Medical Malpractice

• 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...

• Guidant Offer to Fix Heart Stent is Inadquate

  Joe Saunders | February 17, 2006 9:20 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  Guidant Corp.'s program to pay $2,500 to patients to replace a heart device that has had malfunctions is nowhere near sufficient to cover costs of the procedure. The offer covers only about 10% of the cost of the replacement procedure. How is this fair? How is this the right thing to do?

• Doctors Force Patients To Sign Gag Orders

  Ed Normand | February 18, 2009 10:18 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  A new and disturbing trend has been happening in physician offices in Florida. Doctors force patients to sign paperwork preventing the patients from commenting about the physicians on the internet....

• Did You Know You Can Catch Fire in the OR?

  Sandy Grinnell | September 29, 2008 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  There are times when you read something that you just can't believe and this was one of those for me. Did you know that

• 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...

• The Cost To Society of Rampant Medical Malpractice

  Ed Normand | August 07, 2008 5:36 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  Every year there is a study called the Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study. The name speaks for itself. Sadly every year for the 5 years it has been in existence shows shocking amounts of...

• Doctors Keep Medical Negligence Secret

  Ed Normand | December 04, 2007 8:33 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In yet another study of the medical malpractice problem in the United States a recent study revealed that almost half of physicians in the United States admitted they knew of a serious medical error that had been made but did not tell authorities about it. The report stated that most of the physicians knew that they should report the problem but did not. Imagine if half all pilots refused to...

• Safety of Drug Coated Heart Stents Still Up in the Air

  Staff Writer | October 25, 2006 8:31 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  After the third day of Transcather Cardiovascular Therapeutics show, the results are still mixed regarding the safety of drug coated heart stents. The stents, manufactured by Boston Scientific's Taxus and Johnson & Johnson's Cypher, many experts agreed, there appears to be a long-term clotting risk compared with the use of older bare metal stents. Even some physicians have been reluctant in...

• Guidant Withholds Info About the Dangers of its Defibrillators

  Joe Saunders | December 28, 2005 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL

  In documents filed in a Texas lawsuit against Guidant, the manufacturer of implantable defibrillators, the company failed to disclose publicly that Guidant officials had projected that some patients might die because of short circuits in their implantable defibrillator. According to the documents, Guidant did not disclose the information because the overall failure rate was not worthy of public...

• Fla. Physicians, Plaintiffs Lawyers Battle Over Med-Mal Discovery

  super super | October 28, 2005 10:56 AM | 1 CommentOrlando, FL

  A West Palm Beach, Fla., attorney has won a ruling declaring that the state Legislature's implementing law for last year's Patient Right to Know ballot initiative is unconstitutional because it fails to provide full public access to records on medical errors.The ruling is at least the second recent Florida circuit court decision in favor of medical malpractice plaintiffs who want to use the new...