According to the World Health Organization, there is a lot of room for improvement in the realm of hospital patient safety. Although many people fear flying in an airplane, research by the WHO indicates that you are far more likely to be injured in a hospital than you are in a jumbo jet soaring 38,000 […]
Each year, thousands of children in Pennsylvania and across the United States are afflicted with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a devastating birth injury that is brought about by brain damage, which in turn harms a child’s ability to control his or her muscles. Cerebral palsy is caused by a variety of medical complications that […]
A serious medical malpractice suit was recently settled for $4.6 million. The case involved the circumcision of a one-week-old boy. The defendant was the maker of a clamp that was used in the procedure. The doctor who performed the operation was originally a defendant, but the case against him was later dropped. The parents of […]
When the family of newborn twins left the hospital three years ago after the boys’ birth, the parents were still in shock that one of the infants had suffered brain damage. Both boys had been developing normally before birth, and one twin had no brain damage and no developmental problems. How then could the other twin […]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is not having a good week when it comes to news about medical malpractice. First there was a report regarding unsanitized colonoscopy equipment that infected patients, and now there has been a medical malpractice settlement of nearly one million dollars for a patient who lost an eye in a particularly gruesome way. […]
Colonoscopy errors are, just by the nature of the procedure, particularly disturbing, since simply undergoing a colonoscopy leaves many patients feeling unusually vulnerable. For that reason, hospital negligence that makes a colonoscopy unacceptably dangerous is extremely harmful, both physically and psychologically. This blog has reported on colonoscopy errors in the past, but the most recent reports of errors that […]
Frequently when the subject of medication errors is examined, experts inside and outside of the health care field recommend increased use of electronic prescriptions. The recommendation makes sense when one considers that illegible handwriting by doctors can dramatically increase the likelihood of a pharmacy or prescription error when a prescription is filled. Many hospitals, doctors’ offices and […]
A recent jury verdict found that a victim of medical malpractice should receive more than $3.14 million in damages caused by a midwife when the baby victim was born. The then-baby girl is now ten years old, and suffers from severe mental disabilities. She is still fed through a feeding tube, and is confined to […]
3rd Circuit OKs State Liens On Medicaid Patient Awards On behalf of a minor Plaintiff, identified as A.H., Veronica Richards claimed that DPW’s practice of collecting the cost of medical care above the actual fees paid is unfair to victims of medical negligence. DPW enrolled A.H. in a managed care organization (MCO) and paid actual fees […]
