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It is estimated that nearly thirty nive thousand people will die of colorectal cancer this year.. Many of these fatalities might have been avoided with early detection and treatment by standard colon cancer screening tests. Tragically, certain doctors do not suggest routine colon cancer screening to patients. This might constitute medical malpractice and result in a lawsuit.
Posted: 2011-02-03
Category: Colon Cancer
Colorectal cancer is a major killer of both men and women. The longer the cancer has to spread the more difficult it is to treat it. This post briefly explores some of the treatments most generally advised by doctors and what can happen if a physician does not recommend the correct treatment. In certain instances, that physician might be at risk of a lawsuit.
Posted: 2011-01-29
Category: Colon Cancer
This year up to 32,000 men will die from of stage 4 prostate cancer. How many of these men would survive had their doctor conducted screening tests or did not recommend “watchful waiting” after abnormal prostate cancer screening tests revealed he may have cancer. This article considers this issue.
Posted: 2010-12-29
Category: Prostate Cancer
Expectant parents almost universally wish for one thing: that their child be born healthy. In this note we study two reported cases in which a pregnant woman who had already been admitted to the hospital had a complication which the medical staff failed to recognize and therefore failed to take action in time to prevent the stillbirth
Posted: 2010-12-29
Category: Pregnancy
Given the amount of time it can take from the time a woman is admitted to the hospital for labor and delivery until the baby is born nurses are often responsible for checking the pregnant woman's progress. Nurses are expected to recognize indications of complications and keep the physician up to date of any developments. Failure to do so may lead to damage to the baby and might make the nurse liable in a malpractice case.
Posted: 2010-12-29
Category: Pregnancy
Envision informing your physicians about symptoms that might be a result of prostate cancer for five years; your physicians monitor your symptoms and record abnormal screening test results during that period; nevertheless your physicians failed to redo a biopsy following the first year. Now contemplate learning that after that delay you have metastatic prostate cancer. Specifically this type of situation and the resulting wrongful death case are discussed in this article.
Posted: 2010-12-28
Category: Prostate Cancer
A infant with a Group B Streptococcus infection is at serious risk of developing sepsis, pneumonia or meningitis - that, in turn, may result in extreme disabilities or the loss of the newborn. It is known that a pregnant woman who is a carrier may transmit the bacteria to her newbornless antibiotics are administered during labor. A physician's failure to take proper steps to substantially reduce the risk of that happening in a situation where the baby is at risk may constitute malpractice.
Posted: 2010-12-28
Category: Pregnancy
There is a reason why physicians order blood tests. If a patient’s blood tests come back abnormally high or low this may indicate that there is something wrong. Follow up is then necessary to figure out the reason the results are abnormal. In one reported lawsuit a person's physician did not follow up and hence delayed the patient's diagnosis of colon cancer until it had reached an advanced stage.
Posted: 2010-12-26
Category: Colon Cancer
Suppose you or the driver of a motor vehicle in which you are a passenger comply with all the standard rules of the road and all posted signs or controls. Withtout any carelessness, though, a serious accident takes place which leaves you a significant and lifelong disability. This article examines how the law firm that handled such a lawsuit identified those responsible for changing the road conditions and achieved a significant settlement.
Posted: 2010-12-26
Category: Society
Different people don’t always remember an event the same way. In trucking accident lawsuits, though, at times those responsible for the accident try to protect themselves from liability by inventing a false story of how the accident occured. This article explores one strategy to coping with this kind of defendant.
Posted: 2010-12-26
Category: Society
A monoamniotic-monochorionic twin pregnancy is a high risk pregnancy where twins are developing in one amniotic sac. This article will examine a malpractice case ın which a pregnant woman with this type of pregnancy was not checked adequately, ending up with the death of one twin and considerable brain injury of the other twin. The medical malpractice matter ended in a $3,000,000 recovery for the family.
Posted: 2010-12-26
Category: Pregnancy
Experienced motor vehicle accident lawyers understand that each lawsuit is distinct. This article draws a number of worthwhile lessons from a study of three lawsuits. With these lessons in mind, an attorney dealing with such a matter will better realize how to evaluate the claim and the way to reach all possible sources of recovery.
Posted: 2010-12-26
Category: Society
This article reviews a case which alleged that a woman's primary care physician and gastroenterologist failed to diagnose her colorectal cancer in a timely fashion despite the fact that the woman had symptoms. the delay was responsible for the spread of her cancer and her eventual death. The law firm that represented her family obtained a $2,000,000 recovery for her family.
Posted: 2010-12-24
Category: Colon Cancer
Most doctors recognize that raised PSA levels create a need to tell the patient and to order more testing to find out whether it is due to prostate cancer. Should the patient does have prostate cancer not informing the patient and permitting time to go by without diagnostic testing risks letting the cancer to spread. When this occurs the patient may have a medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctor.
Posted: 2010-12-22
Category: Prostate Cancer
Doctors typically use 2 tests to screen male patients for prostate cancer - the physical examination of the prostate and the PSA blood test. Most physicians acknowledge that abnormal results trigger the need for follow up. This article examines how a patient may be able to pursue a medical malpractice lawsuit should a physician tests a patient for cancer yet fails to inform the patient or follow up after the tests come back abnormal.
Posted: 2010-12-22
Category: Prostate Cancer
