Having a child who suffers a serious injury or illness that requires surgery is nerve wracking and terrifying for parents. Thanks to new technology at Boston Children’s Hospital, doctors now can perform practice surgeries with replicas of their patients’ body parts before ever putting the child to sleep on the operating table. Though the hospital…
Have you ever been forwarded a “safety e-mail” from a concerned friend or relative that warns of the dangers of poisonous air conditioning gasses or some other implausible situation? Just like these e-mails that are repeatedly shared, there are several medical malpractice myths that have been repeated so often that many people take them as…
Not unlike the lighthouses that guard the state of Maine’s rocky shores, medical malpractice lawyers are a stalwart beacon that offer hope to those that are in distress. Recently the company that insures most Maine doctors and hospitals against medical malpractice reported that claims have dropped by more than half over the past decade. The…
It is a widely held misconception that the familiar phrase “First, do no harm” comes from the Hippocratic Oath, an oath many physicians take when they enter medical practice. Today there is no single oath that all physicians take upon entering practice. Just like most people believe the above to be true many also believe…
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Cannon Design) A jury awarded a $16.7 million verdict in a Boston malpractice suit, the largest this year. Johnette Ellis sued a doctor of Brigham and Women’s Hospital for missing evidence of her mother’s cancer in a chest X-ray. She died in August 2008 at the age of 47 from lung…