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What Are The Types Of Medical Errors? – Part II

December 5, 2024

Surgical Errors Errors in surgery have the highest risk of severe patient injury and death. Intraoperative errors are estimated to be the primary issue in 75% of malpractice cases involving surgeons. Surgical errors involving the wrong site, patient, or procedure should never occur. Investigations i[...]

Medical Errors – Part I

December 4, 2024

One study reported that approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some preventable harm each year, while another estimated that >200,000 patient deaths annually were due to preventable medical errors. Moreover, medical errors have a high cost, with some experts estimat[...]

How To Avoid Becoming A Medical Malpractice Victim – Part IV: A Second Opinion May Be Your Best Friend (And Save Your Life)

October 2, 2018

We receive medical malpractice inquiries all the time from medical malpractice victims who suffered serious and permanent harm as a result of medical negligence who may have avoided their life-long suffering and immense medical bills if they had only listened to the little voice in their head tellin[...]

Study Finds Medical Error Third Leading Cause Of Death In The United States

May 5, 2016

A study published on May 3, 2016 in the well-respected medical journal BMJ that was authored by researchers at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland determined that medical error was the third leading cause of death in the United States. The contribution of medica[...]

Use Medical Due Diligence To Avoid Medical Mistakes

September 25, 2012

One effective way to reduce your risk of becoming the victim of medical malpractice is to do your research before agreeing to receive medical treatment from a particular doctor or a particular hospital. More and more states in the United States, and the federal government, are making information wit[...]

Large U.S. Drug Wholesaler To Pay $151 Million To Settle Claims

July 31, 2012

McKesson Corp., a large drug wholesaler in the United States, has agreed to pay $151 million to the District of Columbia and 29 U.S. states in order to settle claims that it inflated the prices of certain prescription medications that resulted in overpayments of millions of dollars in reimbursemen[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Case For Endoscopy Resulting In Death

June 11, 2012

On May 12, 2012, the family of a 50-year-old man with muscular dystrophy who died as a result of an endoscopy filed a medical malpractice case against the gastroenterologist who had performed the procedure on the man. The medical malpractice defendants also include the gastroenterologist’s [...]

$50 Million Settlement Paid By Drug Supplier To Nursing Homes

May 14, 2012

A company that provides drugs to nursing homes and other long-term care facilities recently settled federal civil claims against it that alleged that the company dispensed drugs to nursing homes without proper prescriptions for the medications. The $50 million settlement involves allegations that th[...]

PET Scan Use In Diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease

April 26, 2012

One of the greatest fears among the elderly and adults approaching advanced age is the loss of cognitive function and memory due to Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. While it is not uncommon for people without dementia to sometimes forget where they had placed their car keys, oth[...]

Report On Vermont’s Medical Malpractice Proposed Reforms

February 4, 2012

On January 30, 2012, the “Medical Malpractice Reforms Report and Proposal of the [Vermont] Secretary of Administration” (“Report”) was forwarded to the Vermont Legislature to address medical malpractice reform issues/proposals in Vermont. First, Some Vermont Medical Malpract[...]

California Hospital Malpractice Results In Suffocation Death — And $100,000 Fine

February 2, 2012

According to California health regulators, the long-term nursing unit of a California hospital was responsible for the negligent medical treatment and death of an 81-year-old woman in June, 2011, who had a breathing tube in her throat. The investigative report determined that the nurse who was c[...]

Lower Insurance Reimbursements, Not Medical Malpractice Claims, Causing Doctors To Close Their Practices

January 6, 2012

For several years now, the doctors’ lobbyists and the doctors’ medical malpractice insurance companies have argued that medical malpractice claims and “frivolous lawsuits” are causing doctors to flee their practices. Their argument goes something like this: a patient with a[...]

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