Posts tagged medical malpractice

• Stronger Suicide Warnings Urged For Youth on Antidepressants

  Eddie Farah | May 02, 2007 1:58 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Add a new word to your vocabulary.Suicidality. That is the thought of wanting to commit suicide. And it's not news to hear about young people on antidepressants entertaining the thought of suicide. Some are even successful.Now, for the second time in two years, the FDA is asking manufacturers to toughen up their "black box" warnings on labels, this time to specifically warn about suicidality...

• House Awards Millions in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | April 26, 2007 5:41 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Broward family and a girl left paralyzed after spinal cord surgery, may soon be able to claim their medical malpractice award.Following surgery in 1989, the girl was left paralyzed from the waist down after an operation on her spine when she was only six months old. She was born with spina bifada, a congential defect in which the spinal cord fails to properly close.In 1999, a jury found the...

• Medical Malpractice Insurance Companies, Not Lawsuits Cause High Rates

  Evan Rosen | April 12, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It seems the Insurance Industry is running out of excuses. They blamed the trial lawyers and so called frivolous lawsuits. They lobbied the legislature to change our "unfair" laws and got those changes passed but after years of change, capping both lawyer fees and pain and suffering damages for injured victims of medical negligence, medical malpractice rates still haven't gone down. This...

• Woman with Flesh-Eating Illness Files Medical Malpractice Suit

  Christina Cole | April 02, 2007 12:50 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  After developing a flesh-eating bacteria following childbirth that caused a Central Florida woman to lose her arms and legs, she is suing Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital alleging medical malpractice.The woman, 23, went to Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital to deliver her son. After giving birth, doctors told her she had contracted a flesh-eating bacteria and amputation was her...

• Study Finds Most Angioplasties Unnecessary

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  You are having chest pains and emergency room doctors believe it's a heart attack.Most commonly they turn to angioplasty - a procedure that inserts a tiny balloon into a block heart artery and inflates it so a stent can be permanently placed there.A new landmark study says about half a million of these procedures are unnecessary--the results could be as easily achieved with drugs. The findings...

• The Surgeon Who May Need A Long Vacation

  Bob Carroll | March 02, 2007 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  How many times does a plumber have to screw up when called to your house before you take him off your list? Would you give him 16 shots at doing things right?Well, there is this surgeon who is still putting on his scrubs despite an amazing trail of malpractice lawsuits.Suits allege hospitals negligent for allowing doctor to operateLANCASTER COUNTY, Pa - The 16 lawsuits pending against Dr....

• So You Call Yourself A Hospital

  Bob Carroll | February 15, 2007 5:18 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  "The fundamental problem with physician-owned specialty hospitals is that decision-making is more likely driven by financial interests rather than what is best for patients" These are not my words even though I have expressed this same thought many times. They come from a U.S. Senator, Chuck Grassley, who happens to be a Republican.Lawmakers Question CMS On Medicare Reimbursements To Texas...

• Undiagnosed Pneumonia In The ER

  Bob Carroll | February 08, 2007 6:24 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A failure to diagnose and treat pneumonia caused a softball-sized hole in a lung and the death of a Rhode Island woman.The ER doctor missed the signs of bacterial infection and sent the patient home without any treatment.Family awarded $21.5 million in malpractice casePROVIDENCE -- A jury on Tuesday awarded $21.5 million to the family of a Newport woman, concluding that the 34-year-old mother of...

• Dirty Hands In Hospitals Spread Infections

  Bob Carroll | February 07, 2007 10:00 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The hidden camera was used in Canada, but the dirty hands it recorded may explain why we have so many hospital infections in the United States. Camera captures lack of hygiene in hospitalsA hidden camera investigation by CBC News: Marketplace shows why many people get sicker in hospital.Up to 250,000 Canadians end up with an infection from a hospital stay every year, and the infections kill...

• This DNR Case Would Not Be For Me

  Bob Carroll | January 29, 2007 7:15 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There are some lawsuits I would not file. It would not always be a lack of legal support. Sometimes it would be my personal belief the lawsuit would not be in the best interests of the clients or society. When I read this article at Amednews.com I added one more case to my DNF (Do Not File) list. Lawsuit showcases DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) liability twist for doctorsMedical and legal experts...