A-Rod’s Possible Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
August 30, 2013
It was reported last week that lawyers for New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) are preparing a medical malpractice lawsuit on his behalf against the Yankees’ team doctor, Christopher Ahmad, arising out of an incident that occurred in October 2012, when the Yankees were[...]
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Hospital Pharmacist Malpractice
August 29, 2013
Hospital pharmacists are not immune to medical malpractice claims. Such claims may involve the wrong medication being dispensed (especially if the drugs have similar sounding names), the wrong dosage of the drug (such as filling a prescription for 10 ml of a drug when the prescribed dosage was 0.[...]
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State Medical Boards Are Failing Patients
August 25, 2013
An investigation report appearing in USA TODAY on August 20, 2013 found that thousands of doctors throughout the United States who lost their clinical privileges at hospitals and other medical facilities due to their misconduct were not punished by the state medical boards that were responsible fo[...]
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Sperm Bank Meltdown Leads To 40 Lawsuits
August 24, 2013
On August 20, 2013, forty (40) lawsuits were filed in the Cook County Circuit Court (Illinois) against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation on behalf of men whose frozen sperm specimens that were stored by the defendants so that they could possibly become bi[...]
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