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Medical Malpractice, Surgery Errors & Hospital Injuries:

• 7 Biggest Mistakes of Medical Malpractice [PDF]   
  Description: 7 Biggest Mistakes MD’S Make in Their Medical Malpractice Insurance Coverage
• Report on Contingent Fees In Medical Malpractice Litigation   
  Description: Medical professionals and allied organizations have focused on attorney contingent fees as a way to address medical liability issues. These efforts focus on attorneys fees in successful medical malpractice claims and actions. The medical establishment has been using courtrooms. legislative bodies, and the media to spread the belief that is excessive medical malpractice litigation which is driving up medical costs. In fact, medical malpractice litigation is relatively uncommon. Only about one of fifty valid medical malpractice events in the US is every the subject of a an injury claim.
• More states shred bills for awful medical errors: Patients in 23 states will no longer pay for certain mistakes, hospitals say   
  Description: Hospitals in nearly half the states in the nation now say they won’t bill patients for the worst kind of medical mistakes, including operating on the wrong body part or the wrong person, or giving someone the wrong blood.
• Dangerous bug spreads fast at local hospitals   
  Description: A dangerous intestinal bug that is on the upswing across the country has also become more prevalent in Washington. The bacterium, which most frequently strikes people in hospitals and nursing homes, contributed to 4,100 hospitalizations in the state in 2006, more than twice the number in 2000. That mirrors a nationwide trend, which saw infection rates double at the same time a deadlier strain of the germ emerged.
• Medical Mistakes: What ever happened to "do no harm"?   
  Description: Every doctor makes the promise to “do no harm.” But doctors, nurses, physicians’ assistants, nursing homes, and hospitals do make mistakes. And a shocking report from the Institute of Medicine shows medical mistakes are a common occurrence and pose potentially life-threatening risks for patients. If medical mistakes were counted among the leading causes of death in America, they would be eighth on the list.
• Patients score Washington state's hospitals   
  Description: The ratings were based on surveys of patients admitted to hospitals between October 2006 and June 2007. The results, which come from new, uniform questionnaires required by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, have been publicly available since March 28. The Washington State Hospital Association repackaged the data to make them easier to use.
• Medical Mistakes: 'It's never just one thing' that leads to serious error   
  Description: The mistake calls attention to how far hospitals have to go in preventing medical errors and in learning from the mistakes of others, even though many have made progress in protecting patients within their own institutions.
• Study Finds Doctors Not Reporting Medical Mistakes   
  Description: Almost two-thirds of doctors say they are willing to report medical errors, but many of them just don't do it, a new study finds.
• State tallies incidents disclosed by hospitals   
  Description: The report looks only at the very worst medical errors, in which clear-cut mistakes caused serious injury or death to hospital patients.
• ARTICLE: Preventing Medical Mistakes   
  Description: The Institute of Medicine estimates that 98,000 U.S. patients die each year in health care settings due to medical mistakes; others estimate the numbers may be as high as 145,000.
• ARTICLE: Medicare, Medicaid not paying for medical mistakes   
  Description: As of October 2008, Medicare and Medicaid will no longer pay for medical mistakes and conditions patients acquire in hospitals, like infections.
• ARTICLE: Physicians Want to Learn from Medical Mistakes   
  Description: The perception that U.S. doctors are unwilling to report medical errors and learn how to prevent them is untrue, according to a new study funded by HHS’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
• ARTICLE: Study: Doctors Not Reporting All Medical Errors   
  Description: Researchers from the University of Iowa concluded that medical practitioners fail to report all medical mistakes, with the number being much lower considering the number of instances physicians think should be made known.
• ARTICLE: Medical Mistakes   
  Description: At least 44,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errors and "near misses" in doctors' offices, hospitals and pharmacies.
• ARTICLE: The Real Cost of Medical Mistakes   
  Description: Mistakes by health care providers have a tremendous impact on insurance premiums, absentee rates, and workers' comp costs. With one-third of all premium dollars wasted paying for medical errors, employers are joining forces.
• ARTICLE: Mitigating medical mistakes   
  Description: Health care organizations are calling for immediate action to make health delivery safer in light of a recent revelation that medical errors kill 98,000 U.S. citizens each year.
• ARTICLE: ENT docs admit to medical mistakes   
  Description: A physician-led survey indicates that nearly half of ear, nose and throat specialists have made a recent medical mistake or are aware of one firsthand.
• ARTICLE: Report: Medical mistakes kill thousands each year   
  Description: Medical mistakes kill anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 hospitalized Americans a year, says a new report that calls the errors stunning and demands major changes in the nation's health- care system to protect patients.
• ARTICLE: New Medical Protocol Aimed at Eliminating Surgical Mistakes   
  Description: An estimated 98,000 Americans lose their lives because of medical mistakes each year.
• Medical Malpractice Statistics & Hosptial Errors Facts   
• Emergency Room Statistics   
• FACTS & FIGURES: Medical malpractice statistics for Surgical errors/complications   
  Description: General medical malpractice statistics related to surgery malpractice. Medical malpractice lawsuit payment statistics for surgery malpractice. Medical malpractice lawsuit payment statistics for surgery malpractice. Medical malpractice lawsuit payment statistics for surgery malpractice and nurses.
• ARTICLE: What the state didn't know about doctor, malpractice suit   
  Description: Since 2001, Dr. James H. Greene has been accused in two lawsuits of negligence that resulted in extreme injury or death. In both cases, Greene's employer, Group Health Cooperative, paid significant settlements to the patients' families — one for $5.5 million, the other for $800,000.
• ARTICLE: Life-or-death question, but debate was hidden for years   
  Description: Five years ago in King County, an important and novel question loomed over a wrongful-death lawsuit against Virginia Mason Medical Center.
• ARTICLE: Woman's coma leads to secrecy, silence   
  Description: A diabetic woman, lay in comatose her blood and brain in desperate need of sugar. But the medical device she'd just received instead kept pumping insulin into her body, pumping and pumping, starving her brain and making it more unlikely she would ever wake up.
• ARTICLE: What the state didn't know about doctor, malpractice suit   
  Description: A lawsuit involving a Group Health doctor was improperly sealed by a King County judge. Settled for $5.5 million, the case shows up in a database used by lawyers, but only as Confidential v. Confidential. Also termed "confidential": names of county, defense lawyers, medical experts.
• REPORT ABSTRACT: Highlights Recent Developments Related To Medical Malpractice   
  Description: Washington state: A state malpractice law enacted last year prevents public disclosure of reports of medical errors by individual hospitals, according to a legal opinion sent last week by the state Office of the Attorney General to the state Department of Health, the Seattle Times reports. The department has collected and made public reports of certain "adverse events or incidents" by individual hospitals since 2000. However, the Washington State Hospital Association recently asked the department to end public disclosure of the reports on the grounds that the law prohibited the practice. The department agreed to the request, provided that the office concurred in a legal opinion of the association (Ostrom, Seattle Times, 10/30).
• ARTICLE: Ex-inmate sues state over disfigurement   
  Description: Manning is suing the state Department of Corrections (DOC) and the head prison doctor who Manning says misdiagnosed his disease, a physician who is now practicing in Aberdeen and presents himself as an expert in infectious diseases. Amid the dozens of lawsuits filed by inmates each year, Manning's case, filed in federal court in Tacoma, stands out for its extreme nature.
• ARTICLE: Department of Justice finds "life-threatening" medical problems at King County Jail   
  Description: The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a sweeping condemnation of the operation of the downtown King County Jail, saying inmates' civil rights are being routinely violated through physical and sexual abuse by staff and inadequate medical care.
• ARTICLE: Public disclosure for hospitals, too   
  Description: The Washington State Hospital Association has backed off efforts to hide hospital mistakes from public disclosure.

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