White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease
November 7, 2013
It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]
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Kaiser Sued Over Access To Mental Health Benefits
November 2, 2013
On October 3, 2013, a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (“Kaiser”) in California by three plaintiffs who allege on their own behalf and on behalf of potentially thousands of other patients that Kaiser is failing to properly treat pa[...]
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Harming Victims Of Medical Negligence
October 11, 2013
No one wants or expects to become the victim of medical malpractice. No one wants to live the rest of their life with unrelenting pain, devastating disabilities, and the lack of enjoyment of life solely because a medical provider made a mistake, caused an error, was careless, was inattentive, beca[...]
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Plastic Surgery Malpractice Statistics
October 7, 2013
While many people think of elective surgery designed to enhance one’s physical appearance when they think of plastic surgery, plastic surgery is a godsend for people who have suffered physical injuries due to accidents, have congenital deformities, or have suffered trauma due to disease. W[...]
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5 Medical Malpractice Misperceptions
October 1, 2013
What constitutes medical malpractice and how medical malpractice is defined may differ from state to state in the United States. In general terms, medical malpractice occurs when a medical provider fails to provide care consistent with the required medical standard of care under the circumstances [...]
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5 Behaviors To Be Avoided By Medical Malpractice Victims
September 26, 2013
When medical negligence causes serious injuries or other significant harms to patients, many of the victims of medical malpractice (and their families) seek to determine if they are entitled to be compensated for their losses under their state medical malpractice laws. The road ahead for medical [...]
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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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Cognitive Bias Is An Important Cause Of Diagnostic Errors
August 11, 2013
In an article appearing on June 27, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the effect of cognitive bias in reaching incorrect diagnoses was discussed. It was noted that the rate of diagnostic errors is estimated to be between 10% and 15%, with the rate highest for specialties such as emergen[...]
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