Medical Malpractice
Doctors, nurses and other health care providers spend a great deal of time learning how to treat a great variety of illnesses and physical maladies. As a group they are professionals dedicated to helping alleviate the ailments that can plague mankind. Unfortunately, health care providers can also make mistakes. When mistakes are made the effects can be devastating. In fact, according to the National Academy of Sciences, approximately 98,000 Americans die from "medical mistakes" each year.
Medical malpractice is a form of negligence involving a medical treatment provider. If someone is injured as a result of a treatment provider's digression from the standard of care, that provider may be liable for the injury that has occurred. The determination of whether a medical professional has met the standard of care is based on a comparison to other professionals in the same field and the same geographical region. In other words, what would a reasonably competent medical professional practicing in the same field as the defendant, and in the same area of the defendant, do under the circumstances that the defendant was facing with respect to care and treatment of the patient?
Medical malpractice does not occur every time there is a bad outcome from treatment. It is simply a duty to provide good care according to the accepted standards of the community and/or the accepted standards of a particular medical specialty. The law generally recognizes the practice of medicine as an "art" rather than as an exact science. Therefore, some latitude is given to practitioners with respect to the manner in which they choose to address the problems of specific patients.
If you or a loved one has suffered an injury, illness or death that you suspect was caused by a medical professional, call VanDerGinst Law at 1-866-843-7367 or click here for a FREE online case evaluation. The initial consultation is free of charge. If we agree to handle your injury case, we will work on a contingency fee basis, which means we get paid for our services only if, and when, there is a money recovery for you. In many cases a lawsuit must be filed before an applicable expiration date, known as a statute of limitations. So please call right away to ensure that you do not waive your right to possible compensation.
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| Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 PDT Latest Trial Against Wyeth Hormone Drug Starts In Philadelphia The latest court case exploring the link between Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' hormonal replacement drug Prempro and breast cancer started Tuesday in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT Reform Of Primary Care Could Reduce Costly Diagnostic Errors Errors in diagnosis place a heavy financial burden on an already costly health care system and can be devastating for affected patients. Strengthening certain aspects of a new and evolving model of comprehensive and coordinated primary care could potentially address this highly relevant, but underemphasized safety concern, say Mark Graber, M.D... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:00:00 PDT Rite Aid Agrees To Pay $1 Million To Settle HIPAA Privacy Case Rite Aid Corporation and its 40 affiliated entities (RAC) have agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:00 PDT EEOC Finds Probable Gender Discrimination In Case Brought By New York State Nurses Association The U.S... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:00 PDT GDC Secures Ninth Illegal Practice Prosecution Of 2010, UK The General Dental Council (GDC), the UK's dental regulator, is continuing to push ahead in its pursuit of people practising dentistry illegally. It has successfully prosecuted the ninth person this year for the offence... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:00:00 PDT Federal Prosecutors Drop Long-Standing Fraud Charges Against Doctor From The Philippines "Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a doctor from the Philippines who went into hiding after being accused of scamming a military health program out of more than $1 million in the 1990s," The Associated Press reports. "The U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Wisconsin moved to drop a fraud indictment against Dr... Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
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| Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Must One C-Section Beget Another? Medical Malpractice news and personal injury law information. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Some Tests, Long Ignored, Showed Signs of Heart Illness The results of 4,000 echocardiograms had never been seen by doctors at Harlem Hospital Center because of a practice of allowing technicians to read them first. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Learning to Keep Patients Safe in a Culture of Fear The threat of blame, even malpractice, looms over doctors working to prevent medical errors. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Obama Offers to Use Some G.O.P. Health Proposals The president said that he was open to some Republican concerns, but he would press ahead with the overhaul. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Corrections Correction of picture caption accompanying Feb 7 article about felony trial of nurse who alerted Texas Medical Board that doctor at her hospital was practicing unsafe medicine Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
| Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Small Ideas Won?t Fix It Some of the Republican ideas on health care reform are good, but they would barely make a dent in the system?s most critical problems. Click here to read this Medical Malpractice news article. |
