It is our intention to help to preserve the legal rights of medical malpractice victims by educating our readers as to what their rights may actually be; what laws may apply; how frequent similar accidents occur; who may be legally at fault; time limits (statute of limitations) for taking action; and so on. It is our hope that by doing so, medical malpractice victim/survivors will gain a better understanding of their own legal rights and more wrongdoers will be held accountable.
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Johnson & Johnson to Discontinue Selling Dangerous Surgical ImplantsPelvic organ prolapse is a troubling condition that causes the pelvic organs to slip out of place and typically requires corrective surgery that has, in recent years, included the application of transvaginal surgical mesh
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Medical Malpractice Study: Doctors Have our Trust, but Should They?As statistics have shown, medical malpractice is a risk that is all too real for the average American citizen – approximately 180,000 Medicare patients die each year because of healthcare gone awry, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Injuries from Anesthesia are Preventable, Yet CommonAnesthesia can be a blessing to any patient that has to undergo a complex surgery or medical procedure. It allows the patient to go into a reversible state of unconsciousness and disable responsiveness and skeletal muscle reflexes so that a surgical procedure can be performed without any pain or discomfort and emerge from that state without any complications.
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Medical Mistakes: How Do Surgical Sponges Get Left Inside Patient?We’ve recently begun exploring the concept of “never events,” a term for intolerable medical mistakes that take place in a healthcare setting. And while experts say these particular medical mistakes are absolutely inexcusable, they manage to occur frequently enough to cause concern – according to a study published in the December 2012 issue of Surgery, egregious medical mistakes occur almost 80 times every week in the U.S.
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Minors’ Medical Malpractice Claims No Longer Tolled after Court RulingIn Schroeder v. Weighall, M.D., Washington State Supreme Court ruled Jan. 16 RCW 4.16.190(2) is unconstitutional & minors' malpractice claims no longer tolled
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Jury Awards $1 Million to Family of Toddler with Surgical SouvenirA King County jury on December 19 awarded a $1 million verdict against a Swedish Hospital doctor after they found he was responsible for leaving a surgical wire inside of a toddler
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Why Are Doctors Performing Unnecessary Surgeries on Patients?A recent study from USA Today revealed that doctors subject tens of thousands of patients to unnecessary surgeries every year. Medical negligence is a big problem
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Diagnostic Errors Make Up Large Percentage of Medical Malpractice ClaimsA study published by Johns Hopkins University shows that diagnostic errors make up a very large percentage of medical malpractice claims, are costly and deadly
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Hospitals Are More Profitable When They Make Medical MistakesA recent report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests that hospitals who commit surgical errors make more money and are more profitable
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Hospital Error Reports Now Available OnlineIn the past, it hasn’t been easy for the public to access the results of inspection reports about violations concerning medical errors in hospitals throughout the United States.
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Pierce County Doctor Indicted on Healthcare FraudIn 2011, a 63-year-old Pierce County oncologist and his wife were indicted on more than 20 counts of healthcare fraud, obstruction of justice and money laundering
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CDC Report Shows Increase in Child Birth ComplicationsWhen it comes to healthcare – and more specifically, the process of giving birth to a child – we Americans tend to think we’re better off than most countries in the world.