If your baby has suffered brain damage a the hands of a negligent doctor, you have just been thrust into a war zone. So called litigation literature is just one of the many weapons doctors wield to protect themselves when they make mistakes and to torpedo your child’s chances of ever achieving some semblance of [...]
Medical malpractice trial lawyers and their injured clients experience first hand the pain and injustice of a too common practice of doctors using misleading junk medical studies to avoid paying for their mistakes. Often they get away with it.
Not this time. Not in the case of Salvant v. State in which judges ruled that doctors [...]
Of all the pain that you anticipated as a woman preparing for childbirth, you probably never imagined that a torn pubic symphysis was a possibility. To be sure, a torn pubic symphysis is a very rare occurrence and the condition really was not something you should have been worrying about. However when it happens, you [...]
In November of 2009, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals ruled that Shands Teaching Hospital had a legal duty to protect Michelle Herndon from Oliver O’Quinn, a surgical nurse with a history of stealing controlled substances. O’Quinn murdered Herndon by injecting her with dangerous drugs. Propofol, Midazolam and Estomidate are available only by prescription.
At the [...]
Ask a doctor’s office to hand over a complete copy of your medical records and watch them demur, citing state laws and vague hospital policies. Jamie Heywood, featured in October’s issue of Wired magazine, wants such obstacles legislated out of existence. He’s on a quest to make medical records as easy to access as ordering [...]