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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When It Comes To CT Scans of Lungs, Doctors Should Take A Deep BreathCT scans are known to be effective at finding pulmonary embolisms - sudden blockages in the arteries of the lungs. But according to The New York Times
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Big Pharma May Be Inducing For-Profit Dialysis Centers to Prescribe Riskier DrugsFor-profit kidney dialysis centers use more dangerous and expensive drugs than their non-profit counterparts, according to a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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New York’s Highest Court Passes on Opportunity to Allow Medical Malpractice Victims to Sue for Their “Loss of Chance” of RecoveryThe case that brought this question before the court involved medical personnel who improperly inserted a breathing tube and perforated an elderly woman's esophagus.
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Doctor Asserts that Near Misses of Medical Malpractice Should Be Teachable MomentsDr. Danielle Ofri, now a professor at New York University School of Medicine, describes her error as a “near miss.” An elderly patient with dementia was sent to
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Failure to give blood thinner following urology surgery results in massive saddle pulmonary embolus and sudden death.He had been on blood thinners prior to surgery. His doctor told him to stay on his coumadin and while in the hospital they would stop it right before surgery.
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Why Some New York Doctors Get Away with Medical Malpractice & Don't Have to Pay a Dime in CompensationIf a doctor screws up and causes you harm, do you think he's going to come right out and tell you he screwed up? Do you think he's going to tell you "Mrs. Jones, I just want you to know
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Why do Upstate Doctors Pay Less for Medical Malpractice Insurance Than Do Downstate Doctors?A new study by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield has released a report that pegs liability insurance costs for doctors in the New York City area are 3.5 times
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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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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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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