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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Texas Doctor Defending First Of 18 Medical Malpractice Cases
September 19, 2012
A Wichita Falls, Texas doctor is presently involved in jury selection in one of at least eighteen local medical malpractice cases filed against him. And medical malpractice claims are not the only professional claims that must concern him — the FBI raided the doctor’s office in April, 20[...]
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San Francisco $1.138 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict
September 18, 2012
On September 12, 2012, a San Francisco, California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the total amount of $1,138,000 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs. The medical malpractice trial lasted one month in the Superior Court during which the medical malpractice jury heard testim[...]
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Florida Hospice Whistleblower Lawsuit
September 10, 2012
“Hospice” has been defined as a “facility or program designed to provide a caring environment for meeting the physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill.” (Source) Medicare provides hospice care benefits to Medicare beneficiaries who have a terminal illness (a lif[...]
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Tennessee Nursing Home Fined For Resident’s Rape
September 2, 2012
The Fairpark Healthcare Center nursing home in Maryville, Tennessee, which is owned by Kindred Healthcare Inc. (“Kindred”), has been fined $3,000 by the Tennessee Department of Health and is being fined $6,000 per day by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)[...]
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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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