Medical Malpractice

Residents are medical school graduates who typically participate in graduate medical programs and train in specialized fields of medicine. It may be said they are both student and healthcare provider. Although they are not yet board eligible or board-certified...

A medical malpractice trial that involves a patient from Northern Kentucky and several hospitals in the greater Cincinnati area, which includes parts of Northern Kentucky has begun. The doctor who is the defendant in this trial is reportedly evading criminal...

Modern medicine relies heavily on the use of drugs to cure a patient's ailments or, at least, to make the patient's symptoms more bearable. This is true to such an extent that a Kentucky resident almost expects to receive, or be told to take, some type of medicine...

The Kentucky Legislature is considering a measure that critics say will further erode Kentucky's protections for victims of medical malpractice.Recently, the Kentucky Legislature passed a law requiring malpractice claims to be reviewed by a panel of experts for an...

Next to the surgeon, one could argue that the most important medical professional in the operating room is the anesthesiologist. While Kentucky residents might not realize it, this doctor administers very potent, and potentially dangerous, drugs to keep a patient...

Those Kentuckians who work in the medical field know that the practice of medicine still involves some amount of guesswork. As a result, doctors and other medical professionals have some leeway to figure out what is wrong with their patients, even if that process...