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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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Large Recent Wyoming Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Broken Neck

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

At the end of October, 2011, a federal jury in Wyoming awarded a man whose broken neck was not properly diagnosed a record-breaking $9 million (the prior record was reported to be $1.5 million). The jury found that a board-certified emergency room physician and the hospital that employed him breached the standard of care when the man’s fractured neck was not timely diagnosed, resulting in permanent and very painful shoulder paralysis that prevented the man from working and caused harm to his marital relationship.

What Happened?

On December 9, 2008, the man was involved in a roll-over accident and was rushed by ambulance to the emergency room of a regional hospital. The ambulance personnel who transported the man from the scene of the accident to the hospital immobilized the man on a backboard and applied a neck brace. Despite the man complaining of neck pain, the emergency room doctor did not order cervical (neck) x-rays and the doctor removed the neck brace (x-rays were taken of his head and back, but not his neck). It was  also alleged that the doctor failed to perform an appropriate physical examination of the man’s neck in the emergency room. The emergency room doctor discharged the man to home.

Four days later, the man returned to the emergency room with complaints of left shoulder and arm weakness. At that time, his unstable cervical spine fractures were diagnosed, requiring emergency neck fusion surgery that could not prevent permanent C-5 nerve root damage. The man had to have a second neck fusion surgery and will need further surgeries in the future, including the implantation of a spinal cord stimulator in an effort to reduce the man’s intense pain.

The emergency room doctor and the hospital argued at trial that the doctor did not fail to examine the man’s neck during the first emergency room treatment and that someone who experiences a roll-over accident and complains of neck pain does not need x-rays of the neck.

The jury apparently disagreed with the doctor and the hospital: the jury awarded the man $7 million for his injuries and $2 million to his wife for harm to their 30-year marriage.

Source

We necessarily rely on our doctor’s experience and competence in providing timely and appropriate medical care when we most need it. When the medical negligence (that is, medical care that fails to meet the required standard of care) of our health care providers harms us, we need to seek the advice of medical malpractice lawyers regarding our rights. MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com can help connect you with medical malpractice lawyers in your area who may be able to assist you with your medical malpractice claim: visit our website or call us toll free at 800-295-3959.

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