Regional updates in category: Medical Malpractice

This week the Board of Pharmacy of the Florida Department of Health fined pharmacist Edna Irizarry $1000 and required her to attend an 8 hour continuing education course for her role in causing the...

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Our office has seen a number of recent cases involving serious injuries received as the result of chiropractic treatment. These involve stroke, paralysis of a lung and acute disc herniation. Let me...

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Join Steve Lombardi today as he discusses how juries are failing to do their job, and are encouraging bad medicine by excusing unauthorized surgeries. Handing out participation trophies is just one more mixed message that condones irresponsible behavior, by either our children or a few medical doctors and in the end fails to protect patients.

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No less prestigious a group than the Harvard Medical Practice Study Group, in an article entitled "Doctors and Lawyers: Medical Injury, Malpractice Litigation and Patient Compensation in New York",...

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Join Steve today as he briefly detours to explore the "why's" we are talking about the wrong-site surgery. It’s all about the bigger picture, which few seem to see. And as a bonus watch the medical student video tape as the speaker admits being taught that its nobodies fault when the surgeon operates on the wrong part of your body. Admitting fault is the first step to taking legal responsibility for one’s actions to protect the patient. Without it you have a system that is broken. When surgeon’s get paid to do the wrong surgery we have incentive.

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It is a lesson we try to teach children from a very young age: Everyone is a unique individual, with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, and nothing can change that. Wrong-patient procedures,...

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Over the last few days we've been looking at the three elements in the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first element is establishment of a pre-operative verification process....

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A North Florida pharmacist was fined $1,000 by the Florida State Pharmacy Board for the responsibility she had in the death of a 3 year-old boy. Edna Irizarry who processed a fatal dose of the amino...

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Hospitals around the country have come together to say they will no longer bill patients for their medical mistakes. Tennessee is one state out of 23 that has approved the non-payment policies for...

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In a blog last week, I discussed Medical Errors. I discussed operating on the wrong body part or the wrong side of the body. Below is a part of my blog: Organs can be punctured and surgeries can...

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This blog is the third installment in a series of blogs directed towards patients or attorney’s representing patients who have fallen victim to a wrong-site, wrong-procedure, or wrong-patient...

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Today, we continue looking at the standard of care for avoiding wrong-site surgeries. The first step is to establish a pre-operative verification process. The second step in the Joint Commission...

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A new study found mixing street drugs and alcohol with prescription medications has attributed to a fivefold increase in the number of deaths ascribed to medical errors since the 1980s. In 2004,...

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This is the second part of our series on wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgeries. Today we're looking at the history of the standard of care and the first element that each...

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Join Steve Lombardi today as he discusses wrong-site surgeries and how to gather and preserve evidence that may later be used in a claim. Today's topic is the surgeon and the surgeon's clinic website.

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