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...
Medical Malpractice
Judge hearing evidence in trial involving Kentucky patient
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...
Common causes of medication errors
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...
Kentucky lawmakers continue malpractice revisions
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...
The concept of ‘informed consent’ and medical malpractice
As this blog has discussed, doctors in this state owe Kentuckians several important duties. For one, they must diagnose their patients accurately or, at a minimum, follow the right process for ensuring their diagnoses are correct as often as possible.Obviously, when...
Overview of anesthesia errors and their symptoms
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...
Wrong site surgery is more common than one might think
One of the nightmare scenarios a Kentucky resident might have before going in to surgery is that the doctor in charge is not going to operate on the correct organ or body part. In extreme cases, doctors have even been known to amputate the wrong limb, meaning a...
Hurt by a misdiagnosis? Know your legal options
A previous post on this blog discussed how, although not every misdiagnosis a doctor makes is a case of medical malpractice, many are. This is particularly true when a doctor draws hasty conclusions and acts on them without following an orderly process to get all of...
When is a doctor’s misdiagnosis a medical malpractice case?
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...
