The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine reports that “every nine minutes, someone in a U.S. hospital dies due to a medical diagnosis that was wrong or delayed.” According to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one in ten diagnoses… Read More
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West Virginia Medical Malpractice Death Caused By Bowel Perforation Misdiagnosed By Telephone
When a 67-year-old man who was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed from the chest down went to a local West Virginia hospital to be treated for a urinary tract infection, the last thing he or his family would… Read More
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Connecticut Medical Malpractice Claim For Young Boy’s Blindness
The parents of a 7-year-old boy filed a medical malpractice claim earlier this month against the boy’s pediatrician and others claiming that the boy suffered blindness due to the alleged failure to timely and properly diagnose the boy’s bacterial meningitis. The now 9-year-old boy… Read More
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New Jersey Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Doctor’s Failure To Tell Patient About X-Ray Report
A New Jersey man in his mid-60s was scheduled to undergo a cardiac catheterization procedure. His cardiologist required him to have a chest x-ray before the procedure was done (a standard practice). The chest x-ray was taken; the x-ray report received by… Read More
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Arkansas Medical Malpractice Physician Complaints And Disciplinary Actions
The Arkansas State Medical Board is responsible to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Arkansas with the goal that all citizens are provided with the highest quality health care. The Board is empowered to license and regulate… Read More
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Steve Job’s Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer
Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple, Inc., died earlier this week after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The pancreas is an elongated, tapered gland that is located behind the stomach and is part of the digestive and endocrine system. The pancreas… Read More
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Medical Malpractice Cases In The District Of Columbia (D.C.) – Official Report
During the 2010 calendar year, there were 7 medical malpractice cases tried before a jury to verdicts in the District of Columbia (D.C.), resulting in 5 verdicts in favor of the defendants and 2 verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs. One of… Read More
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Lung Cancer – Statistics
Lung cancer is cancer that begins in the lungs (other cancers that spread to the lungs, called metastases, are not lung cancer). There are two major types of lung cancer: small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer that are diagnosed by… Read More
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Colorectal Cancer Screening
While the rates of new cases of colorectal cancer and death from colorectal cancer in the United States have been decreasing, and more adults are being screened for colorectal cancer, one in three adults in the United States between 50 and… Read More
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Colorectal Cancer – Signs, Symptoms, And Diagnosis
Signs Of Possible Colon Cancer Some of the possible signs of colon cancer include a change in bowel habits; bright red, very dark, or narrower than usual stools; diarrhea; constipation; a feeling that the bowel does not completely empty; frequent gas pain;… Read More
