March 25, 2018
A San Francisco fertility clinic experienced a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank holding thousands of frozen eggs and embryos. The March 4 incident followed a similar malfunction the same weekend at an unrelated clinic in Cleveland where more than 2,000 frozen eggs and embryos may no longer be viable after temperatures in Read More
March 13, 2018
Early diagnosis and treatment of heart attacks in women is critical. A young woman who is hospitalized with a heart attack has a higher risk of death than a man of the same age yet acute heart attack symptoms often go unnoticed in women. More than half of the doctors Read More
October 24, 2017
Pre-eclampsia can have effects long after pregnancy making affected women up to eight times more likely to suffer heart disease. The American Heart Association now recommends women who have had pre-eclampsia be evaluated for heart disease within a year of giving birth. According to one expert, doctors can see heart Read More
May 12, 2017
Myth 3: Physicians Are One Malpractice Verdict Away From Bankruptcy Many physicians seem to believe that malpractice verdicts threaten to wipe out their savings. When assessing this fear, it is appropriate to start by observing that most malpractice cases are settled or dismissed; only about 2% of claims are tried, Read More
March 25, 2017
On March 6, 2017, Steven Cooper, an 18-year U.S. Army Veteran, was awarded $2.5 million in a malpractice lawsuit filed against the Phoenix VA. Cooper is one of many veterans forced to wait over a year to secure an appointment at the Phoenix VA Health Center. The Army veteran claimed Read More
March 14, 2017
Myth 2: Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Deliver “Jackpot Justice” The assertion that the malpractice liability system serves up jackpot justice takes various forms, but the basic charge is that the system doles out compensation freely and that uninjured or less injured patients take home millions. However, recent stuides consistently prove that Read More
November 29, 2016
From a recent article in NJ.com: “In two courtrooms less than an hour’s drive apart, two doctors were sent to prison recently for putting greed ahead of the welfare of patients. One, Paresh Patel, an internal medicine doctor from Jamesburg, will spend a year in prison for allowing a lab Read More
October 25, 2016
The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for infants to be kept in their parents’ bedroom at night for six months to a year in order to lessen the risk of sleep-related death. The new recommendations say babies should sleep in the same room as their parents on a separate Read More
October 14, 2016
According to a recent article in the New York Times, research has shown that doctors spend less time with obese patients and fail to refer them for diagnostic tests. Patients report doctors blow them off and simply tell them to go to Weight Watchers, mistakenly assuming symptoms, such as Read More
August 26, 2016
A judge refused to seal the records of a $4.25 million medical malpractice settlement. Judge Terrence Nealon rejected a defense request to keep the settlement secret, finding that the public’s right to know outweighed concerns defense attorneys raised that release of the information would discourage hospitals and physicians from settling Read More
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