A Patient Should Have a Right to Legal Advocacy
In 1998 the United States Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the healthcare industry adopted a Patient Bill of Rights. The same year
Hospital Conceals Airway Accident Resulting in Brain Damage of Child
A young child suffered permanent brain damage following an accident that occurred in a hospital where he was being monitored after being struck by a car. Jerry Meyers represented the child and his family and was able to assist them in navigating economic and other challenges they faced after this tragedy left the child permanently disabled.
The Electronic Medical Record – Better Medicine?
In a previous post I briefly discussed how communication failures in the transmission of test results are common. Many people think that widespread use of
Patients Not Informed of Clinically Significant Outpatient Test Results
The Archives of Internal Medicine, June 22, 2009, published results of a retrospective medical record review involving nineteen community based and four academic medical center
Premature Infant Left For Dead
This client was born premature, but healthy. The doctor decided the baby would never lead a “normal” life. So no resuscitation measures were taken… until the child’s father forced the doctor to resuscitate his baby. Because of the doctor’s delay, the baby suffered irreversible brain injury. The parents contacted one of our lawyers who conducted an investigation, filed a lawsuit and discovered the truth.
Study In Rural India Has Positive Implications
For the value of HPV screening for cervical cancer in the USA The April 2, 2009 Issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes
Cancer Misdiagnosed in 12% of Cases: Study by Alan Mozes
According to Alan Mozes’ report, Monday October 10 in Health Day Reporter, a new study suggests more than 12 percent of cancer patients in the
The Effect Of Creating And Using A Safety Checklist
In Conjunction With The Performance Of Non-Cardiac Surgery In January of 2009 the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study conducted
Women Beware
Your rights to proper and regular screening for cervical cancer by pap smears and other means is being attacked. In a recent publication of a
MGUS & Multiple Myeloma
Each year many die of multiple myeloma. It is a cancer principally affecting bone but capable of metastasizing to the lung and soft tissue. A
Failure to Understand Allergy Leads to Woman’s Death
A patient was undergoing a procedure in a hospital when she had an allergic reaction to an antibiotic being administered, causing cardiac arrest. She was successfully resucitated and her surgery was rescheduled. Amazingly, the surgeon, who was the same surgeon present at the time of the original cardiac arrest, insisted that the patient get the prophylactic antibiotic and the anesthesiologist present and the nurse anesthetist present lacked the courage to refuse. The drug was administered. The patient died.
Death Due To Anesthesia
While modern anesthesia is remarkably safe, preventable errors still lead to tragic fatalities in Pennsylvania hospitals. This post examines the primary causes of anesthesia-related deaths, including medication overdoses, failure to monitor vital signs, and aspiration. We discuss the legal hurdles families face in wrongful death claims and how Lupetin & Unatin investigates these cases to hold negligent providers and hospitals accountable.