When many people think about medical malpractice, they think of surgical errors — the national stories that involve a doctor amputated the wrong foot of a patient or a physician leaving a medical instrument behind in a patient’s chest cavity. However, some of the most common medical malpractice cases don’t focus on what a doctor…
Jim Lewis, posted a blog on tPA or Plat, a stroke medicine that could prevent brain damage from occuring if diagnosed and treated in time. This blog is about how a new study suggests that there could actually be more time for you to be diagnosed and still recieve the medication before its too late.
The United States food and drug administration has issued a new warning relating to complications arising from placement of surgical mesh through incisions made in the wall of the vagina. These surgical/medical mesh devices are placed trans-vaginally. According to the FDA, ” the most frequent complications included erosion through the vagina, infection, pain, urinary problems…
After having a scalpel blade in his hand for the last decade, a West Virginian man is trying to sue the doctor who accidentally left it there. However, the state’s statute of limitations laws are a problem.
The EVMS Academic Physicians and Surgeons Health Services Foundation was denied charitable immunity by the Virginia Supreme Court and is now not protected from medical malpractice lawsuits.