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The scandal of the faulty, badly made breast implants from French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) continues with the arrest of Jean-Claude Mas, 72, who according to police has been held at his home in Six-Fours-les-Plages in the South of France… View full post on Litigation / Medical Malpractice News From Medical . . . → Read More: Breast Implant Boss Arrested Question by Grasshopper: Is failure to diagnose sagittal synostosis grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit? Best answer: Answer by ? G??? ? ????s ?If it were me, I would let it go. Peace and Blessings What do you think? . . . → Read More: Is failure to diagnose sagittal synostosis grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit? Given that many medical tests are nowadays rapidly performed at the patient’s bedside compared with tests that required sending samples to a laboratory and waiting for results, last month’s special issue of Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology reveals that as more of these point-of-care testing (POCT) technologies are integrated into patient care, car… View full post on Litigation / Medical Malpractice News From Medical . . . → Read More: Point-Of-Care Testing, Avoiding Medical Errors A report of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, warns that using neuroscientific findings as evidence in a court of law at the present moment of time should be approached with great caution, even though scientists growing knowledge of the brain certainly will impact the law in the future… View full post on Litigation / Medical Malpractice News From Medical . . . → Read More: Royal Society Cautions Against Premature Legal Applications Of Neuroscience Article by Amy Nutt Every year, medical malpractice is a serious problem for thousands of people across the country. Medical malpractice occurs when a heath care professional fails to provide a patient with a standard quality of care which results in injury or harm to the patient. Medical malpractice can take place in any health facility by any type of medical personnel that can include doctors, nurses, hospital workers, dentists, eye doctors, surgeons,etc. An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) noted that ‘every year in the United States 12,000 patient deaths occurred due to unnecessary surgery, 7,000 deaths were caused by medication errors in hospitals, and 20,000 deaths resulted from other errors in hospitals.’ The Journal of the American Association for Justice stated that a decade ago ‘as many as 98,000 people died every year from preventable medical errors, costing the nation an estimated $ 29 billion dollars.’ Medical malpractice can result from a number types of mistakes such as anesthesia errors, birth errors, defective drugs, or products, medical experimentation, improper diagnosis, medication errors, nursing home abuse, surgical errors, wrongful death, failing to take appropriate medical action, and much more. Medical malpractice can negatively affect all aspects of one’s life, from the physical and emotional damage to serious financial hardships. Such hardships can include: - Loss of Work- Loss . . . → Read More: Negative Effects of Medical Malpractice It is illegal to sell unapproved diet products that make unsupported claims, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has warned seven companies which are selling “homeopathic HCG weight-loss drugs. The marketers of these products tell users to follow an extremely restricted and potentially dangerous diet… View full post on Litigation / Medical Malpractice News From Medical . . . → Read More: HCG Diet Products Illegal, FDA Warns Seven Companies Article by Michael Porto When you are looking at or comparing different types of Florida medical malpractice insurance coverage, it is very common to be overwhelmed with how it works. It is almost essential for all medical professionals to carry some kind of medical malpractice insurance in order to protect themselves from any kind of lawsuit. In Florida for example, almost 6 percent of medical professionals do not have any kind of malpractice insurance coverage. Rates of reliable medical malpractice insurance coverage in Florida tends to vary depending on their field of work, or “scope”. This makes it extremely difficult for medical professionals to have any idea what kind of coverage they can expect from different companies. The best way to go about comparing professional medical malpractice insurance coverage rates is to look at similar rates in the same scope as well as geographic location. These two factors play the largest role in determining costs and coverage of medical malpractice insurance. For example, if you are are surgeon looking for help in Tampa, FL, your new medical malpractice insurance coverage rates will be much different from a heart specialist in Seattle, Washington. A recent problem in medical professions across the country is the rising medical malpractice insurance coverage premiums. The term, “crisis”, has been used frequently to describe the problem of rising . . . → Read More: Florida Medical Malpractice Insurance Coverage – Is It Important? Four former executives of Synthes Inc. have been sentenced to prison for carrying out human medical trials illegally in which three participants lost their lives. US prosecutors had been seeking 1-year prison sentences for “human experimentation”… View full post on Litigation / Medical Malpractice News From Medical . . . → Read More: Illegal Human Study Left Three Patients Dead – Four Defendants Get Prison Sentences Question by Irish07: Where can i report a doctor for medical malpractice? Best answer: Answer by ??? KeitoThat would depend on what it is exactly that you’re trying to report…. There really isnt a non-legal place to report a doctor. If you want to sue for damages, bring charges against the doctor and his/her malpractice insurance company will handle arbitration with your lawyer. Otherwise, the best you can do is file a complaint in your state’s medical board. Typically they will have a section for things like that. An inquiry will be launched and the doctor notified etc. What do you think? . . . → Read More: Where can i report a doctor for medical malpractice? Because clinical evaluation often depends on diagnostic tests, diagnostic physicians have a responsibility to notify referring clinicians when test results reveal urgent or unexpected findings… View full post on Litigation / Medical Malpractice News From Medical . . . → Read More: Communication Failures Put Diagnostic Physicians At Increased Risk For Medical Malpractice Claims |
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