Medical Malpractice

• Emergency Room Overcrowding Not Caused by Uninsured

  Dan Frith | April 19, 2008 3:40 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I hope you have not recently found the need to visit your local emergency room One of my family members was not so lucky she had fairly significant symptoms and waited for over 6 hours before...

• New Information on Premature Babies

  Dan Frith | April 18, 2008 6:40 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  A new study from the University of Texas Medical School shines some light on the issue of premature babies (preemies). A normal term is 40 weeks from the mother's last menstruation. The study...

• What if you don't want to file a lawsuit?

  Lauren Ellerman | April 17, 2008 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  For moral, financial, or personal reasons, we often have families who have been victims of medical negligence, or abuse, who do not want to file a lawsuit. So they ask us - "what are my other...

• Medical Errors Cost Billions...And Lives!

  Dan Frith | April 15, 2008 6:14 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  From 2004 through 2006, HealthGrades, a health care ratings organization, found that patient safety errors resulted in 238,337 potentially preventable deaths of U.S. Medicare patients and cost the...

• No Lawyers, Please

  Dan Frith | April 06, 2008 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  This is the title of an editorial published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Saturday, April 5. The editorial references a poll conducted by Presidential candidate, Barack Obama's pollster on...

• Big Business Is Pushing Weight Loss Surgery

  Dan Frith | April 04, 2008 5:09 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  The Wall Street Journal recently published an article (3-31-08) which caught my eye. The article was entitled "Industry Giants Push Weight Surgery" and starts out as follows: Medical-device...

• Malignant Hyperthermia Kills Florida Teen During Surgery

  Dan Frith | March 28, 2008 6:06 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  You have already probably heard the sad story about the Florida teenager who died due to complications from anesthesia during corrective breast augmentation surgery. Stephanie Kuleba, age 18, was having outpatient corrective breast augmentation surgery last week in the offices of Dr. Steven Schuster in Boca Raton when she developed the symptoms of malignant hyperthermia after receiving...

• What are High Risk Medications?

  Dan Frith | March 24, 2008 10:57 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  By now most Americans have read something about the medication errors which almost cost actor Dennis Quaid and his wife the ultimate loss....the death of their twins due to a medication error (heparin overdose) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.Medication errors happen daily - it is part of the "grab and go" culture in busy hospitals. What can be done to reduce this...

• Dennis Quaid and Medical Malpractice

  Dan Frith | March 18, 2008 2:10 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  Okay...you may ask, "what is the connection between actor Dennis Quaid and medical malpractice?" Good Question and here is the answer...Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, were blessed last year with the birth of twins, Thomas and Zoe. However, within a few days of coming home, the twins showed signs of a having a staph infection and doctors recommended they be admitted to Cedars-Sinai hospital for...

• John Ritter's Estate Loses Medcial Malpractice Case

  Dan Frith | March 17, 2008 9:38 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA

  I previously blogged (February 4 and 19) on comic actor John Ritter's wrongful death malpractice lawsuit going to trial. The suit, filed by Ritter's widow, sought $67 million in damages from two of her deceased husband's treating doctors. In summary, Ritter experienced severe nausea and vomiting and went to went to St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank, California. Ritter's cardiologist, and...