Medical Malpractice
Doctors, nurses and other health care providers spend a great deal of time learning how to treat a great variety of illnesses and physical maladies. As a group they are professionals dedicated to helping alleviate the ailments that can plague mankind. Unfortunately, health care providers can also make mistakes. When mistakes are made the effects can be devastating. In fact, according to the National Academy of Sciences, approximately 98,000 Americans die from "medical mistakes" each year.
Medical malpractice is a form of negligence involving a medical treatment provider. If someone is injured as a result of a treatment provider's digression from the standard of care, that provider may be liable for the injury that has occurred. The determination of whether a medical professional has met the standard of care is based on a comparison to other professionals in the same field and the same geographical region. In other words, what would a reasonably competent medical professional practicing in the same field as the defendant, and in the same area of the defendant, do under the circumstances that the defendant was facing with respect to care and treatment of the patient?
Medical malpractice does not occur every time there is a bad outcome from treatment. It is simply a duty to provide good care according to the accepted standards of the community and/or the accepted standards of a particular medical specialty. The law generally recognizes the practice of medicine as an "art" rather than as an exact science. Therefore, some latitude is given to practitioners with respect to the manner in which they choose to address the problems of specific patients.
If you or a loved one has suffered an injury, illness or death that you suspect was caused by a medical professional, call VanDerGinst Law at 1-866-843-7367 or click here for a FREE online case evaluation. The initial consultation is free of charge. If we agree to handle your injury case, we will work on a contingency fee basis, which means we get paid for our services only if, and when, there is a money recovery for you. In many cases a lawsuit must be filed before an applicable expiration date, known as a statute of limitations. So please call right away to ensure that you do not waive your right to possible compensation.
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| Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT Colorado Society Of Anesthesiologists Disagrees With NPATCH's Support To Allow Nurses To Administer Anesthesia Without The Supervision Of A Physician "The Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) strongly disagrees with NPATCH's support for allowing nurses to administer anesthesia without physician supervision. Regrettably, their action was not unexpected. It is disturbing that NPATCH and others would support policies whereby a patient's life-and-death medical decisions would be made by nurses, not doctors... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT Allergan Resolves United States Government Investigation Of Past Sales And Marketing Practices Relating To Certain Therapeutic Uses Of BOTOX(R) Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) announced that it has reached a resolution with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the previously reported Government investigation into Allergan's past U.S. sales and marketing practices relating to certain therapeutic uses of BOTOX® (onabotulinumtoxinA)... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:00:00 PDT Patients Are Injured Due To Missed Or Delayed Diagnosis Analysis Shows Errors related to missed or delayed diagnosis are frequently a cause of patient injury and therefore an underlying cause of patient safety related events. Autopsy analysis spanning several decades show error rates at four to 50 percent, according to an article released by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and published in its September Pennsylvania Patient Safety Advisory... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:00 PDT Study Recommends Disclosure Of Medical Mistakes That Affect Multiple Patients Health care organizations should disclose medical mistakes that affect multiple patients even if patients were not harmed by the event, according to an AHRQ-funded research paper published in the September 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PDT Botox Maker Allergan Agrees To Pay $600 Million And Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Allergan Inc., the makers of BOTOX (onabotulinumtoxinA) announced that it has agreed to pay US $600 million and to plead guilty to misdemeanor, thus reaching a resolution with the DOJ (US Department of Justice) regarding a previously reported Government investigation into the company's past sales and marketing practices related to specific therapeutic uses of BOTOX... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT MDU Issues Top Tips For Responding To Complaints, UK As figures released today show the number of written complaints about general practice in the last year increased by 4.4 per cent*, the MDU issued advice for GP members to help them respond to dissatisfied patients... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
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| Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Some Tests, Long Ignored, Showed Signs of Heart Illness The results of 4,000 echocardiograms had never been seen by doctors at Harlem Hospital Center because of a practice of allowing technicians to read them first. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Learning to Keep Patients Safe in a Culture of Fear The threat of blame, even malpractice, looms over doctors working to prevent medical errors. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Obama Offers to Use Some G.O.P. Health Proposals The president said that he was open to some Republican concerns, but he would press ahead with the overhaul. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Corrections Correction of picture caption accompanying Feb 7 article about felony trial of nurse who alerted Texas Medical Board that doctor at her hospital was practicing unsafe medicine Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Small Ideas Won?t Fix It Some of the Republican ideas on health care reform are good, but they would barely make a dent in the system?s most critical problems. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Whistle-Blowing Nurse Is Acquitted in Texas Medical Malpractice news and personal injury law information. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
