Medical Malpractice

Are doctors responsible, or negligent, for prescribing large quantities of medication for patients in need? A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by a suicide victim's twin sister will address this issue. While this is not a Pennsylvania case, the...

Doctors are human. They feel stress, boredom, surprise and tiredness. A doctor specializing in sleep and sleep deprivation understands these demands and conditions well. These experts realize the public wants all medical professionals to be perfect. Part of this expectation...

Patients in hospitals put their trust in the institution and individuals providing their care. When this trust is abused problems can arise. While there are many things that need to be monitored while someone is receiving treatment in a hospital,...

As an internist at Johns Hopkins Hospital so graphically states, "Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country that we're just not catching." Most patients consistently trust that their medical professional in Pennsylvania and everywhere else is...

The New York Court of Appeals is considering the case of a Long Island doctor who had a nine-month affair with a client. Arguing that the affair was consensual and separate from her treatment program, the doctor hopes the court...

The birth of a child is undoubtedly one of the most amazing and memorable events in any mother's life. When obstetrician malpractice occurs, however, both mother and child can face life-altering permanent injuries. A California woman recently filed a medical...

Doctors and nurses are highly trained medical professionals who have patients' best interest in mind. Even doctors and nurses with years of experience, however, can make mistakes. In fact, an estimated 250,000 Americans die each year as a result of...

When a medical emergency presents, a doctor must quickly take action. What happens, however, if that doctor has been awake for more than 20 hours? Not surprisingly it turns out that the likelihood that a medical mistake will result increases...

A medical malpractice suit for one million dollars against an orthopedist in another state for surgical errors was continued to September 2013 by a county circuit court in October 2012. The plaintiff, a 68-year old woman, filed a civil complaint...

This past September we wrote about a hospital in Ohio that during a surgery to harvest the kidney of a donor, somehow managed to throw the kidney away, making the transplant impossible. The kidney, which had been placed in a...

Few things in life are as amazing or joy inducing as the birth of a new baby. Couples who anxiously wait months, if not years, to bring a tiny new life into the world are often overcome with happiness upon...

When a person is in need of a life-saving organ transplant, they sometimes wait years for a donor match. If a patient's doctor manages to line up a viable organ, then that news is undoubtedly met with jubilation. As we...