In efforts to improve the quality of healthcare and reduce the percentage of physician error, many privately run medical boards are enforcing new Maintenance of Certification programs. While doctors have historically been required to pass challenging exams approximately every 10 years to remain certified, many... Read More

For elderly patients in need of round-the-clock care, many families turn to the comfort and peace of mind offered by nursing homes. However, as one devastated Oklahoma family recently discovered, its peace of mind quickly turned to horror and panic as evidence of long-term elder... Read More

A recent lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (Orlando) alleges that birth injury malpractice led to the untimely death of the plaintiff’s newborn child. According to allegations leveled in the complaint, the defendant health care providers failed to perform a... Read More

A Florida neurologist practicing medicine for 57 years will be forced to go to trial again in a neurosurgery malpractice lawsuit after the Florida Supreme Court ruled he could not pass the blame to another physician for his own negligence. Florida’s highest court reversed a... 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

Two recent studies published in the July 14 on-line version of the journal Pediatrics highlight common child medication errors and present some solutions. The studies focused on two distinct areas: practices that reduce error in doctors’ offices and hospitals; and the reasons for medication errors... 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

The Da Vinci robotic arm, once touted as technology’s one-up over laparoscopic surgery, has come under recent fire for carrying an uncomfortable failure rate – causing many patients to question whether the minimally-invasive nature of the procedure is worth the added risk of a problem.... Read More