Medical Malpractice

• Exposure to Hepatitis C Could Spark Lawsuits

  Alan Ripka | July 16, 2009 12:14 PM | 5 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Today’s news and newspapers uncovers Northern Westchester hospital, in Westchester NY, as having potentially exposing 6,000 patients to Hepatitis C. The patients were injected with what they...

• Are You at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Hepatitis C?

  Alan Ripka | July 31, 2009 12:20 PM | 3 CommentsNew York City, NY

  Those who contracted Hepatitis C at Northern Westchester Hospital between October 8, 2007 and February 28, 2008 may have sexually transmitted this virus through intimate relations to spouses,...

• Different Elements of Medical Malpractice

  Oguz Ozdemir | August 20, 2009 12:45 AM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  What exactly is medical malpractice? It is when a physician or health care professional acts negligently while treating a patient for a medical condition. It is a result of an action or inaction and...

• Intestinal Anastomotic Failures

  Alan Ripka | July 15, 2009 12:16 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  If you've had abdominal surgery, or an intestinal-bowel-colon resection and it failed, it may be due to medical malpractice, product liability (such as the device that seals the ends malfunctioned...

• Gastric Bypass Surgery Risk

  Jeremy Thurman | July 14, 2006 11:15 AM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  With approximately 9 million Americans living with morbid obesity today, gastric bypass surgery has become more and more popular. I recently read where a reported 150,000 people have opted to undergo the surgery in 2004 alone. Many individuals have benefited from this surgery but one has to wonder how many surgeons are actually experienced in this surgery. I think this may be the biggest risk...

• Insurance company cancels policies

  Jeremy Thurman | May 18, 2006 11:46 AM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  More details have emerged about allegations that WellPoint subsidiary Blue Cross of California has routinely canceled the policies of members with health problems. The Los Angeles Times talks with attorney William Shernoff, who began gathering evidence for a class action suit last year after learning of the existence of a unit within the company responsible for looking for cases of possible...

• Doctors the third leading cause of death in the US?

  Jeremy Thurman | January 04, 2006 2:15 PM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  Do you know what the term iatrogenic means? is defined as "induced in a patient by a physician's activity, manner, or therapy. Used especially to pertain to a complication of treatment." In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a Dr. Starfield has documented an estimation of how many iatrogenic caused deaths occur each year. His report shows that 106,000 deaths are the...

• U.S. Health Care Most Expensive & Most Error Prone

  Jeremy Thurman | December 30, 2005 10:44 AM | 1 CommentNew York City, NY

  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...

• Mother of Three Brain Dead from Spa Procedure

  Paul Napoli | October 05, 2009 10:24 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  October 4th, 2009 The family of Rohie Kah-Orukotan, a 37-year-old nurse and mother of three, struggle with the decision of taking her off life support at after she suffered a complication during...

• Yaz

  Oguz Ozdemir | August 24, 2009 11:06 PM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  You would have thought that Bayer would have learned from its experiences with its first novel birth control pill, Yasmin. The company came under fire for promoting the birth control as being better...