If your child was born prematurely — before 32 weeks of gestation — and has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, one of the first questions an experienced birth injury attorney should ask is: Was magnesium sulfate administered before delivery? This is not a complicated question. It is not a matter of experimental medicine or cutting-edge science.
A Pittsburgh family’s worst nightmare began with a simple fever check at an urgent care clinic. Within hours, their vibrant 14-month-old daughter was gone—not from her illness, but from a medical system that failed to recognize a screaming emergency. This is the story of how Lupetin & Unatin held a Pennsylvania healthcare system accountable for missing what every medical professional should have seen: a heart rate so dangerously high it should have triggered an immediate code.
Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers in medicine. The tools to detect it early – Pap smears and HPV testing – have existed for decades. The human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes more than 90% of all cervical cancers is identifiable in patients long before cancer develops, giving physicians a critical window to intervene.
Radiology is the branch of medicine most dependent on disciplined, systematic observation. A radiologist reviewing a chest CT does not just look for what the ordering physician suspects. The standard of care requires a thorough, methodical review of everything visible in the image — because the most important finding is often not the one anyone expected.
An echocardiogram is one of the most important diagnostic tools in cardiovascular medicine. Using ultrasound to create real-time images of the beating heart, it can detect heart valve disease, heart failure, blood clots, congenital abnormalities, and conditions that — if identified and treated promptly — are survivable. If missed, they can be fatal.
An incidental finding is an unexpected abnormality discovered during a medical imaging study that was ordered for a different reason. The term “incidentaloma” is commonly used when the finding is a mass or lesion — a nodule on the lung found during a chest X-ray for a broken rib, a lesion on the liver spotted during an abdominal CT for appendicitis, a thyroid nodule noticed on an ultrasound of the neck.
Anesthesia is a high-stakes medical specialty where a single error in dosage or monitoring can lead to a tragic wrongful death. When providers fail to maintain the standard of care, families are left searching for answers. Lupetin & Unatin, LLC represents Pennsylvania families who have lost loved ones to anesthesia negligence. Learn how our dedicated attorneys hold providers accountable and fight for the recovery your family needs.
Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable forms of cancer, but screening failures can turn a treatable condition into a life-threatening crisis. When Pap smears are misread or HPV results are ignored, the delay in diagnosis is often devastating. Lupetin & Unatin, LLC represents Pennsylvania patients harmed by cervical cancer screening errors. Discover how our attorneys fight for the justice and compensation you deserve.
There is a persistent myth in medicine — one that doctors and hospitals sometimes invoke in their defense — that medicine is an art, not a science. The suggestion is that outcomes are unpredictable, that mistakes are inevitable, and that holding physicians accountable for errors is somehow unfair given the complexity of what they do.
When Hospitals Skip the Checklist, Patients Pay the Price Every year in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are harmed by preventable surgical
If you have been harmed by a physician’s failure to diagnose, treat, or refer you appropriately, you may have heard — or may anticipate hearing — a familiar argument: the doctor was practicing “defensive medicine.” The suggestion is that any physician would have done the same thing, that the test or treatment you needed was unnecessary or risky, and that the doctor’s choices represented reasonable clinical judgment rather than negligence.
Sepsis is not an unpredictable disease—it is a medical emergency with a well-established, time-sensitive treatment protocol. The federal government requires every hospital receiving Medicare reimbursement to follow the CMS SEP-1 bundle: a standardized sequence of blood cultures, serum lactate measurements, and broad-spectrum antibiotics that must be initiated within three hours of sepsis identification.
