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March 15th, 2017

10 Tragic yet Avoidable Anesthesia Errors (Part 3)

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog post, we’ve seen some shocking medical errors—doctors insulting a patient during surgery, an anesthesiologist blinding five people in one day, a three-year-old dying in the dentist’s chair. Here are some more tales from the operating room that never should have happened:

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March 13th, 2017

10 Tragic yet Avoidable Anesthesia Errors (Part 2)

In our last post, we saw how anesthesia awareness can cause a patient to be trapped during surgery, unable to move, but feeling all the pain; how children are more sensitive to anesthesia than adults; and how one careless anesthesiologist can blind five people in a day. Here are three more horror stories due to...

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March 10th, 2017

10 Tragic yet Avoidable Anesthesia Errors (Part 1)

Did you know there’s a phobia specifically for surgical operations? If you have tomophobia, you never want to go under that scalpel. And with good reason, it turns out. That reason, called “anesthesia awareness,” is what happens when you are paralyzed—fully awake, unable to move a muscle—during surgery. It was depicted in the popular 2007...

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March 9th, 2017

History of Forceps During Childbirth

According to some accounts, the use of forceps during the delivery of a baby has been around since 1500 BC. They were more often used to save the life of the mother if the baby did not survive the birth. In the year 1600 AD, what may be considered “modern forceps” came into more common...

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February 20th, 2017

Broken Tube Left in Heart Leads to Surgical Malpractice Lawsuit

We go to the hospital when we are sick and expect that we will receive the proper treatment and care. We trust that our doctors and other healthcare professionals will act in our best interests and keep us safe and fully informed about our own medical condition. But what happens when that trust is discarded...

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February 17th, 2017

Convalescent Hospital Sued in Connection to Woman’s Death

A lawsuit has been filed in San Luis Obispo Superior Court alleging that a convalescent hospital in Atascadero, California allowed a woman recovering there to develop bedsores which eventually lead to her death. The woman was staying at the facility to recover from hip surgery, but later died in a local hospital from complications brought...

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February 15th, 2017

$12 Million Dollar Fraud Settlement with Hospital

A $12 million dollar settlement in a whistleblower lawsuit brought against a Miami Hospital was recently reached. The federal lawsuit alleged that a cardiac specialist at the hospital performed many costly and unnecessary medical procedures on patients, going back to the year 2007. The doctor at the center of the allegations was the director of...

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February 14th, 2017

Gastric Bypass Surgical Malpractice Results in Multi-Millions Dollar Verdict

Recently, a botched gastric bypass surgery performed at Memorial Hospital Jacksonville resulted in a $178 million jury verdict. In this case, a young police officer had elected to undergo gastric bypass surgery in a bid to not only lose weight, but with high hopes of gaining a healthier and longer life. The officer was considered...

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February 7th, 2017

History of Surgical Malpractice

For as long as humans have been performing surgical procedures, there have been concerns and complaints about how such surgeries were performed. The earliest surgeries were most likely performed out of sheer ignorance and desperation, with little knowledge or guidance as to which procedures would produce what results. As early as 6500 B.C., a basic...

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