You spend your morning scanning the news. Maybe you read the newspaper. Maybe you watch the morning news. Maybe you listen to the news in your car on the way to work. Or, if you are like many of us, you read your news online. No matter which way you get your news content, this section provides relevant information about current events that are happening relating to accident cases, wrongful death cases and medical malpractice cases in New York and throughout the country.
Many times you will see studies reported here that are currently trending in the news. On occasion I will add commentary to my news report to highlight a particular point and show what happens here in New York.
You will always find a link to the original news story contained within my news report. I find it critically important to allow you, the reader, the ability to determine for yourself the source of the story.
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64-year-old man suffered a hole in his left ureter after surgery for recurrent diverticulitis.More than five years ago, 64-year-old Dennis E. Jenny underwent surgery. He hoped that by undergoing surgery, he would no longer have to experience attacks of recurrent diverticulitis.
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Kidney Transplant Death; News Reports Indicate Family Gets up to $10MThe family of a woman who died while giving up her kidney has been handed a settlement somewhere between $7 and $10 million.
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Kidney Transplant Ends in Death at Montefiore HospitalMontefiore Hospital in the Bronx has suspended its organ transplant program after the medical center suffered its first fatality in history within the last two weeks.
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$7M for Death After Neglected Gallbladder SurgeryGallbladder patient who died is to be compensated over $7 million due to medical negligence. Nam Yoon Lee was admitted on June 18, 2008 to New York Hospital Queens in Flushing with biliary colic (a pain associated with gallstones) and an inflamed gallbladder. He was to have his gallbladder removed the following morning.
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NYC Patient Catches Fire During TracheotomyA South Bronx doctor is now in the hot seat, so to speak, for setting a patient on fire and allegedly trying to cover it up several weeks ago.
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Sometimes Antibiotics Better than Surgery for Appendicitis; New StudyA new study suggests antibiotics are a better solution than surgery for many people with appendicitis.
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Colonoscopy Hidden DangersColonoscopies -- normally considered safe procedures -- have come under fire thanks to a new analysis presented this Tuesday at the American College of Gastro
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Penis Amputation: Jury Says Not MalpracticeA doctor has won a medical malpractice case in a Kentucky court this week, in regard to a 2007 circumcision which turned into a partial penis amputation.
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Videotape Your Surgery; in MassachusetsHospital groups in Massachusetts are up in arms over a proposed bill that would hand patients the right to video record their operations.
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Repeat Colonoscopies: Expensive, Unnecessary, and HarmfulColonoscopies are examinations that search for polyps, or growths, which eventually become colon cancer. The medical community believes these examinations are