According to a paper presented at the annual conference for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) last month, a study conducted at five hospitals across the country found that three out of twenty flexible gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopes used for screening were…
By Richard Shapiro, Virginia Personal Injury Attorney A new controversy is waging over an old medical malpractice law in California. A group of trial lawyers, consumer advocates and the nurses union is gathering signatures for a new state ballot initiative to increase California’s cap on…
By Richard Shapiro, Virginia Personal Injury Lawyer A jury in Clayton, MO awarded a man and his wife $6.4 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit that stemmed from a stroke that he had in 2007. The suit alleged that Jeffrey Schneider, 59, had an infection…
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC), is critical of the way doctors are prescribing prescription painkillers to patients. Dr. Tom Friedan says that physicians are relying on these powerful drugs to treat chronic pain when physical therapy, exercise and…
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial discussed the urgent need for Americans to rethink the way they pay doctors for their services. The trick, according to the opinion piece, is exactly how to make the changes. Currently, most doctors are paid for the services they…
The Florida Supreme Court recently issued an important opinion in the world of medical malpractice that will hopefully serve as an example to courts in other states about the serious downsides of...
The Maryland Supreme Court recently ruled that the state’s Good Samaritan law does not relieve commercial ambulance companies from liability in the event of a medical malpractice...
A scary message by Intuitive Surgical Inc., the company that makes the da Vinci surgical robot, has doctors on alert after a potential issue with the machine was uncovered.
Last week the...
The function of the federal agency Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is to safeguard people who participate in government-financed research. The agency recently discovered that a...
Hospitals across the country decided to purchase and utilize a surgical robot called the “da Vinci robot.” Hospitals purchased these robots despite the lack of peer-reviewed evidence...