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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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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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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