May 01, 2013
A clinician prescribes an antidepressant to a young woman without immediate follow-up.
April 15, 2013
In response to a federal initiative, a school clinician immunizes a child—but without parental consent.
March 19, 2013
A clinician finds herself culpable after agreeing to an unorthodox arrangement with a patient.
March 19, 2013
A Brooklyn woman with a missed lung cancer diagnosis was unable to file a malpractice suit under New York state's statute of limitations.
March 19, 2013
Medical identity theft and data security breaches are growing, with thousands of cases reported per year.
February 19, 2013
An elderly man opted for "no heroics" if things went wrong in surgery, but his family felt differently.
January 29, 2013
Hogan alleges he underwent several unnecessary endoscopic procedures that destabilized his injured back and significantly damaged his earnings potential as a professional wrestler.
January 29, 2013
What do you do when patient charts have been changed after the fact and medication doses altered?
January 29, 2013
During an average career spanning 40 years, clinicians will spend more than 10% of the time with an unresolved malpractice claim.
January 28, 2013
U.S. surgeons make mistakes, such as leaving a foreign object inside a patient's body or performing operations on the wrong part of the body, frequently.
December 18, 2012
An eager, young clinician makes a serious mistake that causes a heart attack.
November 19, 2012
Who is at fault when an unattended patient is found cyanotic and unresponsive?
October 16, 2012
A woman in her early 60s presented with chest pain and was miscategorized in the emergency department.
August 20, 2012
Miscommunication among hospital staff was cited as the top reason why respondents believe most medical mistakes occur.
August 20, 2012
The program allows clinicians to acknowledge making a mistake without it being used as an admission of liability.
August 20, 2012
According to the decision, the cap "infringes on the jury's constitutionally protected purpose of determining the amount of damages sustained by an injured party."
August 20, 2012
A lack of communication between a surgeon and an anesthetist has disastrous consequences.
July 16, 2012
The new law incentivizes defendants in medical malpractice cases to make settlement offers early in the litigation process to cut back on the time, expenses and uncertainty associated with malpractice lawsuits.
July 16, 2012
Was a clinician negligent in the administration of a standard drug used for treating pancreatitis?
June 19, 2012
A steadfast clinician gets into trouble when she examines a minor without express verbal consent.
June 19, 2012
Including a patient photograph on a verification screen in electronic health records could help prevent clinicians from placing incorrect orders.
June 18, 2012
A Bronx jury awarded close to $120 million to a woman who suffered brain damage after being treated at three New York area hospitals.
June 18, 2012
Medical malpractice lawsuits can take anywhere between 20 months to 44 months to be resolved, study findings suggest.
May 22, 2012
Accusations of racial discrimination are raised against an unsuspecting supervisor.
A former airman who lost his legs due to a botched gallbladder surgery is challenging the Feres Doctrine and suing the U.S. government, the Air Force and the David Grant Medical Center for medical malpractice.
New York state spent the most in malpractice payouts in 2011.
Clinicians' ability to provide patient care may be impaired immediately after surgical catastrophes, but few report receiving time off.
Malpractice laims in which an indemnity payment was made were associated with higher mean defense costs -- $45,070 vs. $17,130 -- an analysis reveals.
April 17, 2012
A patient undergoing myocardial perfusion imaging claims the IV led to nerve damage.
March 20, 2012
A serious accident during a patient's discharge leads to potentially life-threatening injuries and a lawsuit.
February 21, 2012
When a patient does not comply with medical recommendations, how do you protect yourself?
January 16, 2012
A nurse's careless mishandling of medical evidence jeopardizes a criminal rape case and causes undue emotional harm.
Many more medical errors are reported when the process is anonymous and the health-care environment is nonpunitive, study results indicate.
Medical errors, including pressure ulcers and leaving surgical instruments in patients, increased in Indiana hospitals despite statewide programs intended to reduce mistakes.
Judge-directed negotiation programs consist of a judge with malpractice expertise helping facilitate negotiations between both parties, without imposing settlement amounts. If the parties are not happy with the process, they can opt to have the case go through the court system in the normal manner.
December 19, 2011
Post-surgical complications from a routine procedure and lack of follow-up land a clinician in court.
November 15, 2011
A young clinician working in a depressed urban area gives medical advice over the phone to a mother concerned about her child's abdominal pain, and then must pay the consequences.
An employee at the medical malpractice firm representing cardiologist, Mark Midei, MD, who has been accused of performing unnecessary stent procedures, misplaced a hard drive containing patient medical records. Should law firms be subject to HIPAA regulations?
A doctor with Lambert Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome was mistakenly administered insulin by a nurse who neglected to read a note in his medical history specifying the patient could not receive the drug.
Exorbitant pain and suffering awards have been blamed for high clinician insurance premiums and increases in overall health insurance costs, but a new report shows that capping payments did not solve these problems.
October 17, 2011
Can a clinician be sued for battery if a patient objects to a medical treatment, even after giving consent?
September 19, 2011
An eager, young clinician learns the hard way that discretion is the first rule of law in medicine.
If a patient has a nonfunctional arteriovenous (AV) shunt in one arm and a functional shunt used for dialysis in the other, does the avoidance of an IV access in the arm with the nonfunctional shunt still apply?
Many patients seek clinician approval before undertaking various fasting and detoxification regimens.
May 16, 2011
Navigating social media is especially tough for young professionals. Did a nursing student cross the line?
April 12, 2011
Tragedy strikes when a clinician signs an athlete's release form without waiting for test results.
April 12, 2011
Two clinicians failed to refer a longstanding patient, even though they knew of a history of familial risk.
March 14, 2011
A middle-aged man suffers a devastating stroke when his clinicians fail to pick up on his symptoms.
March 14, 2011
Undetected vascular disease reaches its apex while a man is vacationing. Is the on-call clinician to blame?
Emergency department (ED) doctors spend less time directly caring for patients, and more time on indirect care; and frequent interruptions while working are a contributing factor to medical errors.
