Gerry Oginski is a medical malpractice lawyer who has been where you are and who has helped victims all over New York seek justice and obtain compensation for injuries related to misdiagnosis, failure to diagnose, surgical errors, birth injuries, and much more. Read more to learn about your medical malpractice rights and how to protect them.
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What Medicine Should You be Taking This Flu Season, If Any?Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice; Looked at the effectiveness of phenylephrine hydrochloride, widely used in over-the-counter treatments
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What are the True Costs of Diagnostic Errors?Experts estimate that every person will face at least 1 diagnostic error in their life time. What is the true cost of this? In some cases it is a person’s life.
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How common is Diabetes among Americans?Some experts find that one of the main problems with diabetes and diabetics is that sometimes physicians miss it and diabetics are not getting treated. Diabetes
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Yo-yo Dieting Most Likely Not a Cancer RiskYo-yo dieting is a popular term and is technically known as weight cycling. A number of studies have linked it to cancer. However, according to investigators
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Hospitals Slow to Adopt Patient Apology PoliciesPatients and their loved ones are more likely to pursue a lawsuit if they believe there was a lack of accountability, disrespect or poor communication
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Recorded Surgeries Could be the Future of Medical Malpractice CasesResearchers at the University of Toronto have developed a surgical “black box” that would track a surgeon’s actions during surgery and record any errors.
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Newborn Names Could Reduce Medical ErrorsA new study showed that using a generic naming convention increases the risk of wrong patient errors, such as placing orders on the wrong patient.
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Electronic Medical Records, or EMR, were supposed to make life easier for doctors and patients. New study reveals errors that could amplify because they are repeatedA 2012 study examined more than 300 reports of problems involving faulty records at Pennsylvania hospitals and found that errors in electronic medical records
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Program Helps Caregivers Under Stress After ErrorsSecond-victim phenomenon. The first victims of a medical error are patients and their families. However, the second set of victims, the health-care professional
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How to Stop Preventable Medical ErrorsJAMA Surgery recently published a study this week looking at surgical never events, including wrong-site surgery, retained surgical items and surgical fires