A recent study on safety in hospitals conducted by Consumer Reports shows that hospitals are not a safe place to be. For this study Consumer Reports magazine ranked more than 2000 hospitals based on the following criteria: -Infections aquired in hospitals -likelyhood to be re-admitted in 30 days -communication issues…
Our partner Stephen Mackauf and John E. Hall Jr. from Hall Booth Smith, P.C. will co chair the 12th Annual Advanced Forum of the American Conference Institute on Obstetric Malpractice Claims on June 26th-27 2013 in Philadelphia. This two day forum is the nation’s foremost gathering of medical experts, insurance…
“Malpractice claims may capture nonlethal errors; however, they are most often associated with permanent disability or death. Only about 1% of adverse events due to medical negligence result in a claim.” write David E. Newman-Toker, MD and Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH in this article commenting on Singh H, Giardina…
From USA TODAY: In a stunning article Peter Eisler reports that “Thousands of patients a year leave the nation’s operating rooms with surgical items in their bodies. And despite occasional tales of forceps, clamps and other hardware showing up in post-operative X-rays, those items are almost never the problem. Most…
From The New York State Trial Lawyers Association: “New York’s healthcare industry has long pressed for enactment of so-called “tort reform” so they can be relieved of supposedly “excessive” medical liability payments. In fact, payments to medical malpractice victims have already declined substantially: • The number of medical malpractice claims…
From Reuters: “Missed or wrong diagnoses are common in primary care and may put some patients at risk of serious complications, according to a U.S. study.” The study appeared in JAMA Internal Medicine. David Newman-Toker from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who co-wrote a commentary on the study was…
Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf has been named 2013 Law Firm of the Year, Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs as well as being listed in six practice areas in the just released ranking of law firms by U.S. News Media Group, the publishers of U.S. News & World…
Jeffrey Bloom spoke on Breast Imaging Malpractice:An Attorney’s Perspective:for the Plaintiff, at this seminar sponsored by The International Institute for Continuing Medical Education, Inc. (IICME). The seminar was held at The New York Academy of Medicine New York, New York from October 15-17, 2012. The International Institute for Continuing Medical…
Medical Malpractice On May 23, 2012, a healthy 41 year old mother of three, Yolanda Medina, was admitted to Montefiore Medical Center for the sole purpose of donating a healthy kidney to her brother, Roberto Medina, who suffers from end-stage renal disease. The surgery went horribly wrong – – Yolanda…
From The Daily Beast; By Lizzie Crocker; “Groundbreaking new research has discovered four distinct types of breast cancer, possibly opening the door to better treatment. What you should know about the study one of its authors called ‘the breast-cancer equivalent of putting a man or woman on the moon.’ “…