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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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South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Dentists Who Kept On Pulling…

Sunday, December 18th, 2011

When a 28-year-old woman had a cracked tooth, she sought treatment at a South Carolina dental clinic. The dentists did not only address the issue with the cracked tooth, they decided that all 16 of her upper teeth should be extracted (there was no medical reason to remove 13 of her teeth). The woman also alleged that the dentists falsified their medical records for her in an attempt to justify all of the extractions.

By the time of the 2009 medical malpractice jury trial in Florence County, South Carolina, the young women had been without her upper teeth for three years. The cost of restorative dental surgery will be about $80,000.00. The jury returned with a verdict in favor of the woman in the amount of $2 million. This may seem like a large amount at first blush, until you realize how the loss of so many teeth affects the physical and mental well-being of people.

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Extracting so many teeth (especially when not medically necessary) can cause many medical and appearance problems. Without teeth, the woman would be unable to properly chew her food (which can lead to nutritional difficulties affecting general well-being). The lack of teeth will dissolve away the jaw bone (chewing pressure stimulates the jaw bone), leading to a loss of support for the face and causing an increased appearance of aging (facial sagging and shrinkage) and increased wrinkles.

When teeth are missing, the opposing teeth do not act as a counter-force and will erupt into the mouth. When the upper teeth are missing, the lower teeth expand into the mouth and will traumatize the upper gum tissue and the sinus will expand and cause the bone to be destroyed from the inside out (the upper teeth help to keep the sinus in its proper position).

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Dental malpractice is a type of medical malpractice claims. Many medical malpractice attorneys also handle dental malpractice cases if the injuries and damages are severe enough to justify the expenses and time commitment in bringing a dental malpractice claim against a negligent dentist.

If you or a loved one have been injured as a result of dental malpractice, click here to visit our website  so that we may attempt to connect you with medical malpractice lawyers in your local area who may be able to represent you in your dental malpractice case. Or call us toll free at 800-295-3959.

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