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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.

We wish all of you the best of health, happiness, and enjoyment of life for the New Year!

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Federal Judge Awards Alaska Medical Malpractice Judgment For 14-Month-Old’s Injuries

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Medical malpractice can occur anywhere and at any time, even in remote areas like Alaska.

In March, 2011, a federal judge with the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska entered a judgment against a health care clinic and a medical corporation that was the parent of the clinic in the amount of $233,939 in compensatory damages, which included economic damages in the amount of $88,939 and noneconomic damages in the amount of $145,000, for a 14-month-old boy who contracted a serious blood infection (MRSA) as a result of medical malpractice.

The boy’s mother alleged in her medical malpractice complaint that she brought her young son to the medical clinic on two occasions because the boy was “cranky” and had an area of redness that was later identified as a boil. The clinic’s medical providers during both visits provided the mother with medication for her son and instructed her to apply warm compresses to the red area. Two days after the second clinic visit, the little boy was unresponsive due to sepsis (Sepsis is a serious illness caused when the bloodstream is overwhelmed by bacteria, causing an unsafe drop in blood pressure and affecting the kidneys, liver, lungs, and central nervous system, resulting in shock. A change in mental status (such as the boy’s nonresponsiveness) and hyperventilation may be among the earliest signs of sepsis. Sepsis is often life-threatening, particularly for people with weakened immune systems or chronic illnesses.) Source

The federal judge who heard this medical malpractice case determined that the standard of care required that the clinic’s medical personnel incise and drain the red area no later than at the time of the second clinic visit. The judge determined that the mother had proven her medical malpractice claim that the clinic had failed to meet the standard of care applicable to her son’s care and that such failure was the cause of her son’s sepsis.

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Wherever medical malpractice occurs, the results can lead to permanent and painful injuries, even death. In general, medical malpractice occurs when a medical provider fails to provide that level of care that is required under the circumstances. Often the victims of medical malpractice suspect that “something went wrong” but do not have the knowledge, education, training, or experience to determine if someone’s medical negligence caused the bad medical result. Often it is necessary to find a local medical malpractice lawyer to investigate the circumstances of the medical care and the unexpected results to determine if there is a basis for a medical malpractice claim.

Visit our website or call us toll free at 800-295-3959 to be connected with medical malpractice lawyers in your area who may be able to investigate your possible medical malpractice claim and represent you in a medical malpractice case, if appropriate.

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