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Negligent Referrals—When Your Doctor Is Liable For Failing To Send You To An Expert

July 20, 2015
Not every doctor can be an expert in every specialty. Sometimes, a particular health issue or problem may require an expert. When a doctor fails to refer a patient to a specialist, can he or she be liable if that patient’s condition worsens? Physician Standard of Care When a doctor is sued for medical malpractice...

When Medical Malpractice Becomes Murder: Settlement, Charges Pending In Tainted Steroid Medication Scandal

July 17, 2015,
The owner of a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company and his head pharmacists are facing 25 counts of murder across seven states after tainted steroids sold by the company caused 64 deaths and sickened hundreds of people across the country in 2012. Barry Cadden, the owner of New England Compounding Center (NECC), and head pharmacist Glenn Adam...

Surgery Complications After Decades–25 Year Old Injured By Tubing Left In Heart After Surgery As Infant

July 16, 2015
More than a dozen times a day, doctors around the country sew up a patient on the operating table with a sponge, surgical instrument, or other foreign object left inside. Sometimes these objects make themselves known quickly, and other times they may take decades to cause problems. Adam Walton was just three years old in...

$100 Million Verdict In Vaginal Mesh Case Highlights Dangers Of Defective Medical Devices

July 14, 2015
A 51-year-old Delaware woman received a verdict of $100 million after a jury found that Boston Scientific Corp. had designed faulty vaginal mesh inserts which left women in constant pain. The verdict is the largest individual judgment thus far against Boston Scientific. In April, the company agreed to pay $119 million to settle over 3,000...

Rise Of The Super Bug: When Your Hospital’s Hygiene Practices Spread Disease

July 9, 2015
In February, the UCLA Medical Center made national news after an outbreak of a bacteria known as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or CRE. The bacteria, which is resistant to antibiotics, spread after a contaminated endoscope was used on several patients. Two people died, and five more were infected. When a hospital is responsible for spreading a disease...

California Anesthesiologist Disciplined For Using Cell Phone During Patient’s Death

July 8, 2015
An anesthesiologist has been disciplined by the Medical Board of California and placed on probation for three years after contributing to the death of a dental patient. According to the Board, Dr. Barry Lynn Friedberg gave anesthesia to 57-year-old Paula Kane during a dental procedure. He did not have a permit to administer anesthesia in...

Federal Judge Orders VA Medical Center To Pay $21M After Failing To Prevent Second Stroke

July 7, 2015
A Veterans’ Affairs medical center in New Hampshire was recently ordered to pay the state’s largest ever personal injury judgment to a disabled veteran after the hospital failed to prevent a second stroke. A 60-year-old Navy veteran sought medical help in 2010 after experiencing partial blindness and headaches. Six weeks later, he suffered another stroke...

Female Heart Attack Patients More Susceptible To Misdiagnosis, Lack Of Treatment

July 6, 2015
When you think of the classic heart attack symptoms, chances are that you think of a numb or tingly left arm, or of a person clutching in pain at their chest. However, these are only the classic heart attack symptoms in men. Women who have heart attacks tend to experience them much differently. Rather than...

Chronic Brain Bleeds Set To Increase Over Next 15 Years As Population Ages

July 1, 2015, ,
It is no secret that the American population is aging. As the baby boomers reach retirement age and beyond, the average age of the population of the United States will dramatically increase, and our country’s most urgent medical needs will change. A study by the Journal of Neurosurgery indicates that the country’s medical practice is...

Doctors Inform Only 45% Of Medicare Patients That They Have Alzheimer’s Disease, According To New Study

June 30, 2015
The only thing worse than having an incurable, degenerative brain disease may be not knowing that you have it. According to a new study conducted by the Alzheimer’s Association, only 45% of Medicare patients who have Alzheimer’s were informed by their doctors of their diagnosis. In comparison, doctors told 90% of Medicare patients with cancer...
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