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Today’s 300th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting For MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

Today, MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com is proud to celebrate its 300th consecutive daily blog posting. Over the course of 299 postings, we have explored numerous medical malpractice topics, including states’ medical malpractice laws, states’ statistics regarding medical malpractice claims, results of medical malpractice jury verdicts in various states, and relevant and timely medical information useful to our readers.

Our medical malpractice research over the last 10 months has revealed the constant assault on the rights of medical malpractice victims to receive fair and adequate compensation for their losses that has drastically, unfairly, and indiscriminately reduced the compensation received by them for their permanent, painful, and debilitating injuries and losses.

Our blog has examined the well-financed and highly-organized efforts of the health care industry promoting “tort reform” legislation drafted on its behalf by politically-connected, highly-paid lobbyists who employ public fear tactics (for example, telling patients that their doctors will need to give up their medical practices due to too high medical malpractice insurance premiums or preaching the often-recited but rarely-supported mantra about “frivolous” medical malpractice lawsuits) to wage a war that they inappropriately call ”tort reform” (“reform” implies that something was wrong to begin with). Their high-powered tactics are intended to elevate the financial interests of the very few doctors, hospitals, and other medical care providers who fail to provide the medical care that their peers have established as the bare minimum required level of medical care that should have been provided under the circumstances, over the long-established legal and moral rights of the innocent victims of negligence to be fairly and adequately compensated for their injuries and losses caused solely by the wrongdoing of others.

We have tried to bring to light the processes of certain federal agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), that affect the health of our citizens, such as the federal drug-approval process that can be influenced by political considerations and the financial power held by massive drug manufacturers. We have discussed the objective findings of studies undertaken by independent federal government organizations such as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that were relevant to medical malpractice issues, to help our readers determine for themselves the unbiased, honest information that will help them form their own opinions on medical malpractice issues relevant to their lives.

While our name, MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com, and our website  are dedicated to helping the innocent victims of medical malpractice be connected with medical malpractice lawyers in their local area throughout the United States who may be able and willing to investigate their possible medical malpractice claims for them and represent them in their medical malpractice case, if appropriate, we have always provided the source of our information and the link to our source in our blogs so that our readers can read for themselves the original source information.

MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com will continue to seek out and explore interesting and useful medical malpractice information for our future blogs. If you have information or a request for information regarding medical malpractice issues important to you, please contact us with your information or your request so that we can provide the information to our blog readers.

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Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Man Who Bled To Death After Surgery

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

A 37-year-old Alabama man had surgery in a hospital for a duodenal ulcer. After the surgery, the man required multiple blood transfusions. Despite having a low blood count after the surgery, the man was discharged to home following the surgery, where he died a few days later from exsanguination in an artery (bleeding out to the point that the volume of blood in the body cannot sustain life), according to an autopsy.

The man’s family brought a medical malpractice case against the hospital where the surgery was performed and against various physicians involved with the man’s medical care. The medical malpractice claim alleged that the surgery was negligently performed, other medical care was negligently provided. the attending physician failed to adequately perform a proper examination of the man before discharge from the hospital, and that the man was not provided with proper follow-up care. The medical malpractice defendants countered that the man’s ulcer was unusually large and required non-standard surgical procedures. They also alleged during the trial that the man suffered from anemia, was a smoker, and that he used alcohol and over-the-counter pain medication that they alleged complicated his medical condition.

The two-week medical malpractice trial earlier this year was followed by three hours of deliberations by the jury. The jury found that the defendants were negligent in their care of the man and that their negligence was the cause of his death. The jury awarded $3 million in damages resulting from the man’s death.

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All surgeries, whether they are considered minor surgery or major surgery, have inherent risks due to the nature and extent of the surgeries themselves. While we all hope for the best possible outcome from surgery, not all bad outcomes are due to medical malpractice. Some potential complications from surgery are known ahead of time and are supposed to be discussed with the patient (part of the “informed consent” discussion between the surgeon and the patient before the surgery). Sometimes the extent and/or manner of surgery needs to be extended or changed after the surgery has begun due to findings and professional decisions necessarily made during the surgery. There are also known possible complications from the anesthesia used during surgery.

However, there are circumstances that occur before, during, or after surgery that may fall below the level of care necessary under the circumstances (that is, a breach of the standard of care that is medical malpractice) for which the surgeon and/or other medical care providers are responsible. Sometimes it is not obvious that medical malpractice occurred during surgery (unlike operating at the wrong surgical site, which is a clear case of medical malpractice) for which a medical malpractice attorney’s assistance in having the medical records reviewed by an appropriate medical expert may help determine if medical malpractice occurred (after all, the patient is usually unconscious or heavily sedated during the surgery and probably is unaware of medical negligence occurring during the surgery).

If you suspect that you or a family member have been the victim of surgical malpractice, you should consult with a medical malpractice lawyer to learn about your rights and to protect your interests in the matter. Click here to visit our website  or call us toll free at 800-295-3959 to be connected with medical malpractice lawyers in your local area who may be able to assist you in investigating your possible medical malpractice claim.

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