Monthly Archives: September 2013
Appeal of $10M Pennsylvania medical malpractice verdict denied
Doctors throughout he nation make medical mistakes more than anyone likely wants to think about. These medical mistakes make take many forms including misdiagnoses. While often the condition a doctor fails to diagnose is more serious than what the patient...
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Concerns raised over use of medical robotic technology
Technological advances have greatly improved the ease and quality of many Americans' lives. This is especially true within the medical field where the use of technology and medical devices has helped save millions of lives. While there is little doubt...
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Apnea-related bill targeting commercial truckers passes U.S. House
In a recent blog post (please see our August 28, 2013, entry), we discussed some of the factors that contribute in a major way to commercial truck crashes in Ohio and across the nation. Obvious culprits include aggressive driving --...
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Patient falls continue to plague hospitals
There are, of course, many things that could occur in a hospital setting that might lead to a patient being injured. One problem that plagues hospitals throughout the nation, including those located in Western Pennsylvania, is patients falling. Patient falls...
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Jails have become overrun with many who are considered mentally ill
In a 2006 United States Bureau of Justice Statistics poll, 56% of state prison inmates and 64% of local inmates were said to be suffering from some sort of mental illness. Mental health experts today say those numbers are too...
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Man sues after living with HIV misdiagnosis for nine years
Thirty years ago, an individual diagnosed as having the human immunodeficiency virus was doomed to death. HIV is the virus which causes an individual to develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. During the 1980s and 1990s, millions of people around...
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New Castle man killed in cement truck accident
Tragedy struck Big Beaver Borough on Monday afternoon around 2 p.m. when a man was killed after he crashed the cement truck he was driving. Police and Investigators are saying that a tire on the truck blew out and likely...
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Truck driver’s failure to stop sets off deadly chain reaction
Truck drivers are accustomed to driving long hours and in all types of road conditions. Truckers are also used to navigating through challenging driving environments including road construction sites. When coming upon a construction work zone, truck drivers, along with...
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Mental health facility budget cuts are happening all over the region
Despite mass shootings and murder-suicides tied to people with serious mental health issues, states around the country continue to cut funding every year. Budgets cuts lead to reduced access to care--it's as simple as that. And with deplorable acts of...
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Attorneys Doug Olcott and Dallas Hartman settle $1.3 million case for Pulaski man disabled after fall
Attorneys Douglas Olcott and Dallas Hartman, of Dallas W. Hartman, P.C., have secured a $1.3 million dollar settlement for a Pulaski man who was critically injured in a March 2000 fall as a result of a defective product. Billy Ray Moore...
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$11 million in cuts to mental health in PA has its consequences
Mental health facilities in western Pennsylvania are nearly extinct. Budget cuts over the past 30-40 years have forced state-run psychiatric hospitals to close their doors, leaving previous inhabitants to be dealt with by the law, for-profit companies, local hospitals, and...
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New study reports medical malpractice deaths as high as 440,000 per year
Each time a new study is published about the severity and consistency of medical mistakes, the kind that injure or kill patients, the numbers seem to worsen.A 1999 report titled "To Err is Human," published by the Institute of Medicine,...
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