Posted on Dec. 20th, 2012 | in News, Surgical Errors
Surgical errors, including leaving of items inside of the body or operations on the wrong body part, occur dozens of times every week in hospitals. It has been conservatively estimated that 80,000 such incidents have occurred during the last 20 years. A study described these surgical errors as ones that should never occur. Yet the… read more
Posted on Dec. 17th, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
Whether you call them emergency rooms or emergency departments, a recent study shows that if you seek medical attention when one is busy you might be risking more than money. According to the study, there was a direct link between busy ERs, mortality risk and higher financial costs. In an average workplace, rushing a task… read more
Posted on Dec. 14th, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
Taking care of an elderly person can be hard so a lot of families entrust the care of their loved one to a nursing home facility. It’s scary to turn the care over to someone else, but it’s worse when the facility has problems with reporting and its staff. This week two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, women… read more
Posted on Dec. 10th, 2012 | in Failure to Diagnose, News
An Illinois man has brought a lawsuit against a hospital for his losing part use of his hand. The patient was admitted with cuts to his left middle and index fingers that came about due to a fall, and he was complaining of numbness and pain. The patient was apparently treated and released. However, it… read more
Posted on Dec. 6th, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
A Pennsylvania doctor was recently assessed a civil penalty of $2,000 and ordered to enroll in a remedial education program due to purported problems with the keeping of medical records. The doctor apparently did not note in the records changes in a patient’s medical condition, nor did the doctor report the symptoms reported when prescribing… read more
Posted on Dec. 3rd, 2012 | in Birth Injuries, News
Medical caps seem to be part of the discussion anytime a medical malpractice case is filed. Though the claimed intent of these caps is to compensate only legitimate medical malpractice claims, what it has instead often led to is confusion as to how much such legitimate claims should be awarded. For example, a 4-year old… read more
Posted on Nov. 29th, 2012 | in Brain Injuries, News
A Pennsylvania man with a history of heart disease was administered general anesthesia during cataract surgery and subsequently died. The eye doctor performing the surgery has now been sued for medical malpractice as a result of the man’s death. The allegations of the complaint suggest that the patient was a poor candidate for receiving this… read more
Posted on Nov. 27th, 2012 | in News, Surgical Errors
Federal requirements regarding the reporting of medical errors are apparently still open to interpretation. According to certain doctors, the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 was passed to encourage physicians to report errors while at the same time be shielded from public disclosure of these errors. Yet certain states have issued court rulings… read more
Posted on Nov. 23rd, 2012 | in Medication Errors, News
A patient wakes up and discovers that his hands and legs have been amputated due to an infection called methicillan-sensitive staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). This infection was originally misdiagnosed and, because it was left untreated, eventually resulted in the need for the removal of the limbs. This patient has now brought a medical malpractice lawsuit against… read more
Posted on Nov. 19th, 2012 | in Failure to Diagnose, News
Washington Hospital, located about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, now finds itself in the center of a medical malpractice lawsuit. A former female patient claims a pathologist at the facility misread pap smears and other tests for close to five straight years before she finally was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The hospital has been reviewing… read more
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