The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety’s June 2019 report entitled “The Financial and Human Cost of Medical Error … and how Massachusetts can lead the way on patient safety” found “almost 62,000 medical errors [in Massachusetts], which were responsible… Read More
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How To Avoid Becoming A Medical Malpractice Victim – Part II: Get Your Medical Records, Read Them Carefully, And Get Them Corrected, If Necessary
Victims of medical malpractice are most often harmed through no fault of their own. Yet some of the victims of medical negligence may have avoided their serious injuries if they had requested and obtained a copy of their medical records,… Read More
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Study Found Intensive Attending Physician Supervision Of Residents Did Not Result In Significant Reduction In Medical Errors
A study published online on June 4, 2018 in JAMA Internal Medicine concluded, “Increased direct attending physician supervision did not significantly reduce the medical error rate. In designing morning work rounds, residency programs should reconsider their balance of patient safety,… Read More
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Iowa Patient Safety Study Reports On Iowans’ Views On Medical Errors
The Heartland Health Research Institute published in December 2017 the results of its Iowa Patient Safety Study that consisted of approximately 115 questions asked of randomly-selected Iowans about their views and experiences while interacting with Iowa healthcare providers. The study,… Read More
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New Patient Safety Grades For U.S. Hospitals
On October 31, 2017, The Leapfrog Group, which describes itself as a nonprofit organization committed to driving quality, safety, and transparency in the U.S. health system, issued its Fall 2017 The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades that assigns the letter grades… Read More
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21% Of Americans Have Had Personal Experience With Medical Errors
The results of a survey that was released on September 28, 2017 found that 21% of adults in the United States report having personally experienced a medical error. The national survey conducted by the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute and NORC… Read More
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U.S. Senator Boxer’s Office Issues “Medical Errors” Report
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Office recently issued a report entitled “Medical Errors” that discusses “the most common and devastating medical errors.” In July 2013, Senator Boxer contacted Partnership for Patients (a public-private partnership funded through the Affordable Care Act), to inquire… Read More
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Texas Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Surgeon’s Disability
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… Read More
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Florida Legislature Passes Bill To Pay Medical Malpractice Verdict
Back in 2007, a Florida medical malpractice jury awarded almost $31 million to a child and his parents for the child’s birth injuries that included cerebral palsy and other serious injuries that the jury determined were the result of medical malpractice… Read More
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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!
Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might… Read More
