January 30, 2010

Class Action Medical Malpractice Filed Regarding Stints

Medical malpractice attorneys have filed a class action lawsuit against a hospital after it informed more than 350 patients that they may have received unnecessary heart stents. The hospital had recently sent letters to the patients informing them that they may have received stents even though their arteries were not in fact clogged enough that they would need such a stent. The class-action lawyers state that the stents were implemented because of their $10,000 procedure costs. The hospital did not comment on the medical malpractice lawsuit.. Surgeries should only be performed if they are in the interest of the patient. To read into the class-action lawsuit, please click the link.

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January 24, 2010

Woman Claims She Was Burned During Childhood Surgery

A woman blames her third degree burns on the medical negligence of doctors at a children’s hospital before she went into surgery. A medical malpractice attorney has filed a lawsuit against the hospital on her behalf. The woman claims she became a patient in 2002 for surgery to treat her hyperparathyroidism. During the surgery, she received third-degree burns when doctors negligently allowed heat or a hot object to burn her back. She also claimed they failed to properly supervise her preparation for the surgery. The doctor at the hospital failed to guide his assistants in the proper placement of surgical devices to avoid the burning. Since the incident, she has been forced to endure additional surgeries and suffered disfigurement. This type of medical negligence will have a life long effect on the woman. To read more about the medical malpractice lawsuit, please click the link.

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January 12, 2010

Man Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit after Doctors Leave Device in his Knee

A man says he suffered 10 weeks of pain and stiffness before his doctors discovered that they had left a broken device in his knee during his surgery. The man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit after the event and is suing for unspecified damages. He also names an orthopedic and sports medicine center in the malpractice lawsuit and the hospital where the surgery was performed. An x-ray performed two months after his surgery showed a “foreign body’ in his knee. The medical malpractice lawsuit states that the doctor performed follow-up surgery the next day and removed what looked like a broken surgical device from the victim’s knee. To learn more about the malpractice lawsuit, please click the link.

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December 27, 2009

Lawsuit Says Surgeons Left Gauze in Patient

A victim has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit after piece of gauze allegedly left behind in a patient after surgery required a follow-up procedure to remove it. The victim filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital and two doctors. Also, the victim contends that she only learned through medical records this year while the gauze was left eight years ago. The woman underwent a surgical procedure on her liver in 2000. Two weeks later she was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of an intra-abdominal abscess. This is an infection inside the belly area. During that procedure, they found gauze under the connective tissue that runs throughout the body. She maintains she did not find out about the gauze until obtaining medical records from the hospital this year. Before she found the record, she had no reason to believe a foreign body had been in her abdomen. Disclosing medical errors is one of the biggest issues for medical malpractice reform. To read more about the gauze error, please click the link.

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September 28, 2009

Illinois Woman Dies Following Surgical Fire

A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery. This has become a rare but vexing medical error in operating rooms. The victim died six days after being burned on the operating table at the hospital. The victim’s attorney had requested medical records from the hospital and that he had few details about what happened. The state medical examiner’s office said the victim died from complications of thermal burns and classified her death as accidental. The hospital only stated that there was an accidental flash fire in one of the hospital’s operating rooms injuring a patient before being immediately extinguished. The hospital could not state how the fire started but that it responded with necessary and appropriate measures. Surgical flash fires oftentimes are sparked by electric surgical tools when oxygen builds up under surgical drapes. The fires actually occur an estimated 550 to 600 times a year but only kill about one or two people each year. However, worries have mounted in recent years with increased use of electrosurgical devices and the replacement of cloth hospital drapes with those made of more-flammable, disposable synthetic fabric. To read more about the surgical fire, please click the link.

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August 20, 2009

Feeding Tube Causes Death

A man who was admitted to a military medical center died five months after he had a feeding tube inserted into his lung. The family claims in their medical malpractice suit that the doctors failed to remove the tube immediately after discovering the medical mistake. The government attorneys for the medical center claim the man did not die from the feeding tube, however the man’s death certificate says he died from “overwhelming septic infection and a blood-clotting problem.”

Read more about the medical malpractice lawsuit here.

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August 19, 2009

Woman Dies after Routine Surgery

A woman died after having routine surgery at a hospital. She requested to see her doctor when she experienced excruciating pain after surgery, but was not allegedly examined until the next morning. The examination proved too late because she had already gone into shock and was rushed to intensive care where she died. After her death, the family alleges the hospital deleted portions of her medical file to cover up their medical mistakes. The woman’s medical malpractice attorney claims that “bad mistakes and worst-case outcomes are possible at world-renowned hospitals.”

Read more about the medical malpractice lawsuit here.

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August 1, 2009

Man Awarded $1 Million in Medical Malpractice Claim

A man was awarded $1 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a negligent surgeon. The surgeon allegedly was hired to close a perforation the man had suffered during a colonoscopy, but instead did not find the perforation, according to the man’s medical malpractice lawyer. The perforation then continued to leak fluids into the man’s abdomen.

Read more about the medical malpractice verdict here.

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May 8, 2009

Jury Finds Doctor Negligent in Medical Malpractice Case

Recently, a jury awarded a 20-year-old woman $872,000 in a medical malpractice case for the severe burns she suffered on her face and neck during surgery. The woman was having a mole removed from her eyebrow and was anesthetized during the procedure. The plastic surgeon was found negligent when he failed to communicate to the anesthesia assistant that he was using a device that could cause an operating room fire when administered near oxygen. Due to this failure to communicate, the device ignited a fire that severely burned the patient. The jury also learned that the negligent doctor did not reveal the cause of the fire to the patient’s family. Read more about this successful medical malpractice case.

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May 7, 2009

Jury Awards Medical Malpractice Victim $12 M

Medical malpractice lawyers recently argued their client’s case in front of a judge and jury and received a reward of $12 million for the 33-year-old woman who suffered disability and brain damage during a routine colonoscopy and endoscopy. During the procedure, the doctor perforated her small intestine. After the procedure, the plaintiff developed common symptoms of a perforated small intestine, including severe pain and vomiting. When she contacted the doctor, he prescribed her anti-vomiting medications. The next day, her pain continued and she was taken to the emergency room where they diagnosed her condition. Because of this delayed diagnosis, she went into cardiac arrest, leading to brain damage and permanent disability. Follow the link to read the full article about this medical negligence case.

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April 24, 2009

Doctor Sued in Chicago Medical Malpractice Case

A Chicago doctor, is being sued “for allegedly botching a circumcision of a 1-day-old baby and cutting off a portion of the infant’s penis,” according to a Chicago news article. The infant had to have emergency surgery to correct the medical error. The infant’s father is suing the Northwestern Memorial doctor for medical malpractice.

Read more about the Chicago medical malpractice suit here.

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March 19, 2009

Family Sues Over Son’s Misdiagnosis and Negligence

A hospital’s misdiagnosis a boy’s cancer led to his death according to his family’s complaint filed against the hospital. The hospital originally diagnosed the son with bacterial meningitis and released him. The condition later was determined to be an aggressive form of anaplastic central nervous system T-cell lymphoma cancer that killed the boy. Two of the four patients that received the boy’s organs have died from the cancer. The lawsuit also claims doctor negligence.

Read more about the hospital’s misdiagnosis lawsuit here.

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Posted In: Emergency Rooms, Failure to Diagnose Cancer, Misdiagnosis, Transplant Error, Hospital Negligence, Surgical Error

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March 16, 2009

Fewer People Getting Plastic Surgery During Recession

A new study by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has found that the number of plastic surgery procedures is down by 12% since 2007. Many attribute this drop to the recession and people choosing not to have the often voluntary procedures to save money and take less time off of work.

Despite this drop, there is still a demand for these procedures and noninvasive treatments such as chemical peels and Botox have increased in popularity. With the popularity of plastic surgery, there will inevitably be instances of medical negligence. If you or a loved one have suffered injury or death as a result of medical malpractice during a plastic surgery procedure, we encourage you to contact our office to talk about your case. To read the full article on plastic surgery in Forbes visit the link.

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March 14, 2009

Man Wins $5.8 Million in Medical Negligence Case

A jury ordered a hospital to pay $5.8 million in a medical malpractice case to an anesthesiologist who suffered serious infection after having back surgery. The doctor was a staff member of the hospital where the surgery took place. The medical malpractice lawsuit claimed that his surgeons used instruments that were not properly sterilized and the surgery site became infected as a result of this negligence. The plaintiff had to have five additional surgeries as a result of this hospital-borne infection. His attorneys also noted that he would be on pain medicine for the rest of his life and would work less because of this hospital’s negligence.

To read more about this case of medical negligence follow the link.

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Posted In: Infections, Verdicts and Settlements, Hospital Negligence, Surgical Error

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March 13, 2009

$2.5 Million Jury Verdict in Malpractice Case

A jury awarded a woman $2.5 million in a medical malpractice case in which a surgeon left a sponge inside of her body during a hysterectomy. The woman was unaware of this surgical error until three years later when she began to have health problems. After discovering the sponge, doctors performed surgery to remove it. However, the sponge had caused intestinal problems, and in addition to having the sponge removed, doctors had to remove part of her small intestine. According to her attorney, this caused constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, depression and anxiety.

Please follow the link to read more about this medical malpractice verdict.

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