State Medical Boards Are Failing Patients
August 25, 2013
An investigation report appearing in USA TODAY on August 20, 2013 found that thousands of doctors throughout the United States who lost their clinical privileges at hospitals and other medical facilities due to their misconduct were not punished by the state medical boards that were responsible fo[...]
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Falsified Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Cases
August 16, 2013
Few things make medical malpractice juries seeth with anger more than evidence that a patient’s medical records were falsified sometime after the alleged incident of medical malpractice so that the records appear to support that the medical malpractice defendant was not negligent in the care[...]
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Missouri $6.4 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Stroke
July 16, 2013
A Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife $6.4 million on July 5, 2013 for a stroke the man suffered in 2007. The basis for the man’s medical malpractice lawsuit was his primary care physician’s failure to diagnosis and treat his bacterial infection that led to a str[...]
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New York State-Operated Hospital Killed Patient With Impunity
July 15, 2013
On March 7, 2013, a 41-year-old single mother of a mentally disabled teenage daughter died after her over two-year battle with lung cancer that was treatable and curable had a New York state-operated hospital not committed medical malpractice in 2010. When the woman arrived at the emergency roo[...]
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Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict
July 6, 2013
On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]
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