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Medical Error or Medical Malpractice? On May 28, 2021, Newsweek published a sad story about Jeannette Shields, who needlessly died in a hospital after being dropped. Jeannette was seventy years old. She was a wife, moth...
read moreIf you have ever survived a huge RIF (reduction in force) at your company you know what comes next. The surviving employees must pick up the slack and do extra work. Your company is now understaffed. Subsequently, jobs c...
read moreFacts A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary injunction today to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research because it destroys embryos, which violates the Dickey-Wicker Amendment (“DWA”) included in ...
read moreLet’s start with the presumption that someone was wronged, they rightfully want to exercise their legal rights, and you have been retained to protect their rights. Let’s even presume, as hard as it might be, that you...
read moreTake care of your heart, and your heart will take care of you. A piece by Bill Gifford in Men's Health discusses How Your Heart Can Break. As the 17th-century British physician William Harvey noted, "Every affection ...
read moreThere is an epidemic that is killing almost half-a-million Americas and injuring millions of others every year. This epidemic is as bad as the top two killers of Americans, cancer and heart disease (each claiming over 5...
read morePrescription Opioids and Opioid Malpractice The use of pain medication in the U.S. is alarming–doctors write 71 opioid prescriptions per 100 people. In 2015, drug overdoses accounted for 52,404 deaths in the United ...
read moreThe U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would victimize medical malpractice victims and protect the health care providers who injured them. If there is a silver lining in all this, it might be that H.R. 1215...
read morePeople hear about medical malpractice trials where a jury awarded large sums of money, like this Arizona family. Some of these cases are sensationalized, and the reports tend to focus on the facts of the case. As they sh...
read morePeople need to be aware that medical malpractice lawsuits are not the problem with our health care system. The problem is careless doctors and the system that protects them. Prior posts have touched on different aspe...
read moreUnderstand medical malpractice cases by looking at the facts. This will be my first post that looks at potential explanations for preventable errors. I say potential explanations because rarely, if ever, do we know why...
read moreMedical malpractice case review features various causes of malpractice. Operating on the wrong extremity. Leaving a piece of equipment inside a patient after surgery. Failing to diagnose an illness. These are among the m...
read moreUnderstand medical malpractice cases by looking at the facts. Case Review A 65-year-old woman presented to her PCP with nausea, fever, and a dark area in the visual field of her right eye. The PCP performed a physical ...
read moreMedical negligence, also called medical malpractice, is an epidemic in the U.S. Preventable medical errors kill more than 400,000 people per year. That means, every day, 1,100 people have their lives cut short by med...
read moreA 33-year-old Arizona woman was told by a paramedic working for the Phoenix Fire Department she was experiencing a panic attack after struggling to breathe and losing consciousness twice. The condition of the woman worse...
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