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"My physician said I only had hemorrhoids." These are the types of words often heard by l malpractice attorneys who handle colon cancer cases. This article explores one such case in which a 27 year old woman with a husband and daughter passed away from colon cancer when her doctor assumed her rectal bleeding was a result of hemorrhoids which led to a seven month delay in her diagnosis. This was enough time for the cancer to become incurable.
Posted: 2010-10-28
Category: Colon Cancer
Teenaged drivers are at increased risk of being involved in a motor vehicle accident. It only takes a cursory glance at recent reports of car accidents involving teenage drivers shows that they may result in major injuries and sometimes fatalities. This article considers several reported major motor vehicle accidents. An attorney who is skilled and experienced in motor vehicle accident claims regarding major injuries and fatalities might be able to help victims and their families.
Posted: 2010-10-25
Category: Current Events
There is a reason for screening men for prostate cancer. It is in order that the cancer can be found early. This article analyzes the reported medical malpractice lawsuit in which a physician, for years, overlooked abnormal screening test results. Because of the time that passed before a diagnosis, the patient’s cancer spread outside the prostate. This meant the patient now had only a 2-3 year life expectancy.
Posted: 2010-09-28
Category: Prostate Cancer
Nearly all individuals when they think they may have a malpractice claim against a physician for the delayed diagnosis of prostate cancer generally consider solely one issue: their doctor made an error. However when lawyers consider a potential claim they additionally take the nature and extent of the injury to the individual into consideration. This article considers one claim in which a physician's actions held up a man's diagnosis and that led to a malpractice claim.
Posted: 2010-09-26
Category: Prostate Cancer
It is not unusual for someone to recall an incident from their own perspective. However, if the event is a motor vehicle accident in which someone was badly injured drivers will sometimes provide a rendition of the accident that is simply a lie - meant to dodge liability for the accident. When this happens it takes a lawyer with the experience and skill to find and establish the truth.
Posted: 2010-09-25
Category: Legal
Bone fractures are not rare in high impact car crashes. And with bone fractures commonly come numerous other injuries that can lead to permanent disabilities. Lawyers who represent these victims need to understand how to determine all the loses endured by the victim (including future losses) and be able to totally pursue all possible defendants and sources of compensation.
Posted: 2010-09-25
Category: Legal
Physicians and nurses are expected to have the knowledge training and experience needed to detect and react to fetal distress. They are also supposed to devote appropriate attention to monitoring their patient throughout labor and delivery. In the event they do not do so their actions may bring about severe harm to the unborn child. In such circumstances they may be liable for medical malpractice.
Posted: 2010-09-21
Category: Pregnancy
High risk pregnancies necessitate thorough observation for symptoms of developing problems. This article reviews a recently published case in which a nurse attempted to induce labor by giving a drug known to bring about the very complication for which the mother was at risk. This caused severe damage to the child and as a result the parents filed a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Posted: 2010-09-21
Category: Pregnancy
Blood in the stool and rectal bleeding can be symptoms of colon cancer. Certain doctors fail to exclude the possibility of colon cancer and diagnose such issues as resulting from hemorrhoids. Tragically, in some of these situations, the individual is ultimately diagnosed afterwards with metastatic colon cancer. In cases like this, the patient might have a claim for malpractice.
Posted: 2010-09-21
Category: Colon Cancer
Doctors typically use two tests to screen male patients for prostate cancer. The first is the digital examination. The second is the PSA blood test. Most doctors recognize that abnormal results require follow up. This article considers why a patient may have a l malpractice lawsuit if a doctor screens a patient for cancer yet does not inform the patient or follow up after the tests show abnormal results.
Posted: 2010-09-21
Category: Prostate Cancer
Group B Strep is reportedly the most frequent source of sepsis and meningitis in newborns. Meningitis is a dangerous illness of the fluid of the spinal cord and the fluid surrounding the brain. Even if the newborn survives the infection the newborn may endure lifelong disabilities. These may include, for example, brain damage. A birth injury lawyer can assist you in determining if a doctor is liable for medical malpractice for your child's meningitis related disability.
Posted: 2010-09-20
Category: Pregnancy
The death of a child in childbirth is a traumatic happening for a parent. This post analyzes a medical malpractice lawsuit in which a doctor ridiculed the mother for requesting a C-section after being unable to deliver naturally and them decided to employ a vacuum extractor but did so the wrong way and killed the child in the process.
Posted: 2010-09-20
Category: Pregnancy
Although most patients understand the need for inexperienced doctors and nurses to gain experience by treating actual patients, they anticipate that physicians and nurses in training will be thoroughly supervised and will not interpret critical test results before mastering the skill required. This article examines a reported lawsuit alleging that a nurse trainee made a mistake in reading the results of a fetal heart rate monitor and consequently the baby developed cerebral palsy.
Posted: 2010-09-20
Category: Pregnancy
This article considers a reported case where a doctor in essence abandoned his pregnant patient who experienced a placental abruption that resulted in fetal distress and the death of her unborn child while a nurse who noticed the complication deteriorate failed to tell a different doctor of what was going on when the first physician did not appear. The unborn child did not live and the parents filed a claim against the obstetrician and nurse for the death of the child.
Posted: 2010-09-19
Category: Pregnancy
While in labor the unborn baby’s umbilical cord can become compressed. As this occurs, the baby can experience asphyxia as the oxygen supply is blocked. Failing to detect an umbilical cord compression and not taking timely and correct measures, including the repositioning of the woman, giving her oxygen and fluids, and if these fail, doing an emergency C-stion, can bring about brain damage in the child or possibly to the death of the child. Should this happen the family may have the ability to succeed in a lawsuit against the doctor or nurse responsible.
Posted: 2010-09-19
Category: Pregnancy
Imagine being harmed in a motor vehicle accident merely to have the driver defendant who hit you allege that you caused the accident. If no bystander witnessed the accident it may appear that the case will rest entirely on the credibility of the plaintiff versus the defendant. This article explores how such a situation was settled by use of an expert witness.
Posted: 2010-09-19
Category: Legal
The majority of people view crosswalks as a safe spot to cross the street. The law usually provides pedestrians in crosswalks the right of way. Drivers are given notice by the markings and, in several areas, the crosswalks are also controlled by lights or signs. Yet far too many accidents include pedestrians struck as they are in a crosswalk. Pedestrian accidents may lead to fractures, limb amputations and even death. In what follows we look at various claims arising out of such accidents.
Posted: 2010-08-28
Category: Legal
Due to the amount of time it can take from the time a woman is admitted to the hospital for labor and delivery before the baby is born nurses are sometimes responsible for checking the pregnant woman's progress. Nurses are supposed to identify symptoms of complications and maintain the doctor up to date of any developments. Failure to do so might lead to damage to the baby and may make the nurse liable in a malpractice case.
Posted: 2010-08-28
Category: Pregnancy
Typically physicians concur that raised PSA levels trigger a need to notify the patient and to order more testing to establish if it is due to prostate cancer. In case the patient does have prostate cancer not telling the patient and letting time go by absent diagnostic testing risks allowing the cancer to spread. In the event that this takes place the patient might be able to pursue a medical malpractice claim against the doctor.
Posted: 2010-08-28
Category: Prostate Cancer
It is difficult for anyone to cope with a diagnosis of cancer. But envision discovering that you have metastatic prostate cancer and that your doctor could have diagnosed your cancer earlier, at a time when the cancer was still curable. This article explores the settlement of reported malpractice cases that alleged such a delay in diagnosis.
Posted: 2010-08-25
Category: Prostate Cancer
Fetal distress is a serious medical situation that indicates the health of an unborn baby is in danger. This condition requires that physicians and nurses be able to identify the signs and take measures immediately to counteract the condition or deliver the child, possibly requiring an emergency C-section. The failure to do so could lead to severe injury to the baby and the doctors and nurses responsible may be liable for a medical malpractice case.
Posted: 2010-08-23
Category: Pregnancy
This article analyzes a wrongful death lawsuit which alleged that a woman's family doctor and gastroenterologist did not detect her colorectal cancer while in the early stages even though she had symptoms. This ended in the metastasis of her cancer and her eventual death. The law firm that handled the wrongful death lawsuit obtained a $2,000,000 recovery for her family.
Posted: 2010-08-23
Category: Colon Cancer
A Group B Strep infection in a baby can lead to devastating long term injuries or even the death of the child. One way a baby may be infected is by transmission of the bacteria from the mother. This post looks at the report of a claim which was based on the position that that a doctor did not administer antibiotics although the doctor had information that the pregnant woman had one of the known risk factors that she might transmit the bacteria to her baby.
Posted: 2010-08-23
Category: Pregnancy
This post examnies the issues that come up, including the possibility of of a malpractice case, when a doctor fails to perform proper diagnostic testing subsequent to the report by a female patient of noticing a mass in her breast.
Posted: 2010-08-21
Category: Breast Cancer
What if you let your doctors know you were exhibiting symptoms that might be because of prostate cancer for five years; your physicians observe your symptoms and record abnormal screening test results during that period; however your physicians failed to redo a biopsy following the first time you reported symptoms. Now envision discovering that now you have metastatic prostate cancer. Exactly such a scenario and the ensuing malpractice claim are examined in this article.
Posted: 2010-08-21
Category: Prostate Cancer
The majority of doctors would normally agree that if a doctor is assessing a pregnant woman with pain in the back and abdomen and also vaginal bleeding the possibility of a placental abruption ought to be considered in in attempting to get to an appropriate diagnosis. Not doing so can result in loss of the baby and may constitute malpractice.
Posted: 2010-08-21
Category: Pregnancy
Under certain circumstances drivers are not responsible for car accidents. This article examines a case where the accident was caused not by the drivers involved but rather by the elimination of road signs at an intersection. Determining and suing those liable for the taking away of the signs ended in a considerable settlement for the seriously injured plaintiff.
Posted: 2010-08-20
Category: Cars
"My doctor said I only had hemorrhoids." That is how too many cases of medical malpractice or possibly wrongful death start out. This article considers a claim involving a twenty-seven year old woman with a husband and child passed away from colon cancer when her physician decided her her reports of blood in the stool were because of hemorrhoids. This led to a 7 month delay in her diagnosis. This was sufficient time for the cancer to become incurable.
Posted: 2010-07-18
Category: Colon Cancer
A birth injury known as Erb’s palsy may leave a newborn with an atrophied arm. In some cases there are clues throughout the pregnancy that the unborn child will be large and might have a complicated vaginal birth. This article examnies one such matter and the ensuing documented malpractice case which claimed that doctors had such knowledge yet failed to make an effort to avoid the injury from occurring. The claim was settled in the amount of $900,000
Posted: 2010-07-18
Category: Pregnancy
Being told by a doctor that one has hemorrhoids and there is no need to worry about blood in the stool can be very reassuring. But, the blood may actually be due to colon cancer which may then go undetected until it metastasizes and is no longer curable. This article considers how a delayed diagnosis because a physician incorrectly assumed that blood was from hemorrhoids might result in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Posted: 2010-07-18
Category: Colon Cancer
If a doctor screens a patient for cancer the doctor is required to follow the correct screening protocol. And when several doctors are consulted and the findings and recommendations are not communicated to the patient or the other physicians there is a risk of misdiagnosis. This can expose the doctors liable for medical malpractice.
Posted: 2010-07-15
Category: Prostate Cancer
Approximately forty eight thousand individuals will die from colon cancer this year. Many of these fatalities may have been avoided with early diagnosis and treatment by means of standard colon cancer screening tests. Tragically, certain doctors neglect to advocate routine colon cancer screening to their patients. This might fall below the standard of care and result in a malpractice case.
Posted: 2010-07-07
Category: Colon Cancer
There are two medical mistakes that physicians seem to make most often in relation to diagnosing breast cancer. As a result of these mistakes, a female patient's cancer might not be discovered until it has reached an advanced stage. A doctor who makes such an error and consequently holds up the detection of the patient's breast cancer until it is metastatic may be liable for malpractice.
Posted: 2010-07-07
Category: Breast Cancer
A group b strep infection might bring about devastating harm to a baby . It is therefore critical for physicians to take it into account as part of the differential diagnosis if newborns show symptoms. This article reviews a malpractice case filed by a mother whose child was left with lifelong disabilities due to a doctor’s failure to do so and to promptly treat the baby.
Posted: 2010-07-07
Category: Pregnancy
It is not uncommon for lawyers who handle pedestrian accident cases to come across a matter in which the defendant to blame for the accident offers an account of the accident that places responsibility for the accident on the plaintiff. There are cases in which the use of an accident reconstruction expert can make the difference between winning and losing the lawsuit. Still, occasionally, all a lawyer requires is to use a bit of common sense to show the truth of what really took place.
Posted: 2010-07-07
Category: Society
During labor the unborn baby’s umbilical cord can become compressed. Once this happens, the unborn child can suffer asphyxia as the oxygen supply is restricted. In case a doctor or nurse misses the signs of significant umbilical cord compression and does not take proper measures, for example repositioning the mother, administration of oxygen and fluids, or if required, an emergency C-section, the child may develop brain damage or perhaps die, and the doctor or nurse may be liable for malpractice.
Posted: 2010-07-06
Category: Pregnancy
None of us want to be told that we or someone in our family has prostate cancer. It is stressful enough to get that diagnosis. It is considerably worse when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body and treatment can at best slow down the progress of the cancer.. But to furthermore find out that a doctor had information a year or more before the diagnosis that could have permitted early detection of the cancer. By not following up on that information the physician took away the possibility of a cure and when that happens the doctor may be liable for medical malpractice and in some cases a wrongful death case.
Posted: 2010-07-05
Category: Prostate Cancer
Many men and women reluctantly agree to undergo a colonoscopy to check if they have colon cancer. This article reviews a lawsuit that alleged a patient passed away from colon cancer because her cancer spread while her doctor kept assuring her, during a 6 year period, that she only had hemorrhoids despite the fact that her colonoscopies were incomplete and her colon was never totally examined.
Posted: 2010-07-05
Category: Colon Cancer
An Erb’s palsy injury can leave a newborn with a serious permanent disability. It can incluce the loss of motor control, sensation and possibly even the use of an arm. Although , it may be due to the use of too much force by the doctor who delivered the infant. In such cases, the doctor might be liable for medical malpractice. This article discusses how.
Posted: 2010-07-04
Category: Pregnancy
Doctors normally employ two tests to screen male patients for prostate cancer. The first is the digital examination. The second is the PSA blood test. Most doctors acknowledge that abnormal results require follow up. This article considers why a patient may be able to pursue a medical malpractice claim if a physician screens a patient for cancer however fails to tell the patient or follow up when the tests show abnormal results.
Posted: 2010-07-01
Category: Prostate Cancer
People normally view crosswalks as a safe place to cross the street. The law typically gives pedestrians in crosswalks the right of way. Drivers are given notice by the markings and, in several places, the crosswalks are also governed by lights or signs. But far too many accidents include pedestrians struck as they are in a crosswalk. Attorneys experienced and skilled in taking on such cases realize that these claims can be complex, involve significant injuries to the pedestrian, and lead to significant compensation for the pedestrian.
Posted: 2010-07-01
Category: Society
Given the amount of time it can take from the time a woman is admitted to the hospital for labor and delivery until the infant is born nurses are sometimes responsible for checking the expectant mother's labor and delivery. Nurses are expected to identify indications of problems and maintain the doctor informed of any developments. Not doing so could result in an injury to the child and might make the nurse liable in a malpractice lawsuit.
Posted: 2010-07-01
Category: Pregnancy
Most doctors agree that elevated PSA levels produce a need to inform the patient and to order additional testing to find out if it is due to prostate cancer. If the patient does have prostate cancer not telling the patient and allowing time to go by without diagnostic testing risks letting the cancer to spread. In the event that this takes place the patient might be able to pursue a medical malpractice case against the physician.
Posted: 2010-06-29
Category: Prostate Cancer
This article examines a malpractice case based on the allegation that physicians and nurses either failed to realize or overlooked indications that the unborn child of a pregnant woman in labor was in fetal distress that needed action immediately. Consequently, the newborn went through a prolonged period of oxygen deprivation and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The case was reported by the law firm that handed it as settled for $4,000,000.
Posted: 2010-06-29
Category: Pregnancy
Group B Strep is reportedly the most prevalent source of sepsis and meningitis in infants. Meningitis is a serious illness of the fluid of the spinal cord and the fluid surrounding the brain. Even when the infant survives the infection the baby may be left with lasting disabilities. These may involve, for example, blindness. A birth injury lawyer can assist you in determining if a doctor is liable for medical malpractice for your infant's meningitis related disability.
Posted: 2010-06-29
Category: Pregnancy
There is a reason for screening men for prostate cancer. It is so that the cancer can be found early. Consider the reported malpractice case in which a doctor, for years, ignored abnormal screening test results. As a result of the time that passed before a diagnosis, the man's cancer grew outside the prostate. This meant the patient now had only a 2-3 year life expectancy.
Posted: 2010-06-27
Category: Prostate Cancer
Being told by a physician that one just has hemorrhoids and there is no need to worry about blood in the stool can be very comforting. However, the blood may actually be due to colon cancer which might then go undetected until it metastasizes and and treatment is no longer an option. If this happens, the physician might have committed medical malpractice and the person might have a claim against that physician.
Posted: 2010-06-27
Category: Colon Cancer
This article reviews a lawsuit in which an insurance company adjuster made a low ball settlement offer to a bicyclist hurt in a motor vehicle accident. In particular the article talks about the issues that likely impacted the size of the offer and the steps that resulted in a jury verdict greater than half a million dollars above the offer.
Posted: 2010-06-24
Category: Society
This article reviews a reported medical malpractice claim that resulted after two doctors misread two different mammograms as showing no signs of cancer. As a result the woman's cancer went undetected for years. When it was finally diagnosed it had already reached an advanced stage. The matter went to trial and a jury awarded her a verdict of $12,000,000
Posted: 2010-06-24
Category: Breast Cancer
Envision being hurt in a vehicle accident just to have the driver defendant who struck you assert that you caused the accident. When no one witnessed the accident it may seem that the matter will be decided entirely on the credibility of the plaintiff versus the defendant. With some of these cases an experienced and skilled attorney may be able to use an expert to disprove the defendant’s position.
Posted: 2010-06-24
Category: Society
A Group B Strep infection can end in severe injuries to a newborn . It is therefore important for doctors to take it into account in the differential diagnosis if babies exhibit symptoms. This article analyzes a claim pursued by a mother whose child sustained lifelong disabilities as a consequence of a doctor’s failure to do so and to immediately treat the baby.
Posted: 2010-06-24
Category: Pregnancy
"My physician said I only had hemorrhoids." That is how many cases of medical malpractice or possibly wrongful death start. This article explores one such claim in which a twenty-seven year old woman with a husband and daughter died of colon cancer after her physician assumed her her reports of blood in the stool were a result of hemorrhoids. As a result, her cancer was not detected for seven months, was enough time for the cancer to become incurable.
Posted: 2010-06-24
Category: Colon Cancer
An all too common error made by doctors that can lead to truly tragic outcomes. By and large, physicians acknowledge that when an adult patient says they are seeing blood in the stool or rectal bleeding the proper tests ought to be performed as a way to figure out whether the blood as a result of cancer. Only when colon cancer has been eliminated as a possibility should a doctor tell the patient that the blood is due to something else. The error certain physicians make is to assure patients they merely have hemorrhoids having done no testing to eliminate the possibility of cancer.
Posted: 2010-06-22
Category: Colon Cancer
A group b streptococcus infection that is not cured immediately may leave a newborn with devastating permanent disabilities and even lead to the infant's death. If a baby whose mother was positive for GBS develops the infection yet the doctor treating the baby fails to read the prenatal chart and fails to connect the symptoms with the mother’s GBS, the physician may be liable for medical malpractice.
Posted: 2010-06-22
Category: Pregnancy
Due to 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 sometimes in charge of monitoring the expectant mother's progress. Nurses are supposed to spot indications of complications and maintain the doctor informed of any developments. Failure to do so might result in damage to the child and may make the nurse liable in a malpractice lawsuit.
Posted: 2010-06-22
Category: Pregnancy
Generally doctors concur that high PSA levels trigger a need to tell the patient and to follow up with additional testing to establish whether it is due to prostate cancer. Should the patient does have prostate cancer not informing the patient and permitting time to go by absent diagnostic testing risks letting the cancer to spread. In the event that this takes place the patient might be able to pursue a claim against the physician.
Posted: 2010-06-22
Category: Prostate Cancer
It is estimated that nearly 48,000 people will die of colorectal cancer this year.. Many of these fatalities might have been prevented with early diagnosis and treatment by means of standard screening . However, some physicians fail to advocate routine colon cancer screening to patients. This may fall below the standard of care and lead to a medical malpractice case.
Posted: 2010-06-21
Category: Colon Cancer
Fetal distress is a serious medical situation that means the health of an unborn child is at risk. This situation calls for physicians and nurses recognize the indications and take steps immediately to counteract the situation or deliver the infant, possibly calling for an emergency C-section. The failure to do so could end up in considerable injury to the baby and the doctors and nurses responsible may be liable for a malpractice lawsuit.
Posted: 2010-06-21
Category: Pregnancy
Drivers are not always to blame for motor vehicle accidents. This article looks at a lawsuit in which the accident was caused not by the drivers concerned but rather by the removal of road signs at an intersection. Finding and suing those to blame for the taking away of the signs resulted in a significant settlement for the seriously hurt victim.
Posted: 2010-06-21
Category: Society
This article analyzes a reported malpractice case alleging 3 doctors involved in the care of a man with urinary complaints did not detect his prostate cancer. The doctors made diagnostic errors and failed to appropriately communicate test results and advice to the man and to one other. By the time the man was diagnosed he had advanced prostate cancer.
Posted: 2010-06-21
Category: Prostate Cancer
An Erb’s palsy injury can leave an infant with a severe lifelong disability. It can incluce the loss of motor control, sensation and maybe even the use of an arm. While the injury may not have been preventable, it might be due to excessive pressure by the physician who delivered the infant. Under those circumstances, the physician might be liable for malpractice. This article examines how.
Posted: 2010-06-21
Category: Pregnancy
High risk pregnancies call for thorough observation for clues of developing problems. This article reviews a recently reported claim in which a nurse tried to induce labor by use of a medication known to produce the same complication for which the pregnant woman was at risk. This led to severe damage to the baby and as a result the parents pursued a medical malpractice case.
Posted: 2010-06-20
Category: Pregnancy
The diagnosis of a woman’s breast cancer might be not occur until the cancer is metastatic because of any of various mistakes by her doctor. Two such errors are generally made by physicians most frequently – the misdiagnosis of a mass in the breast as a benign cyst and the misreading of a mammogram. When either error is made by a doctor and there is a sufficient delay in the diagnosis of the woman's breast cancer, she may have a medical malpractice claim against that doctor.
Posted: 2010-06-20
Category: Breast Cancer
It is not uncommon for lawyers who help pedestrians hurt in motor vehicle accident claims to encounter a matter where the defendant to blame for the accident presents a version of the accident that places responsibility for the accident on the plaintiff. There are cases in which the use of an accident reconstruction expert might make all the diffeence in the claim. Still, occasionally, all an attorney requires is to use a bit of common sense to demonstrate the truth of what really happened.
Posted: 2010-06-19
Category: Society
This article considers a reported lawsuit where an obstetrician was absent while his patient suffered a placental abruption that led to fetal distress and the death of her unborn child while a nurse who noticed the complication worsen did not alert another physician of what was taking place when the first obstetrician did not turn up. The baby did not survive and the parents filed a lawsuit against the physician and nurse for the loss of the baby.
Posted: 2010-06-17
Category: Pregnancy
There is a reason why doctors order blood tests. An abnormal result may indicate that something is wrong. The doctor then needs to follow up to establish the reason the results are abnormal. In one recorded lawsuit a person's physician did not follow up and as a result delayed the person's diagnosis of colon cancer until it had reached an advanced stage.
Posted: 2010-06-17
Category: Colon Cancer
What if you let your doctors know you were showing symptoms that could be a result of prostate cancer for 5 years; your physicians monitor your symptoms and record abnormal screening test outcomes in that period; nevertheless your doctors failed to redo a biopsy after the first year. Then imagine discovering that currently you have prostate cancer metastasis. Specifically this type of situation and the resulting malpractice claim are reviewed in this article.
Posted: 2010-06-17
Category: Prostate Cancer
Physicians normally employ 2 tests to screen men for prostate cancer - the digital examination of the prostate and the PSA blood test. Most doctors concur that abnormal results require follow up. This article considers why a patient might be able to pursue a medical malpractice case if a doctor tests a patient for cancer but does not tell the patient or follow up afterthe test results reveal the possibility of cancer.
Posted: 2010-06-16
Category: Prostate Cancer
It is not easy for anyone to deal with a diagnosis of cancer. Now envision discovering that you have metastatic prostate cancer and that your doctor could have diagnosed your cancer earlier, at a time when the cancer was still curable. This article examines the settlement of published medical malpractice claims that alleged such a delay in diagnosis.
Posted: 2010-06-15
Category: Prostate Cancer
There is a great deal at stake in claims involving a pedestrian fatality from a car accident. Defendants and their insurance companies aggressively defend these claims in order to minimize the amount they will have to pay. Attorneys for plaintiffs realize that they also have the burden of not only proving the lawsuit but also of persuading the insurance company adjuster(s) that settlement is in the best interest of the insurance company by reducing the possibility of an adverse verdict.
Posted: 2010-06-14
Category: Society
An Erb’s palsy injury can leave a newborn with a serious irreversible disability. It can incluce the loss of motor control, sensation and maybe even the use of an arm. While it is possible that the injury was inevitable, it might be as a result of the application of too much force by the physician who delivered the child. When this takes place, the physician might be liable for malpractice. This article discusses how.
Posted: 2010-06-13
Category: Pregnancy
An all too frequent error made by doctors that can lead to truly tragic outcomes. By and large, physicians concur that when an adult individual complains of blood in the stool or rectal bleeding the proper tests, such as a colonoscopy, ought to be completed so as to find out if the blood as a result of cancer. Only when colon cancer has been eliminated as a possibility should a physician tell the person that the blood is due to something diffrent. The mistake certain doctors make is to tell patients they simply have hemorrhoids without doing any tests.
Posted: 2010-06-13
Category: Society
It is not unusual for attorneys who handle pedestrian accident claims to encounter a matter where the defendant responsible for the accident gives an account of the accident that blames the victim for the accident. At times retaining an accident reconstruction expert might make all the diffeence in the case. Often, though, using merely a bit of common sense and ability the lawyer can demonstrate that the defendant was actually at fault.
Posted: 2010-06-13
Category: Society
High risk pregnancies necessitate careful monitoring for symptoms of developing complications. This article considers a recently reported claim in which a nurse tried to induce labor by giving a drug known to bring about the same problem for which the pregnant woman was at risk. This led to serious harm to the child and resulted in a medical malpractice claim.
Posted: 2010-06-13
Category: Society
There is a reason why men are screened for prostate cancer. It is in order that the cancer can be found early. This article examines the published malpractice claim in which a physician, for years, ignored abnormal screening test results. Due to the time that passed before a diagnosis, the patient’s cancer grew outside the prostate. This meant the patient now had only a 2-3 year life expectancy.
Posted: 2010-06-13
Category: Society
