Pennsylvania’s nursing home facilities have been in the news for years and the reports have not been positive. In 2015, Pennsylvania made history when the state attorney general sued the Golden Living nursing home chain for among other things, failing to provide basic care for nursing home residents. The lawsuit prompted Golden Living to transfer […]
According to the Pennsylvania Medical Society, there were 107 medical liability cases tried to a jury in Pennsylvania in 2017. This number may seem to indicate that medical malpractice rates are relatively low in Pennsylvania, however, these numbers do not include cases that were settled prior to trial or before a lawsuit was even filed. […]
There are a few precious moments in life. Some would say their wedding day is precious. Others would recall special birthdays or milestones in their life like graduating from a graduate program or landing that dream job. Then there are those who believe that life really isn’t the same anymore, in a good way, when […]
It is something no one really talks about, but as children, one didn’t think about how we would be taking care of our parents one day. Thankfully medicine is getting better and helping people live longer, but getting older does have its challenges. Sometimes when our loved ones get older, they get older in places […]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court seemed like it was about to ease some nearly two-decades-old restrictions on medical malpractice lawsuits. At the request of Pennsylvania Senate leaders, the court has postponed a decision pending legislative research. At hand is whether or not to roll back a 2002 court rule that requires medical malpractice lawsuits to be […]
When you go to see a healthcare professional, you expect to be treated with a high standard of medical care. The last thing you expect is to be misdiagnosed by a person who is highly trained in their field of medicine. How many medical professionals do you see a year? Consider these: Primary care physician […]
When people think about surgery, they tend to get nervous. Maybe they have seen some TV shows that show errors that can be made during a surgical procedure. However, one thing that many people do not think about is just how delicate balance anesthesia is. We know that more than 100 million surgical procedures are […]
We have talked extensively about medical mistakes being the third leading killer in the United States, but there is still controversy about how bad the problem really is. On average, 250,000 lose their lives due to medical mistakes each year, but we do not have solid numbers about how many people live through these mistakes […]
Women have it hard when it comes to medical treatment, especially if women are having children. Women are expected to see the doctor every year for yearly checkups starting in their teens or early 20’s. Women are also supposed to have several checkups during their pregnancy to make sure that they and the baby are […]
A film documentary was created to show the startling dangers of medication errors. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in patients. This means that more people are dying from medication errors than they are from respiratory diseases, accidents, strokes, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, pneumonia, nephritis, and suicide. The first two are heart disease and […]
We wanted to bring you an update to a story we brought you a few months ago about a major medical mistake at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The incident happened in December of 2017 when a nurse intended to give a patient, Charlene Murphey, a routine sedative. Instead, the nurse gave the patient vecuronium, […]
Today, we want to bring you a story that has been in the news day after day lately. It is one that crosses our usual practice area with product liability cases and we think you need to know about it. Have you seen the stories about blood pressure medications and a possible link to cancer? […]
