If you drive southeast of Rome for about three and a half hours, you will arrive in Augusta. While Georgia’s second-largest city is perhaps most famous as the host of the prestigious annual Masters golf tournament, it made headlines recently when a medical malpractice...
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Why won’t Georgia hospitals adopt sponge detection technology?
On Behalf of The Finnell Firm | Oct 28, 2019 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Detection technology could protect patents from retained sponges but hospitals won’t buy it. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently stated that during a 10-year period, there were 26.8 million surgeries performed in the United States. While surgery...
What is aspiration?
On Behalf of The Finnell Firm | Oct 11, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
Many Georgia residents being treated in hospitals, particularly in intensive care, are at risk for a medical condition called aspiration. Aspiration can affect any seriously ill patient, but those who are being fed through a tube are particularly prone to it. In...
Proposal may lift longstanding bar to med mal suits
| Sep 27, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
For well over 50 years, the law of the land has been that military members who get treatment at the hands of military doctors or at military hospitals cannot turn around and sue their caregivers for medical malpractice. However, a bipartisan measure aims to change...
What is the NPBD and how can it help my case?
| Sep 18, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
The National Practitioner Data Bank is a database maintained by the federal government which records important information about doctors and other medical professionals. Specifically, the database serves as a kind of "rap sheet" for doctors, recording any disciplinary...
Frequency of med mal claims declining, getting more costly
| Jul 12, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
According to statistics, the number of medical malpractice claims which get paid has been steadily on the decline since they peaked in 2001. For example, in 2017, and among all medical professionals, there were just over 10,000 paid claims. In 1991, the number was...
Potentially lethal medical mistakes are too common
On Behalf of The Finnell Firm | Apr 18, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
According to a recent report, medical malpractice is the third leading cause of death in the United States. The report suggests that residents of Georgia who go to doctors and other medical professionals to get healthier may actually be putting their health at risk. A...
Doctors must be on the lookout for sepsis
| Mar 7, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
The condition of sepsis, and its more severe cousin, septic shock, is scary for a number of reasons. For one, it is a potentially fatal response by the body to a stubborn infection. If left untreated, it can cause irreparable damage to a person's organs. The other...
Birth injuries can affect new mothers too
| Feb 22, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
Many people throughout Northern Georgia, even if they have not experienced one personally, have probably heard of some nightmare childbirth scenarios in which the newborn gets seriously injured during labor and delivery. While they are thankfully not a common...
Surgeon accidentally removes kidney in back surgery
On Behalf of The Finnell Firm | Nov 15, 2018 | Medical Malpractice
Although the incident happened in a neighboring state, a surgery gone wrong has attracted the attention of at least one Georgia media outlet located in Atlanta. The story serves as an important reminder to doctors and patients alike that there simply is no such thing...
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