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6 Year Old Boy Dies at Dentist Leads to $5M LawsuitA $5 million wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a dental clinic that is accused of improperly applying anesthesia to a 6-year-old boy one year ago.
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Children's Motrin Causes Severe Burn Reaction-Lawsuit Alleges; Jury Is OutA suit against Johnson & Johnson over warnings on Children's Motrin and Children's Tylenol is now awaiting the deliberation of a Philadelphia jury.
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Jury Misconduct in Nassau County Results in Arrest in Medical Malpractice CaseA juror has been charged with juror misconduct in a Long Beach medical malpractice case this week. Deonarine Persaud, 53, solicited a bribe from the plaintiff
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Bullying a Cause of Medical Errors; Report on NY Times Op-Ed PieceAn important, yet often overlooked cause of medical errors is workplace bullying, a phenomenon that is tackled in a NY Times weekend op-ed by practicing nurse
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292 Foreign Objects Left Inside of Patients 2008-2009 in New YorkYou might be wondering how it’s possible for a doctor to leave a surgical instrument inside your body and not realize it.
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Hospital bigwigs earn big bucks while your health insurance premiums skyrocketDo you think there's any correlation between your ever-increasing health insurance premiums and the fact that hospital administrators are earning millions of do
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Surgical Instruments (plural) Left Inside Patient During SurgeryThese were not small instruments. These surgical instruments were no supposed to be left inside the patient. Yet for some unknown reason, SIX surgical forceps (clamps) were left INSIDE this hapless patient. A Phillipino man had been a gunshot victim during a robbery in the Phillipines and underwent corrective surgery. He survived and was left with an open wound that was being monitored. Two days later, he was dead.
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Man suffers blindness because of improperly performed surgery-Can't take caseA man had surgery to fix a detached retina and is now totally blind. He comes to me asking whether he has a valid case. After talking with him and his wife for an hour I came to the conclusion that there was no possible way I could take on his case. Although he clearly believed that something was done wrong during the course of one or more surgeries I still came to the inescapable conclusion that there was no way to help them. Why not?
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Cataract Surgery Nightmare; Woman Loses Vision in One Eye; $725,000 SettlementCataract surgery is supposed to make you see better. Unfortunately, when doctor recommends having surgery you don’t need, the outcome can be life-altering.
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Snowblower injury-Man loses four fingers in New YorkWe had a foot and a half of snow today in New York. Today was the day I was going to try out my brand-new snowblower. For years I had resisted getting a snowblower, believing that shoveling was good for me. Last year we had especially large snowfall and I decided to take the plunge and buy a 22 inch gas powered dual-stage snowblower made by Sears. Before today, I made sure to read the owner's manual twice. I filled the snowblower with gas and tried it out, just to make sure I knew how it operated and how to work the controls. When I awoke this morning I felt like a kid in a candy store. I couldn't wait to go out and play with my new toy. I pulled the snowblower out of the garage and it started right up without a problem. It was actually a lot of fun. I had been using it for about an hour when I decided to clear a path toward the door. We have a thick doormat and apparently I got underneath the doormat and the next thing I knew, I heard an immediate grinding and I shut off the power and propulsion. I turned the machine off and removed emergency key.