The family of a Texas woman who died from a brain hemorrhage has filed a lawsuit against Arlington Memorial Hospital, where she first received emergency care. On December 14, the healthy 32-year-old mother of two young children suffered a seizure in her home. Her husband…
Lavern Wilkinson was a 42-year-old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after an ER doctor at Kings County Hospital said her EKG and chest x-rays were normal and told to take Motrin for pain. The chest X-ray, in…
Doctors and other healthcare providers hold people’s lives in their hands every day. While most take that responsibility extremely seriously, we all know health care is not as safe as it should be. Studies show that an alarming number of patients are harmed by medical…
Missouri lawmakers have had their eyes on reinstating liability limits for medical malpractice cases ever since the state Supreme Court struck down an existing cap on damages in the summer of 2012. That ruling came in a case involving a baby that was born with…
A Michigan jury awarded the family of an 81-year-old woman $21 million in a lawsuit against Oakwood Hospital. The family claimed the hospital mistakenly operated on her brain in January 2012 when she was supposed to have a simple jaw alignment. She was already in…
Someone goes into the hospital to get better and instead comes out with a potentially deadly “superbug” infection. It shouldn’t happen, but it does, and it seems to be on an upward spiral. Nearly 180 patients at UCLA’s Ronald Reagan Medical Center may have been…
While no pregnancy comes with a guarantee, there are many tests to help identify abnormalities or genetic disorders. What happens when the tests results are wrong, read incorrectly, or information is incorrectly typed into a report? After three miscarriages, doctors finally told “Colleen” she had…
Medical misdiagnosis is a serious problem in our health care system. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, diagnoses that are wrong, missed or delayed affect 10 to 20 percent of all medical cases. That’s a higher rate than drug errors or wrong-site…
A Milwaukee County judge has ruled that the state’s onerous tort reform statute does not apply in the case of a $25.3 million recovery for a woman who lost her arms and legs due to medical malpractice. On May 24, 2011, a 53-year-old mother of…
Have you ever gone shopping only to arrive home and find you did not get what you paid for? Although an inconvenience, you probably went back to the store for the correct item. An Ohio lesbian couple had a similar situation – what they purchased…