Medical Malpractice

• Florida Ranks 31st in Serious Physician Disciplinary Actions

  Sandy Grinnell | April 24, 2008 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A study by the Public Citizen, an independent watchdog group, reported a significant drop in State Medical Board Serious Disciplinary Actions against doctor's from 2005 to 2007. It is their opinion...

• MORE PATIENTS WAIVING RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL

  Patricia Doherty | April 16, 2008 5:33 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Increasingly, doctors require their patients to waive their constitiutional right to a jury trial by signing binding arbitration agreements. Under binding arbitration agreements, if the physician...

• Pediatrician Accused of Molestation Stops Seeing Patients

  Ed Normand | April 05, 2008 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In a disturbing case out of the Boston area, a pediatrician is accused of molestation of young boys under his care. While this is a terrible situation it points out the absurdity of medical...

• Surgeon Removes Wrong Kidney

  Diego Madrigal | March 21, 2008 5:46 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Thankfully for the sick in Minnesota, a surgeon will stop seeing patients after he removed the wrong kidney from a patient. In doing so, the surgeon left a cancerous kidney inside the patient. The surgery was done last Tuesday, but only on Wednesday was it discovered what had happened. To prevent something like this from happening again, the Chief Medical Officer of the hospital said that...

• Jury Clears Actor Ritter's Doctors of Medical Malpractice

  Mike Damaso | March 18, 2008 5:11 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A jury verdict came down in the medical malpractice / wrongful death lawsuit of Actor John Ritter last Friday. The lawsuit was brought by Ritter's Widow and Children. After two days of deliberation, the jury cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist of negligence. As such, there will be no damage judgment against these doctors. The family claimed that Ritter was misdiagnosed and was provided...

• Medical Malpractice Patients' Right To Know

  Ed Normand | March 06, 2008 5:54 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In a decision just released earlier today the Florida Supreme Court ruled on the scope of the 2004 Florida Constitutional Amendment 7, entitled the "Patients Right to Know" Act. In a ruling that is welcome to consumers and patients who are concerned about the safety of their families when choosing a hospital, our State Supreme Court held in rulings on cases called Florida Hospital Waterman,...

• Missouri Seeks to Increase Liability for Abortion Malpractice

  Ed Normand | February 15, 2008 6:01 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Proposed legislation in Missouri increase the liability caps in medical malpractice cases for cases of abortion malpractice. . Under the present medical malpractice caps in Missouri, pain and suffering damage awards are capped at $350,000. The new law would make the caps invalid in claims of abortion related medical malpractice. Obviously this will be a hot topic and highly debated between...

• John Ritter Estate Medical Malpractice Trial

  Ed Normand | February 14, 2008 5:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Actor John Ritter, best known from his days in the sitcom "Three's Company", died in 2003 at age 54 from a tear in the aorta, at a hospital in Burbank, California. Subsequent investigation by his family led them to conclude that the aorta tear was not treated correctly and, in fact, was misdiagnosed as a heart attack. The Ritter Estate, on behalf of his surviving relatives is now suing his...

• Unretrieved Surgical Medical Device Notice from FDA

  Sandy Grinnell | January 25, 2008 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  This week the FDA issued a Public Health Notification to the healthcare community which to a lay person would seem to be pretty obvious. The Notice begins: Dear Healthcare Practitioner:This is to advise you of serious adverse events associated with unretrieved device fragments (UDFs) and provide recommendations to mitigate these events. A UDF is a fragment of a medical device that has separated...

• Addicted Doctors Practicing Medicine

  Ed Normand | December 19, 2007 12:29 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  California has closed its confidential program that allowed physicians to continue to practice medicine while undergoing treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. There have been many cases of medical malpractice, even those involving injury and death, committed by physicians in treatment programs administered by state medical boards. Many physicians successfully recover while under such programs...