Everyone from young children to senior citizens have become increasingly glued to their phones — almost anywhere, at any time. Over the years, smartphones have even offered significant benefits for health care providers in terms of improved communication, providing assistance during care, viewing patient information…
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When you accidentally hurt someone, saying “I’m sorry” goes a long way to beginning to repair a damaged relationship or righting a wrong. But in the medical field apologizing for a mistake is yet to become standard practice. Medical malpractice lawsuits have created a system…
Bristol Hospital, a general medical and surgical hospital in Bristol, CT, recently celebrated over a year without a safety error. How did they do it? By implementing a simple but effective method proven successful in other industries. In 2010, board members of the Connecticut Hospital…
Dr. Alexander M. Ortolano, an obstetrician and gynecologist who faces at seven medical negligence lawsuits and whose license was restricted by the state last year, has closed his Richland, Washington practice, Arbor Healthcare for Women. Amid allegations of performing unnecessary procedures and substandard care, Dr.…
Yesterday, I posted an article about a Minnesota verdict and that state’s somewhat pro-citizen approach to medical malpractice reform. I compared Minnesota’s malpractice pay-outs to heavily tort reformed Virginia and North Carolina. As I sit here on a Saturday morning drinking my coffee, it struck…
A Florida woman who refused to leave a hospital when she was discharged died after she was forcibly removed by police. Why the staff cleared Barbara Dawson, 57, whilst the patient maintained that she did not feel well is yet to be fully understood. According…
Dr. William Hedrick, the founder and president at the Centers for Pain Relief in Northern Indiana has been under investigation since 2012 for allegedly using unsafe drug practices when prescribing medication to his patients. There have been numerous complaints of him mixing uncomplimentary drugs and…
Tort reform keeps rearing its ugly head; here is yet another case where a plaintiff was denied full adjudication by a jury of his/her peers because of a legislative capped recovery. A North Carolina jury awarded a woman more than $7.5 million, $3.24 million in…
A family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Houston hospital and doctor alleging a 32-year-old man, and father of three, died because staff was more concerned about getting paid than saving his life. Fighting a fever, on December 26, 2013 the man went…
According to a Missouri Supreme Court ruling, it is too late for families to seek damages against a Missouri hospital which allegedly concealed suspicions that an employee had caused a rash of patient deaths in 2002. Citing the state’s three-year statute of limitations on wrongful-death…
