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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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Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Verdict For Baby’s Severe Birth Injuries

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Wisconsin is not particularly known for its medical malpractice verdicts but a jury verdict during 2010 supports the proposition that Wisconsin juries will award proper monetary damages when medical malpractice affects babies.

In a medical malpractice case decided by a Milwaukee County jury in May, 2010, there was evidence produced during the trial that the pregnant woman’s dilation failed to progress adequately during many hours of labor. Once the woman was finally fully dilated, the delivering obstetrician instructed the nurses to have the mother push and then he left the delivery room for over one hour. When he returned, the woman was still pushing and he continued to allow her to push despite the lack of normal progression with the birth, believing that he could deliver the baby by forceps delivery despite the baby’s compromised oxygenation that required a Cesarean delivery. The obstetrician allowed a resident (a doctor in training) to attempt a forceps delivery but the resident was unsuccessful. The obstetrician then twice attempted a forceps delivery and had the resident apply vacuum for the delivery. The baby was subsequently delivered but with skull fractures from the forceps and with the results of severe hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain). The baby was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

The obstetrician claimed in defense of the medical malpractice claims against him that the baby’s cerebral palsy was due to a type of stroke for which he was not responsible. The jury believed the plaintiff’s experts and found otherwise, awarding $23.2 million in damages in the medical malpractice case.

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The baby, Laron Birmingham, was five-years-old by the time of the May, 2010 medical malpractice trial. He will never be able to live independently or be employed due to his birth injuries. The $23.2 million medical malpractice verdict included past and future medical expenses for the little boy, pain and suffering, loss of income, and compensation for his mother, Kishia Lee’s, losses.

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Birth injuries due to medical malpractice are among the most serious and longest-lasting results of bad medicine. The vast majority of  newborn deliveries are uncomplicated and progress naturally. Often the obstetrician needs only to let nature take its course but needs to be ready if things go awry. Prompt and appropriate intervention by the obstetrician can avoid most medical malpractice claims by avoiding most medical errors and medical mistakes. When it comes to delivering babies, things can go bad quickly and the results can be traumatic or fatal if proper intervention is lacking or untimely.

Birth injuries are a tragic source of medical malpractice claims. If you or a loved one suffered birth injuries or birth trauma due to suspected medical negligence in any state in the U.S., visit our website or telephone us toll free at 800-295-3959 to be connected with local medical malpractice lawyers who may be able to investigate your possible medical malpractice claim and represent you in your medical malpractice case, if appropriate.

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