Posts tagged medical error

• Tripler Army Medical Center Settles With Navy Family for $11 Million Over Botched Delivery

  David Mittleman | September 29, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  4-year-old Kayla Mae McCraw will never walk, talk, or go to the bathroom on her own because of several egregious medical errors that occured during her labor and delivery at Tripler Army Medical...

• 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...

• 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...

• 200,000 Patients a Year Die from Medical Mistakes and Preventable Infections

  David Mittleman | August 17, 2009 12:36 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a recent investigation conducted by the Hearst Corporation, an estimated 98,000 people die each year from preventable medical errors. In fact, more Americans die each month from...

• 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...

• 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...

• Dead By Mistake

  Mark Bello | April 04, 2011 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Patient safety remains a pressing problem across the country. When you go to the hospital, your goal is to get better - not worse, right? Then, why are thousands of patients at risk every day due to...

• Death By Medical Mistake: Put "Teeth" Into Reporting Requirements

  Mark Bello | September 29, 2010 1:54 PM | 0 CommentsFarmington Hills, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As a result of nursing errors including a misadministration of pain medication, a simple arthroscopic shoulder surgery left one man brain dead. Two days later, the family made the decision to take...

• Tort Reform Not a Panacea for Decreasing Health Care Costs

  David Mittleman | August 22, 2009 9:37 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  So far critics have mostly focused on tearing apart health care reform by portraying it as “socialist” or as a “Nazi” agenda with a federal government “death...