What Is Medical Malpractice? (Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)
September 8, 2012
What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Maryland MD. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, Code Ann. § 3-2A-02 (2012) § 3-2A-02. Exclusiveness of procedures(1) In any a[...]
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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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2012 Republican Party Platform And “Tort Reform”
August 31, 2012
The Republican Party has published its 2012 Republican Party Platform in which it addresses many issues, including “tort reform” under the heading, “Reducing Costs through Tort Reform,” in which it states: Frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits have ballooned the cost of[...]
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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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