New Mexico $2 Million Verdict For Bad Back Surgery
September 24, 2012
On September 7, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million after five days of trial and deliberating for less than three hours, in favor of a man whose back surgery in May, 2008 resulted in the man suffering cardiac arrest 36 hours late[...]
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Hospital Error Rates For Chronically Ill Children
September 23, 2012
In a study of data regarding children who were hospitalized during 2006 in 38 states in the United States, researchers found that 44.1 % of hospitalized children had a least one chronic condition such as cancer, asthma, or digestive disorders (the researchers found that 22.3% of children who were[...]
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Hospital Medical Malpractice Statistics Exposed
September 20, 2012
In a new book written by a world-renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon named Marty Makary, M.D., the author notes that one in six dollars in the U.S. economy are spent in the health care industry, 20% to 30% of all medical tests and procedures are unnecessary, 30% to 40% of total health care expenditure[...]
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Donated Kidney Thrown Out With The Trash During Surgery
September 1, 2012
On August 10, 2012, at Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center, a man voluntarily had surgery to have one of his healthy kidneys removed so that it could be implanted into his sister, who desperately needed a kidney transplant. In what appears to have been an unfathomable hospital error[...]
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Diagnostic Errors In Hospital ICUs Cause 40,500 Deaths Annually
August 30, 2012
The results from a recent study undertaken by the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality that reviewed 31 studies that included 5,863 autopsies involving patients who died in hospital Intensive Care Units found that 28% of the patients who died had a least one missed [...]
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