Visiting a dentist is not fun for adults, let alone children, but at some point all of us use the services of dentists for routine cleanings, treatments or even surgical extraction of teeth. Most of us do not consider dental sedation to be a dangerous practice, since it is a routine practice.
Sedation may be...
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Month: July 2012
Iowa settles birth injury suit for $3.75M
The birth of a child is a joyous, life-changing event. However, birth injuries resulting from medical negligence during labor and delivery can change that joyous event to a heartbreaking, life-altering event.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 4.1 million babies are born in the U.S. each year and about...
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Bills limiting NJ medical malpractice suits fail to pass Legislature
During the last legislative session, New Jersey's legislature put patients' rights first, declining to pass two bills that would have prevented patients who were harmed by volunteer doctors from filing medical malpractice lawsuits. The bill allowed only certain cases to proceed when the doctor exhibited "gross negligence or willful misconduct," which...
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Medication errors and heart disease
A recent study conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that fifty percent of heart patients make medical mistakes upon leaving the hospital. The mistakes range from forgetting to take certain drugs to taking too many pills in one day.
Which begs the question: Can some...
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Barry Packin and Bruce Nagel settle medical malpractice suit for $875,000
July 3, 2012 - Barry Packin and Bruce Nagel settle medical malpractice suit for $875,000. Warren Sistaro, a landscaper in his mid-forties, experienced pain in his mid-back. He was referred to Seth Kane, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon. In January 2007, Dr. Kane took lumbar x-rays in his office and reported them...
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Man with Misdiagnosed Tumor Settles for 875,000
July 3, 2012 - Barry Packin and Bruce Nagel settle medical malpractice suit for $875,000.
Warren Sistaro, a landscaper in his mid-forties, experienced pain in his mid-back. He was referred to Seth Kane, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon. In January 2007, Dr. Kane took lumbar x-rays in his office and reported them to be normal....
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