April 12, 2017 Proposed Medical Malpractice Reforms May Hurt Patients Congress appears poised to consider medical malpractice reforms that put dollars over patient safety. H.R. 1215, or the “Protecting Access to Care Act of 2017” is designed to cap non-economic recoveries at $250,000. To many of us, this seems like a lot of money. But imagine these situations: You go into surgery and become paralyzed; … Read More »
March 10, 2017 Poor Bedside Manner can be Dangerous to your Health Data shows that the chance of suffering from post-surgical complications goes up when a surgeon who receives a greater amount of patient complaints performs the surgery. In other words, surgeons with poor bedside manners are not only unpleasant but can actually be dangerous to a patient’s health and surgical aftercare. The study, conducted by the … Read More »
January 31, 2017 When Surgeons Operate on the Wrong Site When a person goes into the hospital for a surgical procedure, the last question to cross their mind may be: “what happens if the doctor does the wrong surgery?” But, as it turns out, sometimes doctors perform the wrong procedure altogether, and at other times they may do a surgery on the wrong site of … Read More »
January 24, 2017 Philadelphia Nursing Home Negligence Lawyers Discuss Potential Changes to Regulations Pennsylvania lawmakers could be making some changes to nursing home regulations. A task force within the Department of Health conducted a recent review of these regulations and found that patients might be better served by oversight that prioritizes quality of life, rather than quality of a facility. The department made some specific policy recommendations and … Read More »
January 19, 2017 Philadelphia Products Liability Lawyers: A Heart Device That Causes Infections and Death At least fifteen people have died and hundreds of others have suffered severe, life-threatening infections due to the side effect of a heart device. This device, known as a heater-cooler, is used to regulate a patient’s body temperature during surgical procedures. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received 339 reports on heater-cooler devices from different … Read More »
January 19, 2017 Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawyers: Zero Tolerance on Central Line Infections There is a particular kind of hospital-based infection that not only kills people, but also is overwhelmingly expensive to treat. It affects 27,000 annually and costs nearly $50,000 per patient. This is a central line infection, an infection that enters a person’s system through intravenous tubes that provide them nutrients, fluids and medicines. The Journal … Read More »
January 5, 2017 The Danger of Sleep Deprivation for Doctors Doctors have highly important and stressful jobs. However, many suffer from sleep deprivation due to long shifts and rigorous work schedules. Sleep deprivation can cause an array of mental and physical problems, putting doctors and their patients at risk. One example of just how seriously sleep deprivation affects our abilities to function is illuminated in … Read More »
December 31, 2016 Children’s Blood Pressure On The Rise Along With Obesity In recent years, children have become progressively more at risk for high blood pressure, which can lead to an array of other serious medical conditions. Recent studies have been conducted on a national level, and many of them show that the amount of children and adolescents who have high blood pressure continues to escalate, compromising … Read More »
December 31, 2016 Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawyers: Opioid Epidemic Prompts Establishment of Prescription Drug Database Just a few months ago Pennsylvania initiated a prescription drug-monitoring database due to the overwhelming amount of drug overdoses and deaths that have been occurring. Just last year alone, there were more than 3,300 overdoses, many of them fatal. This is the highest number of overdoses that Pennsylvania has ever had. There are multiple concerns … Read More »
