Posts tagged error

• How Much Experience Does Your Doctor Have? Fatal Medical Errors Spike As New Doctors Start Treating

  Brett Emison | June 13, 2010 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Do you realize that somewhere in the world there exists a person who qualifies as the worst doctor? If you took the time, by process of elimination you could actually determine the worst doctor in...

• Only 20% of Medical Mistakes are Reported Per U.S. Dept of Health

  Lindsay Rakers | January 19, 2012 4:13 PM | 20 CommentsSt. Louis, MO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Most doctors and nurses (and other medical professionals) are trustworthy, honest, and good at their jobs. I personally love and completely trust all of my doctors and the doctors and medical...

• Do You Know Who Is Filling Your Prescriptions?

  Brett Emison | March 25, 2010 6:27 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Earlier this month a Florida appeals court upheld a $33.3 million verdict against Walgreen's on behalf of the family of Beth Hippely, represented by IB member Chris Searcy. Mrs. Hippely died in 2007...

• Pilot Error; Poor Training Blamed In Colgan Air Flight 3407 Crash

  Brett Emison | February 05, 2010 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The NTSB has issued its findings about what caused Colgan Air Flight 3407 to crash a year ago outside Buffalo, New York. Several sources, including this one, have reported on the NTSB's findings,...

• Legal & Safety News Round Up: June 21, 2011

  Brett Emison | June 21, 2011 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Legal and safety related news from around the internet: More younger people are suffering strokes [Irene Maher at St. Petersburg Times via NBC Action News in KC] [Related: Popular birth control...

• Did You Know... A Doctor Was Fired For Trying To Improve Patient Care?

  Brett Emison | January 24, 2011 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  This ABC News report asserts that a Milwaukee-based cardiologist, Dr. Kiran Sagar, was terminated after the results of her study on the misreading of diagnostic echocardiograms were presented at a...

• Railroad Crossing Signal Malfunctions Worry Town Officials

  Brett Emison | November 10, 2009 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  New Jersey news sources are reporting railroad crossing signal glitches that have officials worried. Police confirmed that the railroad crossing warning problems have been around for...