In 2010 an Australian law court found in favor a man who blamed the recalled drug for a heart attack he suffered. That ruling now seems to have been overturned in appeal; a win for Merck and its problem Vioxx product…
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Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on October 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
A total of 606 Canadian physicians were disciplined by their provincial medical licensing authorities between 2000 and 2009, researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital found. The majority of disciplined physicians were men (92 per cent) who had been practicing medicine for a long time (an average of 28.9 years) and were independent practitioners (99 per cent), […]
Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on October 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
In a letter and briefing paper addressed to every peer in the House of Lords, BMA’s chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum this week repeated the call for the Health and Social Care Bill in England to be withdrawn, or at least to undergo further substantial amendment. The second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill […]
Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on October 8th, 2011 | No Comments »
Professor David Studdert from the Melbourne School of Population Health and Melbourne Law School and co-authors reviewed nearly 2000 negligence claims against doctors insured by Avant Mutual Group Limited and complaints lodged with the Health Services Commissioner of Victoria between January 2002 and December 2008…
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Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on September 21st, 2011 | No Comments »
How doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can be better prepared to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient care is the focus of several studies published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied…
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Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on September 13th, 2011 | No Comments »
Police have charged a teenager with posing as a physician’s assistant at a central Florida hospital. They arrested 17-year-old Matthew Scheidt on Friday, after he allegedly spent five days at the Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, where according to a police report, he examined patients, provided care and had access […]
Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on September 7th, 2011 | No Comments »
After dropping charges against a suspected nurse on Friday, UK’s Greater Manchester Police (GMP) revealed they plan to interview 500 more people in connection with suspicious deaths and up to 40 cases of patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Cheshire, being poisoned after saline drips were found to be contaminated with […]
Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on September 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has concluded its investigation into STD (sexually transmitted disease) experiments carried out in Guatemala in the 1940s without people’s consent. The US government had deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans, including mentally ill patients and prisoners, with gonorrhea and syphilis in an experiment to test some STD […]
Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on August 30th, 2011 | No Comments »
While most U.S. physicians will face a malpractice lawsuit at some time in their careers, a new study finds, the vast majority of those suits will not result in payment to a plaintiff…
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Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on August 19th, 2011 | No Comments »
Among specialties with a high risk of a malpractice claim, nearly all physicians will have a malpractice claim by the time they turn 65 years of age, but the likelihood of litigation is much greater for neurosurgeons than it is for psychiatrists and about three out of every four malpractice claims are resolved with no […]
Filed under: Medical Malpractice / Litigation on August 18th, 2011 | No Comments »