Jacky is a staff writer for Medstak and a proponent of patient rights. She hopes her writing will raise awareness so that patients can become better self-advocates.
A family from Calgary, Canada has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit that demands $12 million in compensatory damages for their young daughter’s medical complications. The birth injury complaint claims that doctors were negligent during the labor and delivery of the now two-year-old toddler. The plaintiffs... Read More
For quite some time now, consumer advocates have argued that the current California medical malpractice law is unfair to families because it severely limits the amount of non-economic damages that may be awarded by a jury. The outdated medical malpractice cap has hampered verdicts and... Read More
The recent release of a report by Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn entitled “Death, Delay, and Dismay at the VA” has added fuel to the fire over growing criticism of rampant administrative problems at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The report offers damning evidence... Read More
In what has been called the largest jury verdict concerning a case of nursing home neglect in Massachusetts during the last decade, the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit have been ordered to pay $14 million to the family of Genevieve Calandro. Calandro was a... Read More
In a disturbing case of patient privacy violations, Johns Hopkins Hospital recently announced that it would pay a $190 million medical malpractice settlement to victims of Dr. Nikita A. Levy. Formerly a gynecologist and obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Community Medicine, Dr. Levy was found to... Read More
A surgical mistake lawsuit filed by a widower recently reached trial before Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Frances McGee. Dennis K. Snowden, the plaintiff, alleges that doctors left a laparotomy sponge inside his late wife’s body during a surgery in February of 2009. The... Read More
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) called into question the common practice of administering blood transfusions to patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Trauma doctors have long thought that blood transfusions would be beneficial. Patients with a... Read More
Calling morcellation an “avoidable disaster,” a petition on the popular grassroots advocacy website, Change.org, seeks to raise awareness about the link between cancer and power morcellators, which is at the heart of a growing number of cancer lawsuits. Morcellation is a technique used in certain... Read More
