Articles in Medical malpractice
Gross Medical Malpractice: Wrong Body Part Hospital Errors Increasing
The Joint Commission, a Chicago-based group that accredits the nation’s hospitals, estimates, based on state data, that wrong-site surgery occurs 40 times a week in the U.S., as reported by the Washington Post in an extensive article on these medical errors.
Danger of Excessive Radiation From Hospital Radiation Therapy Profiled
While new radiation technologies have brought benefits, they have also created new avenues for error in software and operation. A single error can be repeated in multiple radiation sessions for scores of patients, triggering new cancers and other injuries for patients.
California medical malpractice law in spotlight; “250 cases” cause dismay
California’s malpractice award caps effectively leave many injured and even killed by medical malpractice without legal recourse.
