In August 2007, a Pennsylvania man underwent a coronary revascularization procedure at a Philadelphia hospital. He died shortly after the surgery. In June 2010, the family received an anonymous tip which revealed what appeared to be medical malpractice, gross misconduct and an egregious violation of patient privacy. Not only did appalling negligence by the cardiac surgeon […]
Just last week this blog was discussing the types of medical malpractice that stand out in patients’ minds as being particularly horrific. The top of that list included amputating or operating on the wrong limb or body part. Now a fresh story has hit the news about a surgeon who operated on the wrong eye of […]
There are many cases of medical malpractice that arise from a health care provider making an inexcusable mistake, or from a failure to take action when they should have. These may be the most typical types of medical malpractice, but there are many others. For instance, a doctor on the West Coast is currently facing discipline before her state […]
In the past couple days in Erie County, juries for two separate medical negligence cases returned substantial verdicts. The first verdict on Wednesday awarded $21.6 million dollars to the mother of a 4 ½ year boy with cerebral palsy. This was the largest verdict in Erie County’s history, almost 5 times as high as the […]
Certain types of medical errors stand out in patients’ minds as particularly disturbing. Near the top of the list would have to be amputating the wrong limb or transplanting the wrong organ. Early this year, a patient had a very close call when she received a transplant of the correct type of organ – a kidney – […]
Between 2004 and 2008 the number of patients who had to receive treatment in a hospital because of a medication error increased by more than fifty percent. In 2004, the number of people who were injured or got sick because they were given the wrong dose or the wrong type of medication was 1.2 million. […]
A trial recently began in the case of a couple suing a hospital that they say failed to stop a physician’s assistant from stealing pain medication. The lawsuit alleges that the theft occurred while the wife was in labor delivering the couple’s baby daughter, and that the physician’s assistant took the painkillers from the wife’s epidural pump. […]
Medical malpractice attorneys in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are very aware of the shocking number of injuries, infections and other types of harm patients suffer in hospitals. We also know that the majority of these events may go unreported. That conclusion is supported by a study recently published in the journal Health Affairs. The researchers found that […]
A medical malpractice lawsuit was recently filed by two heartbroken parents whose six-week-old son died at a hospital. While in the hospital’s care, the boy was given an intravenous solution that allegedly contained sixty times the prescribed dose of sodium ordered by a physician. The baby boy had been born one month and nine days earlier […]
A woman who had cosmetic surgery performed on her eyes found that after the procedure she was unable to shut her eyes or blink. She sued the surgeon for medical malpractice, and this week she received a jury award of $115,000 in damages. The procedure that was performed is called a blepharoplasty. In this procedure, […]
