Posts tagged negligence

• NJ dentist under investigation after second child dies during dental work

  Paul Napoli | February 17, 2012 2:33 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A dentist on probation for the death of a child during dental care is facing investigation after a second child has died. Dr. Patrick Bamgboye, a 64-year-old dentist with Dental Health...

• "Formal silverware" and the State of New York's duty to its psychiatric patients

  Edward Nitkewicz | September 13, 2011 10:32 AM | 0 CommentsLong Island, NY Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In what a Court of Claims Judge ruled a specious defense claim, the State of New York argued that its duty to account for knives in its psychiatric hospitals should extend to silverware and not...

• Hospitals and "the Fear of Flying"

  Edward Nitkewicz | August 11, 2011 6:47 PM | 2 CommentsLong Island, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Aerophobia is the fear of flying and ultimately, of dying in an airplane crash. Last month, the World Health Organization announced that going into hospital is far risker than flying. Millions of...

• 5-Year-Old Girl Dies from Local Anesthesia Overdose at Urgent Care Clinic

  Paul Napoli | August 02, 2011 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  August 2, 2011 A coroner has found that an overdose of anesthesia caused the death little girl at an Atlanta area urgent care clinic. ABC News reports that the parents of 5-year-old Kensley Kirby...

• Brooklyn Hospital Exposed Babies to Unnecessary Radiation

  Paul Napoli | March 01, 2011 1:57 AM | 2 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  February 28, 2011 Technicians at a New York hospital improperly X-rayed premature babies, exposing their whole bodies to dangerous radiation, reports The New York Times. The radiology department...

• Plastic Surgery Organizations Tell Doctors to Downplay Risks of Breast Implant Related Cancer

  Paul Napoli | February 20, 2011 10:36 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  February 20, 2011 Two leading plastic surgery organizations have decided to call a cancer related to breast implants a “condition” instead of cancer, tumor or malignancy and tell...

• Unheard and Ignored Hospital Patient Alarms Lead to Unnecessary Deaths

  Paul Napoli | February 20, 2011 12:17 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  February 18, 2011 A news investigation has found that hundreds of patients have died in hospitals when the alarm on their monitoring equipment went unheard or unheeded. Hospitals use a number of...

• Sleep Deprived Surgeons Put Patients at Risk and Should Disclose Their Sleepy Condition

  Paul Napoli | December 29, 2010 10:16 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  December 29. 2010 In a commentary published today in a medical journal, physicians urge surgeons to disclose a lack of sleep to patients before elective surgical procedures because it may increase...

• FDA cites Operator Error as Cause of 385 CT Scan Radiation Overdoses

  Paul Napoli | November 10, 2010 1:26 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  November 9, 2010 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced after a yearlong investigation, that 385 cases of radiation overdoses during computed tomography (CT) brain perfusion...

• Man suffers Hundreds of Ant Stings while in Hospital ICU

  Paul Napoli | October 31, 2010 1:43 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  October 29, 2010 An elderly man suffered hundreds of ant stings while in the Intensive Care Unit of a Florida hospital, reports WINK News. The incident occurred as Cornelius Lewis, 76, laid in...