Medical Malpractice Law Blog
Posted on May 21, 2013
A jury in Philadelphia decided that Pottstown Memorial medical Center was completely responsible for a serious birth injury. According to the jury, a child developed quadriplegic cerebral palsy after ...
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Posted on Mar 6, 2013
Dr. Wilson was recently cited as a source in an edition of ED Legal Letter™. In the article, he provided insightful information about medical-legal cases and expert witnesses. The article, ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2012
What is the biggest killer in the United States? Heart disease. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), almost a million people have a heart attack each year, and over six hundred thousand ...
Continue reading "Failure to Diagnose a Heart Attack and the Fatal Consequences That Follow" »
Posted on Dec 13, 2012
The seriousness of a spinal cord injury cannot be overstated. The spinal cord is the central nervous system's highway for communicating messages between the brain and the rest of the body. It is ...
Continue reading "Aggravating Spinal Cord Injuries: Who is to Blame?" »
Posted on Dec 11, 2012
Anesthesia is the medical procedure by which a person undergoing surgery is rendered insensitive to the pain of the procedure. Local or regional anesthesia involves the temporary removal of sensation ...
Continue reading "Recognizing and Recovering From Anesthesia Errors" »
Posted on Dec 8, 2012
Missing a diagnosis of appendicitis can be a fatal mistake, as happened a few years ago to a six-year- old English boy named Jesse Jones. A series of doctors and nurses continually misdiagnosed his ...
Continue reading ""Stomach Bug" or Missed Appendicitis?" »
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
Ira Weiss was a 62-year old professor of economics in New York when he suffered a stroke. His family found him passed out on the floor and took him to the hospital immediately. They alleged in a ...
Continue reading "Clot Busters and Ischemic Stroke" »
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
One of the most important doctors is one who you may never meet: the radiologist. A radiologist uses imaging technology, including x-rays, CT scans, MRIs, and mammograms to detect, diagnose, and treat ...
Continue reading "Failing to Detect a Medical Condition: The Danger of Radiology Mistakes" »
Posted on Dec 1, 2012
When people normally think of malpractice, they think of botched surgeries, failure to diagnose illness, medication errors and other failures of doctors that relate to the way treatment itself is ...
Continue reading "Mental Health Malpractice: When Doctors Take Advantage of Patients" »
Posted on Nov 29, 2012
You go to a hospital to get better. Thankfully, this is usually the case. But sometimes, the hospital stay and the treatment there can itself be the source of a painful, and even deadly condition. A ...
Continue reading "Blood Clots and Hospitals: A Killer Combination That Can Be Avoided" »
Posted on Nov 27, 2012
Every year in the United States, 98,000 people die from medical errors. And while every medical procedure has an inherent level of risk — for example, even when everyone involved does everything ...
Continue reading "Hospitals and Doctors Should Learn From Their Mistakes, Not Hide Them" »
Posted on Nov 26, 2012
When a person is injured, they have different grounds for damages. Generally, these are broken into specific damages and general damages. Specific damages are those that are measurable, like loss of ...
Continue reading "Liability Limits and Medical Malpractice" »
Posted on Nov 23, 2012
In personal injury cases, plaintiffs often have a choice as to where to file their complaint against the defendant. This occurs most often when the plaintiff resides in a different state from all of ...
Continue reading "Choosing the Right Court System For Your Personal Injury Case" »
Posted on Nov 21, 2012
In 2000, Sandra and William Earl Armstrong gave birth to a baby girl. Delivered by caesarean section the baby was injured during birth, leaving her legally deaf and blind. She cannot sit, walk, crawl ...
Continue reading "Who has a Right to My Medical Malpractice Award?" »
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
It is estimated that nearly 20% of nursing home patients given psychoactive drugs do not have a mental condition that warrants the treatment. These drugs are used as a restraint rather than a ...
Continue reading "Use of Restraints on Residents in Nursing Homes" »
Posted on Nov 15, 2012
This past year has seen an outbreak of meningitis that has spread nationwide. The meningitis was connected to tainted steroids produced at a Framingham drug compounding pharmacy and have led to many ...
Continue reading "Who is At Fault When You Get Faulty Medication?" »
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
The Joint Commission has been working to prevent Wrong Site Surgery (WSS) since 1998. They have come up with an initiative to prevent WSS using a checklist, the Universal Protocol, which contains ...
Continue reading "Wrong Site Surgery Still Occurs" »
Posted on Nov 8, 2012
The plaintiff brought her husband to the hospital for shortness of breath. Upon examination by a physician, the husband was not admitted — he was sent home with instructions to see a pulmonary ...
Continue reading "What Professional Standards Apply to Physicians in Malpractice Cases?" »
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
It depends. Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor or other medical practitioner commits a negligent act or omission that leads to injury. Prescribing a drug for purposes authorized by the Food and ...
Continue reading "Can I File a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit After a Drug Recall?" »
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
Improving Medical Device Safety Medical devices—everything from pacemakers to blood pressure cuffs, surgical mesh to stitches—have become increasingly important in maintaining ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2012
Medical malpractice consists of any negligent act or omission by a medical practitioner that causes an injury. Malpractice law determines medical negligence by comparing your practitioner's action ...
Continue reading "Common Medical Malpractice Errors" »
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
Not every bad medical outcome results from bad medical practice. For example, some surgeries have widely-acknowledged high rates of failure, but patients and surgeons opt for the procedure anyway ...
Continue reading "How Do I Know If It's Malpractice?" »
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
Medical malpractice constitutes a special subsection of tort law, and in many states has its own statute of limitations, the rules governing when you must file suit or waive your rights. Statutes of ...
Continue reading "How Soon Do I Have To File a Medical Malpractice Claim?" »
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
Nursing home malpractice is comparable to any other type of malpractice: a negligent act or omission by a nursing home professional that causes injury to a nursing home resident. Because nursing homes ...
Continue reading "What Is Nursing Home Malpractice and How Do I Stop It?" »
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
For those of us who do not regularly interact with courts and lawyers, the idea of testifying before a jury or sitting through a harrowing trial can be intimidating. For some people, the risk of ...
Continue reading "Will I Have To Go Court To Win My Medical Malpractice Claim?" »