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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Last Entry: June 10, 2020 at 09:37:56

Illinois Law Seeks to Make Doctor Histories Available

Posted on January 11, 2011
We recently published several stories that highlight the steps taken by the Illinois medical lobby to prevent common-sense action to that protect patient rights and improves healthcare. As reported in the Chicago Tribune, the fight has continued this lame-duck session of the Illinois General Assembly as similar legislation is again on the docket...

Problems with State?s Lax Doctor Disciplinary Process

Posted on January 10, 2011
Official government efforts to ensure proper medical care for patients at the state level typically involves rules proscribing allowable conduct as well as clear procedures to ensure negligent doctors are prevented from harming more patients. Unfortunately, the second-prong of that approach is typically lacking...

Experts Say Hospital Quality Measurements Need Improvement

Posted on January 09, 2011
Consumer Health Day wrote last month about the unreliable use of patient death rates as a measure of the quality of a hospital. The story explained how a new study from researchers a the Harvard Medical School examined varying measurement forms of patient death rates; researchers determined that they presented scattered scores for each individual hospital...

The Truth About Defensive Medicine

Posted on January 08, 2011
One of the many tools in the arsenal of big interests seeking to limit patient rights is the claim that malpractice lawsuits encourage costly defensive medicine. The assumption is then made that these unnecessary medical steps lead to increases in the cost of healthcare...

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New Report Expose Harm to Patients From Doctor Burnout

Posted on January 07, 2011
We recently discussed the risks associated with sleep deprived physicians performing operations on unsuspecting patients. Yesterday the L.A. Times continued that examination of patient safety with a look at a similar problem plaguing many physicians: burnout...

Sanctions For Hospital That Conducted Unnecessary Heart Stent Procedures

Posted on January 06, 2011
The St. Joseph Medical Center made headlines earlier this year when it was discovered that one of its high-profile doctors was committing medical fraud by repeatedly telling patients they needed stents implanted in their heart, even though they didn?t...

Failure to Wash Hands Continues to Spread Germs to Patients

Posted on January 05, 2011
Blog readers are well aware of the dangerous infections that many patients develop during hospitals stay. These hospital inquired infections can be extremely harmful and in almost all cases are preventable if proper steps are taken by medical staff. Similarly, a disturbing new study explored last week in Consumer Health Today explained that anesthesiologists often pass on germs to patients during medical operations...

Debunking the Misleading Claims About Doctors in Illinois

Posted on January 04, 2011
The President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association recently sent a letter to the editor that was published in the Quad Cities Dispatch. The crux of the letter was an attempt to set the record straight about recent claims being pushed by the Illinois Medical Society?the lobbying arm of doctors in the state...

Doctor Sexual Misconduct Needs To Be Explained to Illinois Patients

Posted on January 03, 2011
Chicago Breaking News reported last week on a secret monitoring program for potentially abusive doctors that remains hidden from the public. Several years ago the state?s doctor?s lobby pushed for the creation of the Illinois Professionals Health Program?a project that provides private treatment for health care professionals with sexual misconduct problems...

DePuy Hip Implants May Fail More Frequently in Women

Posted on January 02, 2011
Since the official August recall of certain DePuy hip implants, thousands of patients have taken steps to check the safety of their own devices. In the Chicago area many individuals who had hip implants in the last several years have discovered that their device was defective and in need of replacement...

Doctors Need To Disclose Sleep Fatigue Before Surgery

Posted on January 01, 2011
CNN News reported this week on the results of new research that reveal doctors who are sleep-deprived often pose a unique risk to unsuspecting surgical patients. Overall, researchers found that while falling asleep during surgery is rare, sleepiness poses extreme negative consequences on medical care long before the doctor actually falls asleep...

Victim of Electrosurgery Burn Can Pursue Malpractice Claim

Posted on December 31, 2010
Outpatient Surgery News reported recently on developments in a malpractice lawsuit following a burn caused during a hysterectomy. The female victim visited the Hurley Medical Center in 2005 to have a hysterectomy performed. She awoke from the procedure with a bandage on her right forearm...

Health Care Providers Need to Do Much More to Lessen Radiation Exposure

Posted on December 30, 2010
All those concerned with patient safety have likely read many of the recent reports about victims? overexposure to radiation. With increasing use of radiation to combat the spread of deadly invaders of the body or to receiving imaging for diagnosis, the risk of unnecessary radiation damage increases...

$7 Million Awarded in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Posted on December 29, 2010
Long Island Business News reported today on the judicial verdict in a malpractice case that was recently handed down. The lawsuit was filed against two doctors for their negligent post-op treatment which resulted in years of health problems for the unsuspecting medical victim...

Rash of Radiation Overdoses Reveal Problems with Medical Care

Posted on December 28, 2010
Certain medical procedures, tests, and operations will always involve risks. It is understood that even perfect medical care may produce complications at times. However, that fact does not absolve all medical personnel from doing all in their power to reasonably shield patients from unwanted side-effects...

Much Reform Needed Before Patient Safety Improves

Posted on December 27, 2010
The Las Vegas Sun recently profiled a Chicago doctor who is going against the grain and taking a stand for the improvement of patient safety. For many doctors, news of a medical error begins a process of cover-ups, legal stonewalling, and excuses. However, some brave physicians take responsibility for the errors, seek to provide relief to the victims, and attempt to learn from the occurrence so that future victims are spared...

The Myth of the Fleeing Medical Student

Posted on December 26, 2010
As with many issues related to medical malpractice, misinformation abounds. Insurance companies and the powerful medical lobby are often willing to perpetuate distorted truths about the effect of malpractice lawsuits in an effort to influence policy in their preferred direction...

Malpractice Lawsuit Filed After Surgical Error

Posted on December 26, 2010
Ultimate Pasadena News reported earlier this week on a new malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman against a hospital and nurse who treated her following a hospital stay. The lawsuit was filed because the victim claims that the poor medical care caused her injury...

Jury Awards $3 Million Following Two Malpractice Lawsuits

Posted on December 24, 2010
Lancaster Online News recently explained two new jury verdicts handed down in area malpractice lawsuits. The first case involved a doctor alleged to have made surgical mistakes leading to permanent nerve damage in a patient?s hand. The victim was a laborer whose right hand was injured in a construction accident...

Malpractice Lawsuit Filed After Mistakes Leads To Amputation

Posted on December 23, 2010
The Madison-St. Clair Record reported earlier this month of a new malpractice lawsuit filed following a devastating medical mistake. The victimized patient alleges that the negligence of a doctor at Anderson Hospital caused both his feet to be amputated...

Hospitals Failing To Eliminate Preventable Deaths

Posted on December 22, 2010
A story in the Washington Post recently commented on the new reports that indicate that there has been little to no reduction in the number of preventable medical errors in recent years?despite a claimed surge in efforts made by hospital to improve patient safety...

Levin & Perconti Lawsuit Highlights Insufficient Supervision & Training of Medical Residents

Posted on December 21, 2010
This weekend we posted a story discussing the shocking medical mistakes made by many inexperienced resident doctors. One of the tragic examples profiled in that story involved the death of a young man at a Chicago teaching facility?Weiss Memorial Hospital...

Malpractice Caps Shown to Have No Effect On Medical Costs

Posted on December 20, 2010
The Insurance and Financial Advisor News recently published a story that reiterates the reality that limits on malpractice damage awards have little to no effect on health care costs. Supporters of the caps typically claim that medical costs will be drastically lowered by limiting the amount of money a jury can award a victim of malpractice, regardless of the injury...

Lax Supervision of Medical Residents Puts Patients At Risk

Posted on December 19, 2010
The Dallas Morning News recently conducted a thorough investigation into the way doctors are trained that has consequences for many patients, leading to many medical mistakes. Investigators at the publication uncovered several cases in their area of patients of all ages rushed to the emergency room, treated by inexperienced resident doctors, and ultimately killed by the physician?s medial error...

Illinois Medical Lobby Prevents Attempts to Bar Dangerous Doctors

Posted on December 18, 2010
Attempts to improve the medical system in Illinois often run into a large roadblock in the form of the Illinois State Medical Society. Unfortunately the group often works to protect bad doctors without concern for the needs of the patients who unknowingly seek their care...

New Fact Sheet Explains Recent Medical Malpractice Studies

Posted on December 17, 2010
The Center for Justice and Democracy recently produced a new document that summarizes recent malpractice studies. The main take-away from the research is that that ?crisis? of malpractice is not caused by lawsuits, but by the actual committing of malpractice...

Big Business Attempt to Take Away Legal Rights

Posted on December 16, 2010
The war to take away victim rights continued today with the release of a ?judicial hellhole? report by a front group for big business. The American Tort Reform Association is an organization propped up by corporate interests like Dow Chemical, Exxon, Pfizer, and others...

Unnecessary-Sent Doctor Admits Allowing Salespeople Into Surgery Room

Posted on December 15, 2010
We have been closely following the case of medical fraud at the St. Joseph Medical Center involving the prominent heart doctor who exposed hundreds of patients to unnecessary stent procedures. The surgeon at the center of the scandal is accused of telling patients that they needed stents inserted into their hearts, even though they didn?t, all to raise his own profile and increase his pocketbook...

Study Finds Doctors Often Refuse To Participate In Malpractice Mediation

Posted on December 14, 2010
The Wall Street Journal Health blog recently discussed the results of a new study of mediation in medical malpractice cases. Overall, the results were clear in finding that mediation helped lower the cost of litigation and created a reduction in medical errors...

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Continues For Woman Killed Following Childbirth

Posted on December 13, 2010
WREG News reported today on the developments in a malpractice lawsuit that was filed following the death of a young woman several years ago. The wrongful death suit was commenced by the family of the victim who died August 13, 2005 at the Parkhill Clinic for Women...

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