Medical Malpractice

• Detecting Breast Cancer

  Dan Frith | December 12, 2007 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  We all know how important it is to detect breast cancer early before it metastasizes into surrounding tissue. Frankly put, the earlier the diagnosis ...the earlier the treatment...the greater the likelihood of a good outcome! One tool used by doctors to make that early diagnosis is the mammogram. The scary part of the story is how frequently doctors (radiologists) misread this diagnostic...

• Preventing preventable infections

  Donald Caminiti | December 12, 2007 11:52 AM | 0 CommentsBergen County, NJ

  Drug-resistant infections are headline news lately, especially the illnesses and deaths caused by tough and evolving bPreventing MRSA Infections and Deaths Becomes Bigger Priority The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) came right out and said it: MRSA infections, primarily those related to health care, are a "major public health problem." Upfront in its report in the...

• More on Nevada's Mental Health Funding Problems

  Steve Klearman | December 12, 2007 9:36 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  According to a Reno Gazette Journal Article dated November 30, 2007, the new Reno triage center may have its budget cut after Governor Jim Gibbons ordered state agencies to submit lists for an 8% budget cut this month. This cut was an increase from an original 5% cut due to declining sales and gaming tax revenues.The triage center is a center to help homeless people with mental health or...

• More Lawsuits Filed Against St. Francis Hospital For Failing Protect Patients From Sexual Abuse By Dr. Reardon

  James Sabatini | December 11, 2007 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  In the latest lawsuit filed against St. Francis Hospital, the victims allege that the doctor accused of sexually abusing his child patients used a gun to threaten the children and raped some of the victims. The lawsuits accuse St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford of failing to protect them from Dr. George Reardon. He was a chief of endocrinology at the hospital and practiced...

• More Lawsuits Filed Against St. Francis Hospital For Failing To Protect Patients From Sexual Abuse By Dr. Reardon

  James Sabatini | December 11, 2007 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsHartford, CT

  In the latest lawsuit filed against St. Francis Hospital, the victims alllege that the doctor accused of sexually abusing his child patients used a gun to threaten the children and raped some of the victims. The lawsuits accuse St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford of failing to protect them from Dr. George Reardon. He was a chief of endocrinology at the hospital and practiced...

• Survivor Raises Awareness of Hospital-Acquired Infections, California Malpractice Laws

  Walton Barber, LLP | December 11, 2007 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA

  Alicia Cole entered a Los Angeles area hospital to have fibroids removed, a relatively simple procedure. What was supposed to be a one-day stay in the hospital, turned into a five-month fight for survival after she acquired a hosptial-born necrotizing fasciitis, the flesh-eating bacteria.Like thousands of other patients in American hospitals, Ms. Cole became a victim of the saddest of all...

• Should Physicians be Owners of Surgical Centers?

  Karen Gatlin | December 11, 2007 10:53 AM | 0 CommentsBergen County, NJ

  The Bergen County Superior Court of New Jersey has ruled that physicians who own surgical centers violate the Codey Act, a law which prohibits referral of patients to facilities that a physician owns. Ambulatory Care Centers and free standing surgical centers have proliferated in New Jersey, and physicians argue that such centers provide inexpensive alternatives to hospitalization; however,...

• Medical Malpractice Truths

  Joe Stanley | December 11, 2007 10:10 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern New York, NY

  The facts about medical malpractice need to be told. Most of the information that people believe are myths generated by the health care industry. The facts are astounding. Currently, attorneys and patients have no way of knowing who these bad doctors are because the National Practitioner Data Base's public use file conceals practitioners' personal information. Public Citizen urged Congress to...

• Medical Malpractice More Truths

  Joe Stanley | December 11, 2007 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsSyracuse, NY

  The facts about medical malpractice need to be told. Most of the information that people believe are myths generated by the health care industry. The facts are astounding. Currently, attorneys and patients have no way of knowing who these bad doctors are because the National Practitioner Data Base's public use file conceals practitioners' personal information. Public Citizen urged Congress to...

• Crucial Medical Tests Delayed

  Steve Klearman | December 11, 2007 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Thousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive substance used in those examinations -- all because of the shutdown of one nuclear reactor in Canada. According to Associated Press writers Charmaine Noronha and Stephanie Nano, the substance is used in at least 15 million medical scans a year in the United States, by one estimate. Those scans...