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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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North Dakota Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain-Damaged Baby

Friday, December 16th, 2011

A Bismarck, North Dakota jury rendered a $4 million verdict in favor of a brain-damaged baby on November 18, 2011, after three and one-half weeks of trial and more than ten hours of jury deliberations. The case involved claims of medical malpractice due to the medical negligence of a midwife who allegedly failed to provide proper care during the delivery of the baby. The medical malpractice case was filed in 2009 for the baby’s delayed delivery that resulted in permanent brain damage, mental retardation, and severe behavioral problems that require the child to have around-the-clock care.

The medical malpractice claim alleged that the midwife negligently failed to deliver the baby many hours earlier than the actual time of birth and that the delay caused the baby to suffer lack of oxygen to the brain that caused the baby’s permanent brain damage. The medical malpractice lawsuit further claimed that had the midwife properly and timely interpreted the fetal heart monitoring during the delay, the fetal distress would have been noted and a faster delivery accomplished that would have avoided the tragic results.

Fetal heart monitoring during labor and delivery, which has been around since the early 1970s,  involves the continuous electronic measurement of the fetal heart rate which can be viewed as tracings on a screen that can be recorded either continuously or periodically to paper (known as fetal heart monitoring “strips”). Measuring and monitoring the fetal heart rate during labor and delivery may be important because changes in the fetal heart rate can signify that the baby is under too much stress that may be depriving the baby of oxygen, and therefore the baby needs to be delivered promptly. Fetal heart monitoring is used in more than 85% of the approximately 4 million live deliveries in the United States each year.

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Fetal heart monitoring is an important tool used in making decisions regarding labor and delivery. In the North Dakota medical malpractice case, the jury evidently determined that the midwife’s alleged failure to properly use and interpret the fetal heart monitoring was the cause of the oxygen deprivation experienced by the baby during labor and delivery and that the baby’s brain damage resulted from the lack of oxygen (the jury apparently disagreed with the defense’s theory that the baby’s problems were due to other factors that were not caused by medical malpractice).

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In cases involving injuries to babies that occur during labor and delivery, medical malpractice attorneys can provide essential assistance to the distraught parents to help determine what caused the injuries to the baby, if the injuries were avoidable with proper and timely medical care, and if the injuries were due to medical malpractice.

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