Posts tagged medical malpractice

• 30 Preventable Medical Mistakes

  Ed Normand | September 23, 2008 11:07 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  30 common but preventable medical mistakes: 1. Prescribing the wrong dosage of medication 2. Prescribing the wrong medication 3. Providing medications not prescribed 4. ...

• Want Lower Health Insurance? Prevent Surgical Errors.

  Ed Normand | September 18, 2008 9:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Eliminating medical malpractice would result in savings of billions of dollars each year. The annual cost of medical errors in additional medical expenses to fix the injuries caused by malpractice...

• The Cost To Society of Rampant Medical Malpractice

  Ed Normand | August 07, 2008 5:36 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Every year there is a study called the Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. The name speaks for itself. Sadly every year for the 5 years it has been in existence shows shocking amounts of...

• Pro Bono Hours On The Decline In Florida

  Eddie Farah | May 03, 2008 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Are Florida’s lawyers spending less time helping those who cannot afford to pay? The Florida Bar, reports that the number of hours Florida lawyers donate to the poor every year is on the decline,...

• Surgeon Removes Wrong Kidney

  Diego Madrigal | March 21, 2008 5:46 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Thankfully for the sick in Minnesota, a surgeon will stop seeing patients after he removed the wrong kidney from a patient. In doing so, the surgeon left a cancerous kidney inside the patient. The surgery was done last Tuesday, but only on Wednesday was it discovered what had happened. To prevent something like this from happening again, the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital said that...

• Woman Sues Naval Hospital For Amputation

  Eddie Farah | March 17, 2008 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  June McDowell was supposed to be going in for knee replacement surgery. Instead something went terribly wrong during her 2005 surgery at the Naval Hospital Jacksonville. Now McDowell is suing.McDowell told Channel 4 the last two years have been a nightmare. She is wheelchair bound and cannot be fitted for a prosthetic device."I have a bed that I lay in, you know. I just can't do anything. I...

• Medical Malpractice Patients' Right To Know

  Ed Normand | March 06, 2008 5:54 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a decision just released earlier today the Florida Supreme Court ruled on the scope of the 2004 Florida Constitutional Amendment 7, entitled the "Patients Right to Know" Act. In a ruling that is welcome to consumers and patients who are concerned about the safety of their families when choosing a hospital, our State Supreme Court held in rulings on cases called Florida Hospital Waterman,...

• Missouri Seeks to Increase Liability for Abortion Malpractice

  Ed Normand | February 15, 2008 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Proposed legislation in Missouri increase the liability caps in medical malpractice cases for cases of abortion malpractice. . Under the present medical malpractice caps in Missouri, pain and suffering damage awards are capped at $350,000. The new law would make the caps invalid in claims of abortion related medical malpractice. Obviously this will be a hot topic and highly debated between...

• John Ritter Estate Medical Malpractice Trial

  Ed Normand | February 14, 2008 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Actor John Ritter, best known from his days in the sitcom "Three's Company", died in 2003 at age 54 from a tear in the aorta, at a hospital in Burbank, California. Subsequent investigation by his family led them to conclude that the aorta tear was not treated correctly and, in fact, was misdiagnosed as a heart attack. The Ritter Estate, on behalf of his surviving relatives is now suing his...

• Unretrieved Surgical Medical Device Notice from FDA

  Sandy Grinnell | January 25, 2008 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This week the FDA issued a Public Health Notification to the healthcare community which to a lay person would seem to be pretty obvious. The Notice begins: Dear Healthcare Practitioner:This is to advise you of serious adverse events associated with unretrieved device fragments (UDFs) and provide recommendations to mitigate these events. A UDF is a fragment of a medical device that has separated...