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...
Read More About Broken Tube Left in Heart Leads to Surgical Malpractice LawsuitA 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...
Read More About Convalescent Hospital Sued in Connection to Woman’s DeathA $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...
Read More About $12 Million Dollar Fraud Settlement with HospitalRecently, 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...
Read More About Gastric Bypass Surgical Malpractice Results in Multi-Millions Dollar VerdictFor 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...
Read More About History of Surgical MalpracticeIt is absolutely vital for your attorney to show that your medical provider failed to meet the standard of care which other average practitioners would have provided under similar circumstances. Without this, there can be no case. But, no matter how badly the doctor failed, no matter how obvious the mistake or the failure to...
Read More About Establishing the Causal Link Between Medical Malpractice and Injury or DeathAccording to internal documents and other sources, a large number of allegedly negligent incidents involving surgical patients being exposed to dirty, unsterilized, medical equipment have occurred over many years within the Detroit Medical Center, which is comprised of five separate medical hospitals. These alarming events have put patients at a significant risk for health related...
Read More About Unsterilized Medical Equipment May Constitute Surgical MalpracticeWhenever a physician, hospital or clinic is providing what is considered to be a significant medical intervention, meaning any sort of testing or medical treatment, as well as participation in any sort of clinical trials or medical research, there must first be, from the patient or subject, “Informed Consent.” Informed Consent is the process for...
Read More About Informed Consent to Medical Tests or ProceduresAccording to some estimates, there are approximately 40,000 to 80,000 deaths every year in hospitals across the United States that occur due to an initial misdiagnosis of a patient’s medical condition. Furthermore, approximately 5% of all autopsies examined revealed that the actual cause of death was due to a condition originally missed by the doctor....
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