Posts tagged medical error

• Tort Reform Doesn't Amount to Large Healthcare Savings

  David Mittleman | March 16, 2012 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Despite tort reformers' arguments to the contrary, tort reform does not equate to large healthcare savings. According to a white paper released by the Center for Progressive Reform, the costs...

• Government Report Finds 86% of Medical Errors Aren't Reported

  David Mittleman | January 12, 2012 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a stunning 86% of medical errors aren't reported in databases of the incident reporting system. This system...

• Too Many Americans Harmed By Care Intended To Help Them

  David Mittleman | October 09, 2011 10:38 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It's very simple compared to the other technology in the cardiac intensive care unit at Atlanta's Egleston Children's Hospital--a quiet zone for hospital staff to fill prescriptions without...

• Patient Dies After Hospital Replaces Nurses on Strike

  David Mittleman | September 26, 2011 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  California officials are investigating claims that a patient died at a Oakland hospital after receiving an allegedly non-prescribed dosage of a drug during a nursing strike. That patient had been...

• Medical Errors Still on the Rise. Take Action by Supporting “People over Profits”

  Mark Bello | September 20, 2011 2:29 PM | 2 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  What do twelve California hospitals have in common? All have been fined for preventable medical errors that injured or killed patients. Alameda Hospital in Alameda. In 2009, seven patients were...

• Doctors Still Fear Medical Malpractice Claims Despite Low Rate of Actual Payout

  David Mittleman | August 19, 2011 10:00 AM | 4 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As a trial lawyer, you probably expect that I look at things in a pretty black-and-white manner when it comes to medical malpractice. I'm fully aware of the stereotypes out there about the ambulance...

• Reducing Deadly Gaps in Communication Will Reduce Medical Malpractice

  Mark Bello | August 04, 2011 1:00 PM | 1 CommentFarmington Hills, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I just read a story written by Dr. Madeline Biondolillo and published in the Boston Globe. Dr. Biondolillo wrote about her mother's ordeal after suffering a heart attack. Despite several...

• Medical Malpractice: Wrong-Site Surgeries Hit an Astonishing Average of 40 Times Per Week

  Mark Bello | June 23, 2011 9:31 AM | 2 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  An article in the Washington Post reported, Based on state data, Joint Commission officials estimate that wrong-site surgery occurs 40 times a week in US hospitals and clinics. Mistakes such as...

• Preventable Medical Errors: What Do They Cost?

  David Mittleman | June 02, 2011 10:54 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  There are certain types of medical malpractice that are considered to be so egregious that they should never happen. In fact, Medicare calls these preventable errors “Never Events,” and...

• Partnering For Patient Safety

  Mark Bello | April 14, 2011 12:43 PM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Americans go the hospital to get well, and most doctors, nurses and other health care providers work hard to deliver the best care possible, but there are still an alarming number of patients who...