Physicians with a single paid claim are 4x as likely to have a future claim than physicians with zero paid claims. We find a similar pattern in both high-risk and lower-risk specialties. We also find no evidence that public disclosure of paid claims has any impact on these patterns — meaning there is no “blood […]
Preventable harm caused by health care providers to patients is the core mission addressed in a medical malpractice case. The need is greater now than ever. Due to the growing rate of medical errors and malpractice, scientists at Johns Hopkins in 2016 proposed it should rank as the third leading cause of death in the […]
It offers insights and ideas to abstract questions and truly shows that AI has a place in the future. I asked ChatGPT what it thought the future and limitations of AI would be in medicine, and here is what it told me …” That’s the how one doctor begins an article on how artificial intelligence […]
Numerous errors and medicolegal aspects have been identified in diagnosing and treating cardiac tamponade associated with cardiac-related procedures such as valve replacement surgeries, cardiac pacemaker implantation, pericardiocentesis, and other non-cardiac related procedures such as peri-hiatal surgeries. Patients taking anticoagulants or anticancer medications are especially susceptible to developing cardiac tamponade when undergoing surgical procedures, raising the […]
Here is a case out of Ohio allowing a claim to proceed, even where the defendant makes himself difficult to find and serve with process. Ohio Supreme Court: Patients can pursue legal claim against doctor who fled country I had a similar and horrific case involving a small child killed in an office setting during […]
There was a New England Journal of Medicine article decades ago that found that if emergency room patients didn’t list their complaints in the right order and in time – they wouldn’t be heard or recorded properly. Originally reported in the New York Times, this study is getting wide attention. “The study, released [Dec. 15] by […]
Said the wait child, bruised ball child, pride slapped child hurts The wait child, crest felled child, tear eyed child hurts The wait child, bus stop child, late come child hurts The wait child, platform walk, idle talk hurts Pretenders, The Wait So many of my cases have involved a delay in the face of […]
In my line of work, these kinds of cases often show up as patients who suffered adverse events because they “fell through the cracks” (an awful euphemism for getting substandard care). Our latest surveys of pharmacists, patients and providers to inform the upcoming 2023 Medication Access Report, support this. The surveys found that patients and […]
A Texas medical malpractice case involving a man’s needless paralysis provides a useful example of the relationship between economic and non-economic damages. Attorneys argued the hospital violated numerous internal policies by needlessly delaying a critically needed MRI scan and emergency surgery. The jury found that the hospital was negligent and that the negligence caused the […]
Transparency and patient safety are a problem in health care around the globe – not just in the US. In 2018, the largest peer review in NHS and Northern Ireland’s history identified numerous concerns regarding a neurology practice, including lack of proper clinical investigation, inaccurate diagnoses, poor prescribing practices, poor recording keeping, lack of openness […]
