Medical Malpractice

• Preventing Medical Malpractice

  Ben Glass | March 12, 2007 7:08 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Here's an interesting list of malpractice prevention tips from a doctor's blog. I happen to agree with this list but believe most doctors will never go for it.Look at #2, for example: Giving the patient a detailed record of the visit before they leave the office. when you leave the car repair store what do you get? A list of everything they did as well as a list of recomended services. Most...

• $1.9 MILLION VERDICT FOR SHOULDER DYSTOCIA IN VIRGINIA BABY

  Ben Glass | March 12, 2007 6:06 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A Virginia Beach Circuit Court jury deliberated 30 minutes before returning a verdict of just under $2 million against a physician at Chesapeake General Hospital. The plaintiff alleged that the obstetrician mismanaged the baby's shoulder dystocia by applying excessive traction to the baby's head resulting in an Erb's palsy. The baby suffered a serious injury including avulsion of nerve roots...

• Wonder Who Was Calling the Shots in this Case?

  Ben Glass | March 08, 2007 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Some Florida doctors who lost a case to the tune of over $100 million are now suing their defense attorneys, for turning down a chance to settle for $1.5 million.A Tampa Website has the full storyIt would be really interesting to climb into the defense and insurance file in this case. If it's like any in the Washington, D.C. area recently the insurance company was probably calling the...

• Prescription Errors Still Prevalent in Hospitals

  Ben Glass | March 08, 2007 5:35 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  You would think in this age of technology that we would have eliminated errors in filling prescriptions, especially when the filling is being done in the hospital. Not so. We are looking at a case right now involving a woman who, on her day of discharge, was given medications actually intended for a psychiatric patient. She questioned the nurse, who assured her that the drugs were for her.They...

• West Virginia Case to Challenge Malpractice Tort Reform

  Ben Glass | March 01, 2007 4:47 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The West Virginia Record is reporting an interesting medical malpractice case where West Virginia's requirement of a pre suit certificate of merit in malpractice cases is under challenge. As the District of Columbia moves towards requiring pre-suit notification to defendants and mandatory early mediation of claims, we'll all be following this W. Virginia case.The specific challenge raised is:...

• Important Patient Safety Bill

  Ben Glass | February 16, 2007 9:28 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  What if your HMO doctor ordered a test by an outside radiologist who then reported the results back to the HMO doctor, and the doctor never read the results, resulting in your death? What if the doctors then pointed fingers at each other, forcing the patient's family to trial? This stuff goes on all the time in Virginia courts.This sad but true set of facts is being litigated right now in a...

• $3,325,000 wrongful death verdict to be reduced.

  Ben Glass | February 09, 2007 2:56 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A recent medical malpractice case tried in Fairfax County showed once again how devastating Virginia's medical malpractice cap can be to families.A 3‑year‑old child developed neurological signs demonstrating an error of metabolism resulting in increased ammonia levels in the blood and brain. The child and her family presented to Inova Fairfax Hospital where allegedly the standard of care...

• Mary Washington Hospital Settles Five Malpractice Cases

  Ben Glass | February 01, 2007 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  According to an article in the TimesDispatch Mary Washington (Fredericksburg) Hospital has settled five of nine medical malpractice lawsuits filed against it after patients were injured or died after receiving allegedly contaminated heart surgery medication.This doesn't end this very sad story as two defendants, Central Admixture Pharmacy Services Inc. and B. Braun Medical, the pharmaceutical...

• New Report: the Medical Malpractice Hoax

  Ben Glass | January 19, 2007 4:44 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Public Citizen has just published a new report, again exposing the medical malpractice "crisis" for what it is, a big hoax on the American Public. This new report will provide additional ammunition for citizens (particularly like those in Virginia, Texas and Florida) that face some of the most one-side doctor protective legislation in the country.In a press release, Public Citizen said:The real...

• A New Defense to Foreign Object Cases

  Ben Glass | January 16, 2007 1:11 PM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  You would think that if a surgeon leaves a sponge or towel in a patient during surgery that there couldn't be any real defense to the medical malpractice case that is brought.In the "what will they think of next" category, some Cleveland Clinic doctors are defending the medical malpractice case on the theory that the towel left in side the (now dead) patient's body, "prolonged her life." Ok, Ok,...