Medical Malpractice

• Unraveling the Myth of "Defensive Medicine"

  Jordan Margolis | February 25, 2012 3:19 PM | 1 CommentCook County, IL

  For years, Republican politicians, physicians, personal injury defense attorneys, and other parties with a vested interest in tort reform have been lobbying for government intervention in the...

• A New and Improved Way to Burden Victims Instead of Those at Fault: NY Public Health Law 2999-h[1]

  Jordan Margolis | April 27, 2011 1:09 PM | 1 CommentCook County, IL

  New York's Governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, has taken revenge on opponents of his mission to enact caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. Gov. Cuomo successfully garnered legislators'...

• Reforming Tort Reform After the Mid-term Elections: Reality vs. Politicking

  Jordan Margolis | February 28, 2011 5:24 PM | 2 CommentsCook County, IL

  Medical malpractice tort reform is a familiar yet controversial topic that has been making its way back into the spotlight due to November's mid-term elections and the recent federal health care...

• Choosing the Right Hospital

  Kristina Labanauskas | April 26, 2010 4:11 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Each year, the same magazine well-known for its annual reviews of colleges and universities, U.S. News & World Report, puts out a list of the top 50 hospitals in a wide range of...

• Eye doctor barred from doing LASIK surgeries

  Barry Doyle | March 07, 2010 7:41 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The Illinois Department of Professional Regulation has recently barred another eye doctor from doing LASIK procedures, among other disciplinary actions. This doctor had previously been sued 50...

• Mother Sues After Four-Month Old Died From Cough Medicine

  Jenny Albano | November 15, 2007 4:49 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Dimitria Alvarez's four-month old son died from taking over-the-counter cough and cold medicines on Oct. 8, 2001, and she has since sued the two sued two distributors of the drugs, claiming they should have known the dangers of the main ingredient and cautioned consumers.The lawsuit filed Wednesday is one of the first since Federal Drug Administration hearings last month where health experts...

• Hospital sued for medication error

  Barry Doyle | June 13, 2007 2:30 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Missouri hospital has been sued by the parents of one of its patients after the 8-year old girl received the wrong medication. The girl had been prescribed israpidine but was given risperdal instead.The girl suffered brain damage and kidney damage and will eventually require a kidney transplant."Sound-alike" medications cause the potential for medication errors. This arises from the custom...

• Judge rules medication errors caused by workload

  Barry Doyle | June 02, 2007 9:52 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  At a recent administrative law hearing for unemployment benefits, a judge ruled that a nurse's discharge was not for cause -- even though she made many errors in the care of patients under her charge -- because the errors were the result of the multiple responsibilities that had been placed on the nurse. Therefore, the judge awrded unemployment benefits that the hospital had been contesting.The...

• Medication dispensing errors in Texas

  Barry Doyle | May 25, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Houston TV station ran a segement recently on the occurrence of medication dispensing errors at local pharmacies, and the apparently lax discipline of pharamcists who make dispensing errors.In one instance, a cancer patient was prescribed medication to be taken four time per week, but was given instructions by the pharamcist to take four times daily. The cancer patient suffered permanent...

• Medication error kills patient

  Barry Doyle | May 21, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Montana nurse admitted to a coroner's inquest that she adminstered a wrong medication to a patient who died shortly after receiving the drug. The patient came to trhe emergency room of the hospital with difficulty breathing. The doctor ordered lasix, a diuretic, to help draw out fluid that may have been contributing the respiratory problems.Instead of taking the lasix from the pharmacy, she...