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Malpractice can occur at any point in your treatment plan causing serious side effects. The degree to which a medical professional harmed you by their poor practices differs significantly from one...

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So today I performed a Google search (does anybody even read the newspaper anymore?) for a few different terms related to personal injury law. I found some of the typical auto accident reports,...

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We’ve all heard those horrible medical malpractice stories before. Could they possibly be true? Do doctors really leave things in their patients after surgery? The answer is a resounding YES. I...

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Hospitals around the country have come together to say they will no longer bill patients for their medical mistakes. Tennessee is one state out of 23 that has approved the non-payment policies for...

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The daughter of a woman who died at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital Center has called for the criminal prosecution of the workers who did nothing to help. Esman Green turned over and over on the...

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Ex-nurse and retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is believed to have spread Hepatitis C to 15 military service members or their relatives at El Paso's William Beaumont Army Medical Center by diverting painkiller from the patients to himself. Though details are unclear, an outbreak of Hepatitis C was reported at the hospital in 2004, and Jones tested positive for the blood-borne disease. It...

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About 24 hours after a routine corrective breast surgery on Friday, an 18-year-old Florida teen passed away. Two hours into her surgery, Stephanie Kuleba was rushed to the Delray medical Center to correct asymmetrical breasts and inverted areola, according to the Associated Press news brief. There is little additional information at this time and the family's attorney said Tuesday that it was...

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An interesting column by Senator Bob Hagedorn in the Rocky Mountain News looks at what he considers limitations and shortcomings of the medical malpractice systems in the state, as well as the nation, and compares those systems to one in place in New Zealand.Some of his outlined shortfalls in what he refers to as a lawsuit-based status quo include: Physicians are poorly policed with little...

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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...

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While Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly are lucky that their twins are still with them today after a hospital-administered overdose of an adult blood thinner had them fighting for life in November, not all victims of medical mistakes are so lucky. In fact, according to a 2000 Food and Drug Administration article, 44,000-98,000 Americans die each year not from the medical conditions they checked in...

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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...

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A recent Internet survey by the American College of Chest Physicians' Sleep Institute (ACCP) found that most physicians are probably not getting enough sleep for top performance at work.As a patient, anxiety may affect your ability to sleep the night before a medical procedure - we all get a little nervous, right? What if you knew your doctor didn't get much sleep either? The average physician...

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Dr. Eric Leefmans is expected to appeal a $1.75 million verdict awarded to a patient of the surgeon who sued for medical malpractice during treatment following a 2003 automobile accident.Attorney Emily Rice of Boston said her client, Dr. Eric Leefmans, plans to appeal a $1.75 million-plus-interest medical malpractice verdict issued by a New Hampshire Court last week. The plaintiff was...

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Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer was awarded $890,000 after a West Palm Beach jury found an ophthalmologist liable for damaging his vision. After a two-week trial, it took a jury about four hours to decide Palmer should receive the money for suffering, lost wages and mental and physical pain. The jury awarded Palmer $327,000 in lost earnings and $563,000 in pain and suffering.Palmer sued his...

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Adriane Springs, the wife of former Cowboys running back Ron Springs, has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in state district court after her husband, Ron Springs, 51, fell into a coma in October during a surgical procedure to have a cyst removed from his elbow and reportedly remains in an incapacitated state. According to published reports, named in the lawsuit, which is seeking unspecified...

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