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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Montana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death of 36-Year-Old
August 3, 2012
After a two-week trial during July, 2012, a Montana medical malpractice jury found that a local Butte, Montana hospital failed to timely diagnose the rare medical condition of a 36-year-old patient in 2006 that contributed to her death. The woman was suffering from TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic[...]
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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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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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Texas Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Surgeon’s Disability
April 13, 2012
A Texas woman has recently filed a medical malpractice claim against her former surgeon, claiming that the surgeon was dealing with his cancer at the time of her surgery that led to the surgeon’s failure to perform her surgery properly due to his alleged physical disability from the cancer and[...]
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Is This Medical Malpractice? When A Good Deed Results In Death
April 10, 2012
One of the saddest stories we recently heard regarding a possible medical malpractice incident occurred in May, 2010 in the operating room of a major transplant hospital in the United States when a living liver donor died on the operating room table while giving the gift of life to his brother-in-l[...]
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