New Hampshire Med Tech Charged In Hep C Outbreak
July 22, 2012
A traveling contract medical techician (“med tech”) had his career abruptly ended after being accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak involving 31 patients over the period of a few months in a New Hampshire hospital. He was arrested and charged on July 19, 2012. Prior to his employme[...]
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Louisiana Medical Malpractice Claim For Permanent Paralysis
July 5, 2012
A man was admitted into the hospital for a liver transplant. While he was recuperating from his surgery, he was placed in a recliner for 7 to 8 hours. The medical staff then attempted to transfer the man from the recliner into his bed by using bed sheets. During the transfer, the man heard and felt[...]
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North Carolina Medical Malpractice Claim For Rape In E.R.
July 2, 2012
A North Carolina woman has filed a medical malpractice claim against a North Carolina hospital and others for allegedly failing to protect her from being raped by a male patient she did not know who was placed in the same room with her while she was sedated. The woman was brought to the hospital a[...]
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$55 Million Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict
June 27, 2012
On June 25, 2012, after more than 11 hours of deliberations, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the parents of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage, cerebral palsy, mental and physical disabilities, acute renal failure, and other serious injuries as a res[...]
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Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mutilated Genitals
June 21, 2012
A federal medical malpractice jury in Baltimore has awarded $1.5 million to a 38-year-old man whose genitals were allegedly mutilated by a flesh-eating bacteria that a local hospital failed to diagnose for over 58 hours. The award in the amount of $1.4 million for noneconomic damages will be auto[...]
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Hospital Safety In The U.S.
June 17, 2012
A non-profit group of employers and private healthcare experts in the United States has issued a report in which it grades safety in hospitals in the U.S. based on the safety of patients. About 400 patients in U.S. hospitals die as a result of hospital errors every day. Those hospital errors [...]
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Unnecessary Chemotherapy — Was It Medical Malpractice?
June 16, 2012
When a 5-year-old girl had swelling in her throat that did not go away, her mother brought her to a local emergency room. The doctors who examined the little girl suspected that she had a cancerous tumor and ordered a biopsy. The results of the biopsy were inconclusive, so doctors referred the fami[...]
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