Hospital Malpractice In The News

A woman who entered a New York hospital with what she thought was a kidney stone and left a quadruple amputee has filed a multi-million dollar malpractice suit.

( Harvard Medical School ) Use of electronic health records may help reduce paid malpractice settlements for physicians.

Dr. Robert C. Raynor was honored at the Nov. 7 Governor football game for 50 years of service to Nelson County High School athletes. Dr. Raynor has performed yearly physicals for athletes as well as been on the sideline of at least one football game for 50 years. He recently retired from Afton Family Medicine, but continues to serve two local nursing homes as the medical director.

The potential closure of Long Island College Hospital has many women eying neonatal and pediatric care at other hospitals, whose OB services are already overwhelmed.

ASHLAND -- KDMC obstetrician/gynecologist Brian Frederick, M.D., and urologist Timothy Dixon, M.D., have earned a special designation by Intuitive Surgical for their accomplishments associated with the use of the da Vinci Surgical System. Intuitive lists on the Web site the names of the physicians who have completed a recommended number of da Vinci cases in the past year, resulting in positive ..

Six months after a near-fatal accident, personal-injury lawyer Brian Loncar is training for triathlons again and taking on another big case – his own.

Don Quixote: Two-term state Senator Don Perata is so confident that his pal, Attorney General Bill Lockyer , will green-light his proposed reelection bid that he's begun trolling his donor list to contribute to his "Perata 2004" campaign.

Use of electronic health records (EHRs) may help reduce paid malpractice settlements for physicians, according to a new study. The study, which appeared in the November 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, showed a trend toward lower paid malpractice claims for physicians who are active users of EHR technology.

The family of a 35-year-old man who died after getting a heart pacemaker won a $4.6 million medical malpractice verdict against three doctors involved in the surgery at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.

BEVERLY and mdash; Beverly Hospital administrators have agreed to meet with members of the community to discuss the future of the North Shore Birth Center. Mother Rebecca Hains, who has been leading a grass-roots campaign to keep the birth center open, said she and four other organizers are arranging to meet with newly appointed interim CEO Henry Ramini and Vice President Chip Payson on the ...