Perforated/Cut Intestine Leads To Brain Damage Following Colonoscopy Complication A Tennessee jury found in favor of a woman who was left with brain damage after a routine colonoscopy, with a $12,000,000.00 verdict. Kristen Freeman was only 30 years old when she had bowel troubles and was ordered to undergo a colonoscopy. Due to complications that arose…
My fellow lawyer Randy Appleton wrote about the decrease in independent doctors and the potential correlation between medical errors. More people die each year from medical errors than car accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. Please click here to learn more about the potential increase in medical negligence/accidents.
My law partner Rick Shapiro wrote about a recent sexual assault in a Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) nursing home. Such deplorable, disgusting acts need to stop but, unfortunately, they are not uncommon in Virginia (VA). Please click here to learn more about this terrible nursing home abuse situation.
I have written a series of articles focusing on simple methods of preventing injuries/medical malpractice in the hospital operating room setting, involving surgical sponges/towels left inside a patient’s body. The medical field calls this “retained sponge” situations, but patients suffering this malpractice just find out that they have a major infection and need to have…
A great result in a medical negligence case was recently achieved in the Spotsylvania Circuit Court of Virginia in a wrongful death case about a doctor’s error in treatment. According to an article that appeared in Virginia Lawyers Weekly, a jury awarded $7.5 million to the husband of a registered nurse who died from breast cancer. Eleanor Browder had noticed a lump in her breast
and had gone to see her family practitioner from Lee’s Hill Medical Associates in May 2003.