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Malfunctioning Medical Device Leads to Severe Injury

Posted on July 12, 2010
A West Virginia woman recently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against both her surgeon and medical device manufacturer C.R. Bard, reports The West Virginia Record. The plaintiff, Betty Adkins, underwent surgery in November 2007 to treat her pelvic organ prolapse...

Improper Radiation Treatment at VA Hospital

Posted on July 11, 2010
Two weeks ago we posted on the medical negligence at a Veteran?s Affair hospital in St. Louis that exposed veterans in several states (including Illinois) to hepatitis and HIV. That incident is only one in a string of errors at VA facilities across the country...

Victim of Medical Malpractice Pushes for State Investigation

Posted on July 10, 2010
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported yesterday on a medical malpractice victim who is taking steps to ensure that no one else falls victim to his negligent doctor?s error. In 2004, Dr. Cully White performed back surgery on Kenneth Plants. However, Dr...

Rush University Medical Center Charged with Inadequate Surgical Care

Posted on July 09, 2010
The Chicago Tribune reports on a newly unsealed lawsuit which describes how medical professionals at the orthopedic department at Rush University Medical Center routinely sacrificed patient safety while violating Medicare billing rules. The suit alleges that several medical doctors at Rush overbooked surgical procedures (sometimes several at the same time), allowing medical residents to perform the operations while unsupervised...

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Lasik Eye Surgeon Guilty of Medical Malpractice

Posted on July 08, 2010
ABC Denver recently reported on a medical malpractice verdict issued against Dr. Paul Cutarelli. Dr. Cutarelli performed Lasik eye surgeries on patients in several states. With the vision correction surgery becoming more popular, Dr. Cutarelli?s business began to boom...

Chicago Resident is Victim of Medical Malpractice

Posted on July 07, 2010
A Chicago man is suing a St. Petersburg surgeon for medical malpractice after the death of his wife following emergency surgery last summer, reports the St. Petersburg Times. Dr. Sukunya Susie Dunphy was a 42 year old medical doctor in Chicago. While in Florida she was rushed to the hospital after experiencing abdominal pain...

$2.45 Million Awarded in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Posted on July 06, 2010
The Republic covered a recent jury verdict in a boundary challenging medical malpractice suit. Margaret Mueller sued two of her doctors who missed a cancer diagnosis. Mrs. Mueller?s doctors diagnosed her with ovarian cancer. Shortly after the diagnosis she began the long, painful treatment process...

Illinois Veterans Victims of Medical Malpractice

Posted on July 05, 2010
Fox News recently reported on a large-scale example of medical negligence that has put thousands of members of our armed forces at risk. Several weeks ago the John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis notified over 1,800 veterans who had been provided care at the facility that they may have been exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV...

Medical Malpractice Victims Struggle to Collect from Doctor

Posted on July 04, 2010
WHIO.com reported today on a Dayton doctor with 19 medical malpractice cases currently on the docket. That list is not even counting several victims who have already won verdicts or settlement against the doctor, Dr. Lawrence Rothstein. Each of the charges involve plaintiff complaints of nerve damage, pain, weakness, numbness, paralysis and incontinence following surgeries performed by Dr...

Medical Professionals May Fail to Diagnose and Treat MRSA

Posted on July 03, 2010
A highly sophisticated bacteria strain known as MRSA has long been one of the leading causes of infections in hospitals. MRSA is a form of staph infection, but it is much more dangerous to patients than the typical staph infection because MRSA cannot be treated with first-line antibiotics...

Chicago Hospital Lawsuit Settles for $7 million

Posted on July 02, 2010
The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the settlement of a medical negligence case which alleged violation of state law by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital was charged with overcrowding babies in its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), failing to comply with state law that mandates specific bed spacing and maximum capacities...

July is Deadliest Month for Medical Malpractice

Posted on July 01, 2010
The month of July is typically known as a time of fireworks, ice cream, and sandcastles on the beach. But startling new research suggests that the mid-summer month also has a more sinister reputation. The LA Times recently reported of a new study out of the University of California San Diego that July marks the riskiest time of the year seek medical care at some hospitals throughout the country...

Misread Ultrasound Leads to Wrongful Death

Posted on June 30, 2010
A trial began yesterday in a medical malpractice case alleging that a doctor?s failure to properly read an echocardiogram test lead to the heart attack death of a popular elected official in Ithaca, reports the Ithaca Journal. George Dentes was a well-liked figure in his hometown...

Report Finds Hundreds of Preventable Medical Errors Kept Hidden

Posted on June 29, 2010
A recent Las Vegas Sun investigation has found that patients in nearby hospitals suffered 969 preventable injuries caused by medical error in the last two years alone. The exhaustive and first of its kind study revealed that preventable harms, deadly infections, and neglect occurred at a rate about one a day in some hospitals...

Sisters Accused of Committing Medical Malpractice

Posted on June 28, 2010
KTLA News reports of another example of medical malpractice as two sisters are suspected of running an illegal cosmetic filler practice. The sisters, Guadalupe and Alejandra Viveros allegedly catered to a large group of clients, usually women, who sought out the pair to perform popular forms of cosmetic surgery...

Court Upholds $12 Million Award in Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on June 27, 2010
The Connecticut Supreme Court recently upheld a $12 million jury verdict in a heartbreaking medical malpractice case that had dragged on for years reports the New Haven Register. Michelle DiLieto suffered from repeated medical professional errors over a period of several years...

Verdict in Medication Error Case

Posted on June 26, 2010
Earlier this week Dr. Stephen Schneider and his wife, nurse Linda Schneider were found guilty of illegally prescribing painkillers to patients, reports Over the Line News. The verdict marks the culmination of this high profile case, where the medical error is said to have caused the death of 68 patients...

7th Circuit Lifts Stay in Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on June 25, 2010
The Courthouse News Service reports that the complicated medical malpractice saga of Dr. Mark S. Weinberger continued this week as the 7th Circuit ruled on an issue in his Chicago area medical malpractice case. Dr. Weinberger is charged with an astounding 350 claims of medical malpractice and billing fraud...

New Rules Seek to Limit Doctor Hours to Prevent Medical Error

Posted on June 24, 2010
In a step hailed by all concerned with patient rights and proper medical care, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has proposed new rules to guide work during the residency phase of doctor training. According to The Wall Street Journal, the changes are being fueled by research indicating that the current work hours and oversight methods for new doctors may be the leading cause of all preventable medical errors...

Common Hospital Methods Fail to Prevent Surgical Infections

Posted on June 23, 2010
A new study reported in The Wall Street Journal recently found that common measures used by hospitals to prevent post-surgical infection may not be as effective as often thought. Most hospitals currently use a checklist approach to ensure patient safety during surgery...

Half of Pediatricians Admit Making Incorrect Diagnosis

Posted on June 22, 2010
A new study in Business Week reports than over half of pediatricians admit to making false diagnosis, missing diagnosis, or delaying diagnosis once or twice in the past month alone. Pediatric trainees are even more susceptible to error, with over 77 percent of them making diagnostic mistakes in the last thirty days...

Failure to Diagnose Allergy Leads to Wrongful Death

Posted on June 21, 2010
The widow of a 40 year old man is suing a doctor who failed to diagnose her husband?s previous allergic reaction to bee stings, according to New Jersey News. In July of 2005 the man was rushed to the emergency room by a neighbor after collapsing and foaming at the mouth while mowing his grass...

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Swansea Doctor

Posted on June 19, 2010
According to the Madison and St. Clair County Record a woman has filed a lawsuit claiming that her physician failed to inform her of a mass on her kidney which was later diagnosed as being cancerous. Dr. Brad Ringhofer of Swansea served as the victim's primary care physician from June 9, 2006, through August 31, 2009...

Surgical Centers Fail to Prevent Hospital-borne Infections

Posted on June 15, 2010
A recent study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that ambulatory surgical centers failed to prevent hospital-borne infections in 46 of the 68 surgical centers that the study examined. Researchers reported lapses in infection control in hand hygiene, injection safety, medication and handling, equipment reprocessing, environmental cleaning, and handling of blood sugar monitoring equipment...

Case Law Update: Medical Malpractice Experts

Posted on June 14, 2010
Northern Trust Company v. Burandt and Ambrust, LLP, No. 2-08-0193 (5-26-10) found that infection-causation defense that preexisting strep bacterial infection caused infant's injuries at time of birth should have been admitted, as this defense meets the general-acceptance Frye standard...

Survival Rate Low in Long-Term Care Hospitals

Posted on June 11, 2010
Business Week reports on a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that admissions to long-term acute care hospitals are on the rise. However, 50% of patients admitted to these facilities do not live for more than a year...

Study Finds Risk for Medical Malpractice Rises in July

Posted on June 09, 2010
According to a recent report by ABC News, researchers at the University of California at San Diego have found that the rate of medication errors increase in July at teaching hospitals throughout the country. This spike coincides with the arrival of new medical residents who are just beginning their clinical training...

Couple is awarded $1.5 million in Medical Malpractice Case

Posted on June 07, 2010
Cleveland.com is reporting the verdict of a medical malpractice jury. A jury has awarded the victim?s of medical malpractice $1.5 million in a case against two doctors. The couple has been waiting for more than two years to receive the justice they so rightly deserved in this case...

Man Received Kidney with Cancer

Posted on June 04, 2010
AP News is reporting a quite bizarre medical malpractice story. A man received a transplanted kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer and was unaware of it. He was not told that there was cancer within the kidney until almost two months after the transplant...

Jury Finds Hospital Negligent

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Herald Online is reporting that a jury has found that both a hospital and the doctor were medically negligent in the wrongful death of a patient. The jury awarded the medical malpractice victim a $3 million verdict and ruled that the hospital bore the bulk of the responsibility...

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