Posts tagged medical negligence

• Where to Go with Questions or Complaints about your Doctor

  Mike Ferrara | February 23, 2010 8:57 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  So you’ve heard through the grapevine that disciplinary action has been taken against your doctor. How can you learn the outcome? What if you want to file a complaint against a doctor? How...

• Doctor Removed Baby’s Bladder by Mistake; Thought it was a Hernia

  Mike Ferrara | February 22, 2010 3:47 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A pediatrician in Manchester, England accidentally removed 90% of a baby girl’s bladder after mistaking it for a hernia during what should have been a routine surgery. ...

• When Medical Errors Meet Radiation Treatments

  Camryn Hansen | January 29, 2010 9:09 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Earlier this week, The New York Times published an article that exemplifies the pressing, life-and-death need for more and stronger patient safety measures. It details the story of...

• Penile Cancer Medical Negligence Case Goes to the Supreme Court

  Mike Ferrara | January 27, 2010 9:04 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 2 in the case of Francisco Castaneda, an immigrant from El Salvador who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

• Patient Safety Depends on Communication & Coordination – Why Are We So Bad at This?

  Mike Ferrara | January 24, 2010 7:34 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The recent 2009 Hospital Performance Report conducted by the New Jersey Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), which grades each hospital on the state on the quality of its...

• 63 Surgical Instruments Sewn Up Inside New Jersey Hospital Patients

  Mike Ferrara | January 21, 2010 8:59 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Though different people use the word quality to mean very different things when referring to health care (cutting edge technology, no waiting, individualized treatment, extensive choices,...

• 9,400 Serious Medical Errors in New Jersey - When Will Congress Focus on This?

  Mike Ferrara | January 11, 2010 8:43 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The NJ Department of Health and Senior Services recently reported that in 2007, hospital doctors, nurses and other medical workers committed nearly 9,400 serious medical errors'' that...

• Uninsured Trauma Patients Almost Twice as Likely to Die – We Need a System that Works

  Camryn Hansen | November 18, 2009 9:56 PM | 1 CommentCherry Hill, NJ Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Legally, it’s not supposed to matter whether emergency room patients have insurance or not. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, passed by Congress in 1986,...

• Myth #5: Tort reform will lower insurance rates.

  Mike Ferrara | November 16, 2009 8:13 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The campaign to slip widespread tort reforms into America’s health care bill is gaining momentum it doesn’t deserve because people are blithely accepting its exaggerations,...

• Myth #4: Malpractice Claims Drive up Doctors’ Premiums.

  Mike Ferrara | November 14, 2009 6:31 PM | 2 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The campaign to slip widespread tort reforms into America’s health care bill is gaining momentum it doesn’t deserve because people are blithely accepting its exaggerations,...