Medical Malpractice

• Price Gouging at Health Care Companies? Say it Ain't So!!!

  Robert Wolf | June 21, 2006 1:28 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Haven't we all heard the rhetoric (and read my previous blog on the subject, no less) about how Plaintiff's attorneys and "greedy patients" are to blame for the rising cost of health care? Sure, there are countless victims of medical malpractice, but if they seek any type of recovery, then it's suddenly their fault that the rest of us face increased medical expenses? Well, as it turns out,...

• Not Surprising - Nursing Homes are Still Deficient

  Staff Writer | January 17, 2006 8:11 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  As reported in the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/politics/16nurses.html?th&emc=th.Does it surprise you that state inspectors often over look serious deficiencies in nursing homes. From a new report from the General Accountability Office, Congressional investigators report that state inspectors either miss serious problems or just do not report the severity of the problems...

• Tenet HealthCare Settles $215 Million Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

  Robert Wolf | January 16, 2006 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Hospital chain Tenet Helathcare Corp, a publically-traded health care company, announced a deal to settle class-action lawsuits for $215 million, mostly regarding unnecessary surgeries occurring at one of its California hospitals. There are "bigger fish still to fry," said Ryan Beck analyst Robert Mains. "The securities litigation, in our view, was a relatively small item."The deal, which...

• Medical Malpractice Attorney in Dallas: What You Should Know

  Jeff Rasansky | December 02, 2008 5:55 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Not everyone can afford to spend dollars on pursuing their cases in courts. However, lack of money should not become a deterrent in getting justice. That’s why there are medical malpractice...

• Patient Safety Errors Kill More Than 238,000

  Jeff Rasansky | April 08, 2008 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The deaths of 238,337 U.S. Medicare patients from 2004 through 2006 could have potentially been prevented if not for patient safety errors. The total number of deaths among patients who had been...

• Male Infant Death More Likely

  RLF Staff | March 25, 2008 9:44 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Boys have about a 20 percent higher chance of dying by the age of one than girls, according to research released Monday. Though the gap has lessened in the past decades because of medical practices like increased Caesarean sections and intensive care units for premature babies, there is still a disparity between the genders. Some of this may be attributed to the data showing that boys are 60...

• Transplant Doctor Accused of Speeding Death to Get Organs

  RLF Staff | March 21, 2008 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  In the first case of its kind in the United States, a San Francisco transplant surgeon will go to trial on one count of felony dependent adult abuse for hastening the death of a comatose patient in order to harvest his organs sooner. Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was sent by his employer as part of the California Transplant Donor Network to perform the transplants after the mother of 26-year-old Ruben...

• John Ritter's Doctors Cleared in Malpractice Case

  RLF Staff | March 14, 2008 4:38 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  After his death from a torn aorta in 2003, the widow and children of actor John Ritter filed a lawsuit against his cardiologist and radiologist for medical negligence. Radiologist Matthew Lotysch was cleared today of the claims that he had failed to spot an enlargement of the aorta in a body scan done in 2001 - two years prior to Ritter's death. Additionally, Cardiologist Joseph Lee was cleared...

• Botox for Cerebral Palsy Goes Under Review

  RLF Staff | February 11, 2008 6:46 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Washington officials is warning doctors about using Botox for cerebral palsy children. Botox is most commonly used on adults to smooth out wrinkles, but has also shown positive results in chilrden with cerebral palsy. Although the government has never officially approved botox injections to treat cerebral palsy, it has been shown to increase mobility in children and adults with cerebral...

• Surgical Tools Left in Patients Account for Thousands of Injuries

  RLF Staff | January 17, 2008 7:43 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  According to the FDA and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), about 2500 surgery patients leave the hospital with surgical devices such as clamps, and tweezers or pieces of surgical devices that unintentionally fell off during surgery. The CDRH receives about 1000 reports annually of pieces of medical devices found inside surgery patients and about 1,500 surgery patients are...