died from a heart attack after waiting to been seen by a doctor at the emergency room. Here in Connecticut, emergency room doctors believe that it is just a matter of time until such a tragedy occurs in a Connecticut emergency room hospital.According to the Hartford Courant report: Michael Carius, chairman of the department of emergency room medicine at Norwalk...

• Three, YES 3!, Percent of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Frivolous

  Staff Writer | May 12, 2006 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A recent study in the New England Journal of medicine found that three percent of medical malpractice lawsuits filed have no verifiable injuries. This means that in 97% of all cases, there is a verifiable injury, and that lawsuit cannot be called frivolous. Justinian at corpreform.com has a great analogy at his site:The remaining question is whether malpractice was the cause of those injuries....