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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Working To Reverse The Increase of Deadly Medical Errors

Posted on October 09, 2010
Newsweek recently compiled an extended story that analyzes the growing problem of mistakes made by medical professionals that ultimately lead to severe harm to the unfortunate patients in their care. The news magazine refers to a previous study that explained how almost 100,000 patients in American hospitals die each year from preventable medical errors...

Illinois Regulators Provide Little Oversight Of Problematic Doctors

Posted on October 08, 2010
The Chicago Tribune published a new story that reports on the troubling standards state regulators use to ensure doctors do not abuse patients. In particular, the newspaper noted the meager oversight and slow investigations that plague the state department?s ability to monitor allegations of sexual misconduct by abusive doctors...

Doctor With Repeated Wrongful Death Suits Allowed to Continue Practice

Posted on October 07, 2010
Our Chicago medical malpractice lawyers at Levin & Perconti work each day to help the victims of medical errors. We are confident that our work helps ensure that the legal rights of victims are honored and also plays a role in guaranteeing that future medical patients are less likely to be harmed by negligent physicians...

Claims Filed Following Medical Fraud By Heart Doctor

Posted on October 06, 2010
In August on this blog we discussed the egregious case of medical fraud and abuse of Dr. Mark G. Midei. The doctor, a former star cardiologist at the St. Joseph Medical Center, was found to have performed hundreds of heart procedures unnecessarily. Medical records were falsified to make it appear that patients had clogged arteries when they did not...

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Child Dies Following Medication Error

Posted on October 05, 2010
The Seattle PI reported this week and a tragic medical mistake that took the life of a young infant at a local Children?s Hospital. On September 17th a young infant girl was being transported in the hospital in preparation for a transplant. However, for reasons that staff members still claim not to understand, a hospital employee administered a drug to the infant without doctor permission...

Medication Shortages Hitting Crisis Level

Posted on October 04, 2010
News Oklahoma recently discussed a severe medical care problem that has not received as much attention as it deserves?the shortage of critical medications at many hospitals. Unknown to most of the public, many hospital are suffering through the worst shortage of critical drugs in many years...

Hospitals Showing Increasing Risk of Deadly Infections

Posted on October 03, 2010
CBS Evening News reported last week on the rise of a frightening new medical threat that is affecting a rising number of patients all across the country. Medical professionals have identified a new class of infection that patients are getting once they are at hospitals for other reasons...

Illinois Justice Defends Ruling Protecting Rights of Patient Victim Rights

Posted on October 02, 2010
Illinois Supreme Court Justice Thomas Kilbride has been under fire lately for a vote that he cast in a recent high profile state case. The decision revolved around a challenge to the 2005 state law that placed a cap on the amount of damages that could be received by a victim of medical malpractice...

Medical Education Council Approves Shorter Doctor Hours

Posted on October 01, 2010
Much recent discussion has involved the risks that new doctors, known as ?residents,? pose to the patients in their care. Recent research has shown that medical errors increase when these doctors-in-training begin working at hospitals for the first time...

Most Medical Errors Go Unreported

Posted on September 30, 2010
Many of our posts to this blog involve highlighting examples of medical malpractice. In that way we hope to raise awareness of the types of errors that occur, the prevalence of the problem, and the ways in which victims are able to seek redress for their suffering...

Doctors Using Medical Malpractice Claims to Help Avoid Future Mistakes

Posted on September 29, 2010
The Wall Street Journal wrote this week about the encouraging way that many doctors are using medical malpractice claims to understand their previous mistakes and learn from them. Medical professionals are increasingly examining the lawsuits that are filed alleging improper care in order to understand the ways in which the mistakes are frequently made...

Two New Publications Supporting Patients' Rights

Posted on September 28, 2010
All those interested in keeping abreast of developments in the areas of patients? legal rights and medical malpractice now have even more options. The Center for Justice and Democracy announced early last week on the release of two new publications in the area...

Hospital Calls Wrong Family Following Tragic Death

Posted on September 27, 2010
A bizarre hospital mistake caused the suffering of two different families following a tragic death last weekend. The Modesto Bee reported on the mix-up caused by the Emanuel Medical Center. Last week, Shawn Barlow a 40-year old deputy district attorney died from cardiac arrest in his home...

Negligent Hospital Exposes Patients to Hepatitis C

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Miami Herald reported on troubling news out of the local Mayo Clinic. Late last week the hospital began alerting patients of a terrible medical breach that may have exposed them to a deadly virus. More than 4500 patients at the clinic may have been exposed to Hepatitis C following the abusive practice of a radiology technologist at the facility...

Doctors Often Make Mistake Of Overprescribing Antibiotics

Posted on September 25, 2010
Softpedia News published a story last week regarding a troubling medical mistake that doctors often commit?prescribing antibiotics to patients who have viral infections. The news story refers to the findings of a recent medical study in an issue of the Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology...

Study Confirms That New Doctors Commit More Medication Errors

Posted on September 24, 2010
We have posted several stories over the summer involving the increase in medical errors related to new residents entering hospitals across the country. New residents, or doctors-in-training, begin their first shift at the beginning of July each year...

Children Sexually Abused At Chicago Psychiatric Hospitals

Posted on September 23, 2010
The Chicago Tribune ran a story yesterday on a tragic problem plaguing many of the city?s most prominent mental health facilities. The newspaper has identified 18 cases of reported rape and sexual assault at these facilities in the last two years alone, and this is after state officials had vowed to curb the problem...

Broken Hospital Bed Leads to Unique Challenge to Malpractice Cap Law

Posted on September 22, 2010
The Texas Tribune is reporting on an unfolding legal story that highlights the unique ways in which hospitals make errors and puts the unfairness of medical malpractice caps in a new light. The situation arose following an event that occurred at St. Luke?s Episcopal Hospital several years ago...

Missed Diagnosis?A Common Medical Mistake

Posted on September 21, 2010
The San Francisco Chronicle posted a story yesterday on the all too common errors that hospitals make when attempting to diagnose deadly medical problems. It was explained how sometimes a patient does not receive a misdiagnosis?told the wrong thing?but instead a missed diagnosis?told nothing at all...

Changes Needed in Medical Tubes to Reduce Patient Risk

Posted on September 20, 2010
A renewed effort is being made to push through some changes that may ultimately eliminate thousands of medical mistakes and save hundreds of lives, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. We have reported on this blog about the frequency of mistakes made with medication tubing...

Doctors Share Stories of Fatal Medical Mistakes

Posted on September 19, 2010
Reader?s Digest published a story recently that attempted to put a human face on the medical errors that destroy families as well as medical careers. The publication recently asked doctors to discuss errors that they have made, describing how the error affected them and their future as hospital professionals...

Medical Mistakes Continue to Affect Patients Across the Country

Posted on September 19, 2010
With healthcare reform becoming the major legislative issue of the last year, it is surprising that more discussion has taken place regarding the prevention of medical errors that affect countless innocent patients each year. The Times Union noticed the surprisingly inadequate steps taken to tackle the problem...

Hospital Mistakenly Circumcises Newborn Boy

Posted on September 17, 2010
A new lawsuit was filed yesterday after an egregious medical mistake put a newborn son under the knife against the express wishes of the baby?s mother. According the to Miami Herald, Vera Delgado was shocked and disgusted when she learned that her 8 day old son was circumcised without her consent and against her express wishes told to doctors...

Doctor Spends Life Exposing Underperforming Hospitals

Posted on September 16, 2010
Forbes recently profiled an amazing doctor who has spent his career working to improve medical care across the country. For two decades Dr. Harlan Kumholz has sought to measure the real- world effect of hospital care to better understand what parts of medical service are being ignored, what parts are working, and the processes that fail...

Majority of Doctors Admit Working While They Are Sick Themselves

Posted on September 15, 2010
It is imperative for all hospital professionals to keep a close eye on germ control in the facility. We have often discussed preventable hospital sicknesses that many patients get after they arrive at the hospital to receive treatment for some other ailment...

Judge Becomes Advocates For Patients After Sponge Left Following Surgery

Posted on September 14, 2010
Judge Nelson Bailey has presided over many trials in his ten years on the county bench?including those involving obvious acts of negligence. Much to his own disgust, he recently became a personal victim of one of these errors following medical mistakes during a surgery...

Review of Medical Mistakes Reveals High Cost of Errors

Posted on September 13, 2010
The Green Bay Press Gazette published an editorial this weekend concerning the high cost of medical mistakes on local residents, their friends, and family. After a review of hospital inspection records, reporters discovered that most area hospitals did a good job of keeping patients safe and attempting to save lives whenever patients needed emergency care...

Florida Example Illustrates Problem With Medical Malpractice Caps

Posted on September 13, 2010
Medical malpractice caps are a common talking point these days as candidates for public office tout their position on the issue. We have often reiterated the belief of our Chicago medical malpractice attorneys at Levin & Perconti that the caps do nothing more than arbitrarily take away rights of victimized medical patients...

Hospital Worker Submits Fake Mammogram Results

Posted on September 11, 2010
Proper preventative testing is an important part of detecting health problems early enough to provide life-saving treatment. It is for that reason that there has been a recent push to encourage everyone to receive yearly tests for particularly common ailments...

Medical Malpractice Reform Not The Answer To Rising Healthcare Costs

Posted on September 10, 2010
Representative Michael Burgess, the Republican chairman of the Congressional Healthcare Caucus admitted to The Hill this week that attempting to limit medical malpractice awards for victims will not save the nation much on healthcare costs. This is an important concession from an advocate that has previously called for new laws which would infringe of the rights of patients who suffer at the hands of medical mistakes...

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