Medical Malpractice

• Napping Your Way To Good Health

  Bob Carroll | February 13, 2007 6:20 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Pardon me while I doze off for awhile.Regular Midday Snoozes Tied to a Healthier Heart Taking a nap after lunch may be good for your heart. This splendid news arrived in the form of a study published Monday in The Archives of Internal Medicine. In a study of more than 23,000 Greek men and women ages 20 to 86, researchers found that napping at least three times a week for a half-hour was...

• Failure to Diagnose on Time

  Ken Margolin | February 12, 2007 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA

  Doctors who are named defendants in medical malpractice cases based on failure to make timely diagnoses, often complain that the plaintiff's lawyer had the benefit of hindsight that they lacked. A review of cases of late diagnosis, however, shows that the real culprit was often a lack of curiosity by the physician. The best doctors are medical detectives and like the best detectives, they will...

• Federal Malpractice Award Cap Legislation

  Christina Cole | February 11, 2007 9:11 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA

  The Medical Care Access Protection (MCAP) Act of 2007 has been recently been introduced. The Act would set a cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits."Medical liability reform works, and it's turning the tide against frivolous lawsuits and outrageous jury awards," said Ensign, who is a veterinarian. "We've seen it in California, in Texas and in my home state of Nevada, where...

• Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled for 1.2M

  Christina Cole | February 09, 2007 10:47 PM | 0 CommentsGalveston Bay, TX

  A Texas woman has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against Belvidere Bariatric Clinic to the tune of $1.2 million. The claimant alleged negligence by the clinic led to her husband's death. On Tuesday she agreed to a settlement of 1.2 million with the Bariatric Treatment Center, Northwest Suburban Community Hospital and the surgeon involved.Another doctor, a defendant included in the case,...

• $3,325,000 wrongful death verdict to be reduced.

  Ben Glass | February 09, 2007 2:56 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A recent medical malpractice case tried in Fairfax County showed once again how devastating Virginia's medical malpractice cap can be to families.A 3‑year‑old child developed neurological signs demonstrating an error of metabolism resulting in increased ammonia levels in the blood and brain. The child and her family presented to Inova Fairfax Hospital where allegedly the standard of care...

• Caps don't Work

  Jeremy Thurman | February 09, 2007 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Now, to discussing caps I submit the following which is more of those darn facts and empirical evidence that keeps just getting in the way of people such as our Republican leader in the Senate and frankly Oklahoma state republican party:Physicians say caps on non-economic damages will lower malpractice premiums. The two largest insurers of doctors in the country stated before Congress and state...

• Medical Malpractice Means Negligence

  Rob Curtiss | February 08, 2007 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsNew Hampshire, NH

  Many people think that a doctor only commits malpractice if he or she is reckless or deliberately inattentive in their treatment of a patient. Actually malpractice simply means negligence, it is the medical equivalent of failing to stop at a stop sign and causing an accident. Just as drivers have a duty to be reasonably careful when driving, doctors have a duty to be reasonably careful when...

• Doctor's crusade against hospital errors

  Jeremy Thurman | February 08, 2007 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  I just read an article on CBS news regarding hospital safety and about a brave Doctor Berwick who runs the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/06/eveningnews/main2440767.shtmlPer the article, he is essentially trying to make hospitals safer for patients. In this article, Berwick estimates that for every 100 patients admitted to hospitals, there are 40...

• Undiagnosed Pneumonia In The ER

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

  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...

• Patient Wins $16M Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | February 08, 2007 4:21 AM | 0 CommentsDetroit, MI

  A woman was awarded $16 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a University of Miami doctor that performed brain surgery to remove a benign tumor in December. The surgeon prescribed anti-seizure meds for her after having a tumor removed from her brain, said her lawyer. However, she suffered a seizure after being released from the hospital which left her brain damaged."The doctor is...