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Back in 2001, medical professionals first coined the term “never event.” At the time, it generally referred to drastic and even shocking events that no one felt should happen under any circumstances. A great example is a surgeon amputating the wrong arm. It’s a...
There are some situations in life in which there are no winners. One example of this truism: a medical malpractice lawsuit. The doctors and hospitals that are ordered to pay victims harmed by their negligence certainly aren’t winners, and the victims themselves have...
It can happen to anyone, it seems. The picture you just hung on the wall hours or days before falls on the floor without warning. Using an old hammer, you realize you had better fasten the head to the handle a little tighter or somebody might get hurt. Still, when one...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...