Medical malpractice
Think Twice Before You Plan Plastic Surgery At a Strip Mall
On May 21, 2010, Amanda Lawson entered the Southeast Laser & Plastic surgery clinic in Waycross, Georgia to receive breast augmentation surgery. The shopping center clinic advertised its cosmetic procedures in the local paper and even offered a discount coupon. Lawson paid $3,500 and underwent the four hour procedure. A month later, she returned to […]
In the News: Mom Sues Walgreen’s Over Son’s Vicodin Overdose
A Chicago mom is suing Walgreens for negligence over the death of her son, who died of a Vicodin overdose in August 2012. The suit claims that the doctor of John P. Oles, 29, had contacted Walgreen’s in 2010, requesting that pharmacists refrain from filling any prescriptions for Oles received from other doctors. According to […]
Pharmaceutical Errors
More than 1.5 million people are injured each year in the U.S. due to medication errors, and about 7,000 are killed. When doctors or pharmacists makes a mistake with prescription medications, the consequences can be fatal. Claims for prescription errors are often based on simple negligence, but can be attributed to professional malpractice. The following […]
Understanding Your Rights in Medical Care
When a loved one is in need of medical care, it is important to research all the options and choose a provider you feel comfortable with. Unfortunately, mistakes can happen, even with a carefully chosen healthcare provider. Medical malpractice occurs when a provider, usually a doctor or hospital, fails to administer treatment that meets the […]
Sacramento Hospital Settles for $10M
According to ABC News, the family of a Californian toddler will receive $10 million a medical malpractice settlement. In November of 2010, the two year old’s parents took her to a Sacramento Hospital with a fever, skin discoloration, and weakness. After waiting five hours without seeing a specialist, she was flown to another healthcare facility. The […]
Teva, Baxter, McKesson at Fault for Hepatitis C Infections
Teva Parenteral Medicines, Inc., Baxter Healthcare Corp., and McKesson Corp. have been ordered by a jury to pay at least $20.1 million for packaging and selling an anesthetic in a way that proved harmful to patients. The jury concluded that the companies wrongfully sold Propofol in vials large enough to be used on multiple patients. […]
Hospital Admits Mistake after Teen Left Paralyzed
A teenager was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down after an epidural anesthetic was left in her spine for too long. The young woman was 14 years old when she went in for a routine operation to remove gallstones. During the patient’s hospital stay, the hospital staff had been told that the numbness had […]
Foreign Object Left in Patient Leads to a $375,000 Medical Malpractice Verdict
Four years after undergoing aortofemoral bypass surgery in January 2004, an 85-year-old woman underwent a second surgery to remove a surgical sponge previously left behind. Throughout those four years, the woman suffered from pain in her back and the lower left quadrant of her abdomen, weakness, dizziness, numerous infections that were treated with antibiotics, nausea, […]
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