Ad aired to fight caps on medical malpractice
Personal injury lawyers still cringe when they recall 2004’s eye-catching television ads of doctors walking out of town along the highway, fleeing from high malpractice insurance costs. A congressional...
View ArticleParents of girl who died during breast surgery call for change
The parents of an 18-year-old suburban Boca Raton cheerleader who died last year during breast-augmentation surgery called Wednesday for a ban on the use of general anesthesia at outpatient surgical...
View ArticleVirginia Doctor Gets Year in Prison for Prescription Scam
A Virginia doctor who wrote tens of thousands of prescriptions for muscle relaxants and other drugs over the Internet without meeting or examining the patients has been sentenced to a year and a day in...
View ArticleMany Doctors Don’t Always Report Errors, Incompetent Colleagues
A survey in the December 4 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that while most doctors believe in the tenets of medical professionalism, there’s a gap between these standards and...
View Article$2.25 Million Verdict Against Fairfax Surgeon
According to published reports, a Fairfax Circuit Court jury has awarded the estate of a former employee of Inova Fair Oaks Hospital nearly $2.25 million dollars following and operation to repair a...
View ArticleFederal Suit Filed Against DePuy Orthopaedics/Johnson & Johnson Over Recalled...
Sandra Smith filed suit today in the federal court assigned to handle the multi-district litigation over a failed hip replacement system from Johnson & Johnson, Inc., and DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.,...
View ArticlePopular Colorectal Cancer Drug May Cause Permanent Nerve Damage
Oxaliplatin, a platinum-based anticancer drug that’s made enormous headway in recent years against colorectal cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after...
View ArticleHuge Malpractice Payouts Add Little to Health Care’s Rising Costs
Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing and...
View ArticleStudy Shows Misdiagnoses Drive Primary Care Malpractice Claims in Massachusetts
Most of the primary care malpractice claims filed in Massachusetts are related to alleged misdiagnoses, according to study by Gordon D. Schiff, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and...
View ArticleObstetric Malpractice Claims Dip When Hospitals Stress Patient Safety
A Connecticut hospital saw a 50% drop in malpractice liability claims and payments when it made patient safety initiatives a priority by training doctors and nurses to improve teamwork and...
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