Today, We Celebrate Our 1,300th CONSECUTIVE Daily Blog Posting
September 10, 2014
When we began our blogging on a daily basis three-and-a-half years ago on March 5, 2011, we had no particular goal in mind as to how many consecutive daily blogs we would post. In fact, we were concerned that we would soon run out of relevant medical malpractice topics that we could blog about and [[...]
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Confirmation Bias In Medical Malpractice Cases
September 4, 2014
Confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias in which we favor information that confirms our previously held beliefs or biases, ignore contrary information, and which impacts not only how we gather information but also influences how we interpret and recall information. Because we tend to seek[...]
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VA Medical Malpractice Statistics
August 18, 2014
The Veterans Health Administration is one of the largest health care providers in the United States, providing care to more than 8.6 million of the 22 million veterans through 152 VA hospitals and 817 community-based outpatient clinics (as of March 30, 2012). The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs[...]
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Man Enters Hospital For Circumcision, Leaves Without His Penis
July 28, 2014
Sounds like a bad joke, but it was horrifically serious for a man in Alabama. On July 22, 2014, the Alabama man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Alabama state court against a hospital and others for his injuries and damages resulting from the amputation of his penis during a circumcision [...]
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Lawyers Stand Ready To Help VA Medical Malpractice Victims
May 23, 2014
We at medicalmalpracticelawyers.com have made extensive efforts in light of the recent scandals involving VA medical facilities to find lawyers in all U.S. states who stand ready to assist veterans and their dependents who have been injured (or worse) as a result of VA medical malpractice. Just two [...]
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