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Not only do Americans pay much more for medical treatment than anyone else in the world, they also bear the brunt of the most medical errors, according to a survey covering the USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Almost 7,000 patients were consulted.The survey supported by The Commonwealth Fund finds that one-third of U.S. patients with health problems reported...

Emergency room doctors treating heart attack patients often fail to administer powerful clot-preventing drugs in the proper doses, a new study finds.One common error is to overprescribe -- giving doses large enough to cause potentially dangerous bleeding, according to researchers reporting in the Dec. 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A while back, I did a deposition of a family physician. The deposition was regarding a cardiovascular disease. During the deposition, I began to ask the family physician general questions regarding the symptomology of the disease and what signs she would look at to diagnose the patient that they had this cardiovascular disease. To my amazement, the good doctor could only name one of about 7...

Did you know that statistics on medical malpractice reveal that for every medical error reported, over 50 go unreported? This has to disturbing to anyone who seeks medical treatment. When a doctor fails to render the appropriate medical advice or procedure it can often lead to the disability or even death of their patient. It is imperative that if anyone thinks that they or a family member...

A 28 year old, mother of two, will most likely never be able to walk and live the life she once did. Recently, a $35,000,000.00 settlement was awarded to a woman who went into cardiac arrest and suffered brain damage allegedly as a result of the malpractice of her anesthesiologist. The anesthesiologist, who was 78 years old at the time, reportedly had arthritis. The woman's attorney believes...

One major aspect of emergency management and treatment of heart attacks and ischemic strokes that the general public is unaware of, is a drug called TPA (tissue plasminogen activator). TPA will accelerate clot breakdown and help reestablish blood flow to an ischemic area. For this to be beneficial, TPA needs to be administered within the first three hours after the stroke. According to the...

Recently, Jeffrey A. Guzman, a partner in the law firm Napoli, Bern, Krentsel & Guzman, LLP in Manhattan, New York won a $6.65 Million jury award in favor of an infant client, for an Erb's Palsy Injury. A Westchester County Jury unanimously determined that the defendant obstetrician had departed from good and accepted medical practice during the infant's birth.Brachial Plexus Palsy is when...

Plaintiff sued a neurosurgeon on a medical malpractice theory claiming that the defendant doctor negligently performed a surgery on the Plaintiff's leg with the result that it is permanently swollen and painful. Plaintiff claimed that Defendant severed a main vein during a 1999 operation and failed to prescribe blood thinners following the surgery. Plaintiffwas a police officer for Rumford,...

How far will nursing homes go to deny residents their constitutional rights? Recently, a Florida nursing home devised a scheme to deny its residents important rights before they even moved into the facility. This case went all the way to the appellate level in Florida, where the Florida Appellate Court found that the nursing home effectively buried an agreement requiring arbitration and...

The following link is a great commentary on tort reform and how it attacks the patient.Medical Malpractice Tort ReformAn Excerpt:The truth is that there is a medical malpractice crisis facing our nation. It has its origins in the operating room, not the courtroom. According to an Institute of Medicine study published a few years ago, between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die in hospitals every...

I would just like to take a couple of seconds to congratulate Jeffrey A. Guzman, a member of our firm, for sucessfully trying a birth injury case involving Erb's Palsy. The jury decided unanimously that the defendant obstetrician did not adhere to the medical standard of care during the infant's delivery. I'm happy that our firm in general, and Jeffrey specifically, was able to help protect...