Month: January 1970

In an article for the Boston Globe this week, a doctor discusses the problems with medical malpractice and negligence lawsuits. The article describes the sad story of a woman who gave birth to premature twins. One of the twins died, due to doctors failing to recognize...

In one of the first cases involving Johnson & Johnson's vaginal mesh implant, a jury awarded a woman $11.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages for injuries caused by their Gynecare Prolift mesh implant. The vaginal mesh implant was supposed to provide...

At the University of Kentucky Healthcare's A.B. Chandler Medical Center, it's Paula Holbrook's job as the director of risk management and clinical risk to capture all of the "near misses, the little things that don't reach the patient" and turn it into a learning...

We read a lot about car accidents and even though more than 30,000 people are killed every year in motor vehicle accidents, most people, we suspect never think it will happen to them. Occasional high-profile accidents, like the one that killed Princess Diana in Paris...

Modern medicine is a complex process. No longer are you examined by your family doctor, who may have been overseeing your care for decades. Especially in a hospital, multiple specialists may see you in a short period. None of these doctors, nurses or other health care...

Few fears are greater than the dread of burying your child. You expect they will long outlive you, and the prospect of choosing a burial plot and casket for your child is virtually unimaginable for most parents. Sadly, parents of a 17-year-old girl from Maryland had...

We often hear of medical malpractice or nursing home negligence cases settling, and often they are characterized as if most of these cases are frivolous lawsuits and are settled by the nursing home or hospital to make them go away and save legal fees. Then there are...

A family is suing a local nursing home after making a horrible and shocking discovery in their loved one's ear. The 92-year-old woman was complaining of wax build up in her ear, which turned into a case of nursing home neglect when doctors found and removed 57 maggots...

A study released this month revealed that alarms in hospital beds designed to keep patients from getting up unattended and falling are largely ineffective. Employees waiting for alarms to go off instead of routinely observing patients could be considered a form of...

We have all heard the phrase, "to err is human," at some point in our lives, and have found it to be true many times. While human error is inevitable, and is most often times forgiven, medical errors are preventable and unacceptable. Surgical errors have gained so...