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Do Female Doctors Provide Better Care than Their Male Counterparts?
Does the gender of your doctor make a difference in health care outcomes? A new study by Harvard researchers, published at the end of last year in JAMA Internal Medicine, proposes that female doctors see better results than male doctors. The study revealed that patients in the care of female doctors were less likely to…
Read MoreAlabama Jury Awards $10M to Family for Failure to Diagnose Meningitis
There are few things to make a parent feel more helpless than when your child is deathly ill. You take them to see a doctor and you trust that with the doctor’s decade of training and years of experience helping patients they will know what to do, and do what is best to care for…
Read MoreContaminated Medical Scopes Cause Potentially Deadly Infections
Duodenoscopes are small, tube-shaped medical devices used in a procedure called an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to diagnose health problems in the digestive tract. Due to a problem with cleaning these scopes, they can become infected with bacteria after being used on one patient which can then be transferred to the next patient. The U.S.…
Read MoreBotched Tonsillectomy Causes Brain Damage, and the Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Resulted in $12.7 Million Verdict
You might think that a tonsillectomy is a routine surgery that gets performed thousands of times each year without incident, and you would be correct. However, a Pennsylvania woman suffered brain damage after her breathing tube was removed too quickly after a routine tonsillectomy. A Montgomery County jury awarded her $12.7 million in compensatory damages…
Read MoreMedical Malpractice for Failure to Treat a Medical Condition
Doctors and other medical professionals are highly trained and go through years of study and practice in order to be able to treat patients. You know that doctors are not infallible, but you trust in their expertise in being able to diagnose what is wrong and offer appropriate treatment when you are ill. If you…
Read MoreAnother Abilify Lawsuit Linked to Compulsive Gambling Losses
On November 1, 2016, a California woman named Chrystal Austin filed a lawsuit against Bristol Meyers-Squibb after having suffered excessive financial losses linked to a compulsive gambling problem caused by the drug Abilify. Ms. Austin claims that the drug maker failed to warn consumers about the impulse control side-effects before it caused her significant financial…
Read MoreToddler’s Death from a Fatal E. Coli Infection Could Have Been Prevented
E. coli is a dangerous infection that can lead to more serious illnesses and even death. There are ways to diagnose it and treat it, but time is a key factor. In a recent heartbreaking story out of Georgia, a toddler named Grayson Dunham died within a week after showing symptoms of a deadly E.…
Read MoreWhat to Consider Before Filing a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Just because your doctor or any other medical professional made a mistake about your care, it does not amount to medical malpractice. As a plaintiff (the person who brings the claim) you need to establish a few things before you can even file a medical malpractice lawsuit. If you are unsure whether or not you…
Read MoreTelemedicine, Misdiagnosis and Medical Malpractice
Telemedicine is being lauded as the next step in the evolution of health care delivery. Whether the patient accesses their doctor through an online forum accessible from their home computer screen, or through a kiosk in a clinic or workplace, the patient is talking to the health care provider through a live, video conference arrangement.…
Read MoreSepsis and Medical Malpractice
What did boxer Muhammad Ali, Muppets creator Jim Henson, and actress Patty Duke all have in common? Each of these legends died from sepsis, a condition which kills about 258,000 Americans each year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines sepsis as a complication caused by the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to an…
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