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- Colon cancer affecting younger individuals leading to misdiagnosis
Aug 8, 2012
There are many different reasons a person might end up filing a wrongful death lawsuit. One of those possibilities is a failure or delay in a diagnosis. There are a variety of scenarios that could contribute to a medical professional failing to recognize a disease or illness. One that recently affected a woman was a doctor's failure to order a test that could reveal the presence of colon cancer. Several years ago the woman sought...Read More - Nursing errors stem from poor management
Aug 8, 2012
Most of us can relate to at some point to having a job where we felt stressed out and overworked. Researchers have examined the impact of sustained stress on individuals, finding that many start to eventually shut down in response to excessive amounts of pressure and stress. A new study examines how stress impacts nurses and may lead to an increase in nursing errors. For years, nurses around the country and in states like Ohio...Read More - Ohio city to debate stricter distracted driver laws
Aug 6, 2012
As of Aug. 30, Ohio drivers who chose to text while driving can be fined. While proponents of the law banning texting and driving agree drivers who text present an increased danger in causing or being involved in motor vehicle accidents, city officials in one Ohio city want to take additional measures. City officials in Bowling Green are deciding on whether to pass a bill that would allow police officers to pull drivers over for...Read More - Dangerous small magnets present choking hazard, may be banned
Aug 4, 2012
After at least 12 cases of children swallowing small magnets resulted in surgery, the Consumer Product Safety Commission sued to ban the sale of Buckyballs and Buckycubes last week. While Buckyballs and Buckycubes are reportedly marketed as desk toys for working adults here in Pennsylvania and throughout the U.S., they are essentially packages of very small magnets and the CPSC believes that they are a very defective and dangerous product in the hands of younger children. Major...Read More - Are fatal medical mistakes on the rise?
Aug 4, 2012
The last time we had exact figures about how many people die each year due to medical mistakes or medication errors in this country may have been in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine reported that 98,000 Americans were falling victim to these errors. Today, it is harder to find statistics like these because states do not have to follow the same guidelines when it comes to reporting medical mistakes. However, estimates put the figure...Read More - Police commander in Pittsburgh hurt in head-on collision
Aug 3, 2012
As most people are aware, anyone who is in a car can be involved in a motor vehicle accident at any time. This is true regardless of one's age, gender or occupation. A Pittsburgh police commander recently experienced this first hand when the Chevrolet Impala she was driving was involved in a head-on crash with a van. The car accident occurred one afternoon on Stuebenville Pike as the commander drove the department-issued vehicle eastbound. The...Read More - Pennsylvania companies sued for bone cement wrongful death
Aug 3, 2012
A lawsuit for, among other things, wrongful death, was recently filed against two Pennsylvania companies for their role in the death of a woman while undergoing surgery. According to the lawsuit the woman died due to the use of bone cement to treat spinal fractures. Though the product known as Norian Skeletal Repair System, had been approved by the Federal Drug Administration for certain uses, it had not yet been approved for use with spinal...Read More - Several injured in Pittsburgh hit-and-run bus accident
Aug 3, 2012
Car accidents are a common occurrence in cities throughout the country, including Pittsburgh. Each weekday individuals take to the road in cars and buses to get to their jobs located there. With all of the traffic in the downtown portion of the city during the week, it is inevitable that at some point an accident will take place there. Late last month a motor vehicle accident involving a car and a bus occurred. The morning...Read More - The Controversy Surrounding Health Care Contract Workers Since Arrest of Med Tech
Aug 2, 2012
By Dallas Hartman of Dallas W. Hartman P.C. posted in Hepatitis C on Thursday, August 2, 2012. The arrest of David Kwiatkowski, a temporary radiologic technologist, for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has shed a new light on temporary workers across the nation. Kwiatkowski worked in 13 hospitals in eight states between January 2007 and July 2012, inlcuding UPMC Presby in Pittsburgh, before he was arrested in a Massachusetts. During that time he...Read More - The controversy surrounding health care contract workers since arrest of medical technician
Aug 2, 2012
The arrest of David Kwiatkowski, a temporary radiologic technologist, for stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has shed a new light on temporary workers across the nation. Kwiatkowski worked in 13 hospitals in eight states between January 2007 and July 2012, including UPMC Presby in Pittsburgh, before he was arrested in a Massachusetts. During that time he was employed by at least two staffing firms. The health care industry's work force is now...Read More