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Archive for the ‘Medical Malpractice’ Category
April 18th, 2012
Have you ever wondered how well pharmacies are able to detect and protect against drug interactions between the various prescriptions you may be taking? Many pharmacies use computer software designed to search for possible drug interactions between the medications prescribed for you by your various doctors so that you can be alerted. How great is
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April 11th, 2012
Depakote (a pharmaceutical name for valproate semisodium) has been prescribed as a mood stabilizer since the late 1970s, particularly for sufferers of epilepsy. Today, the medication is mostly used to treat bipolar disorder (manic depression) and migraine headaches. It has proven to be incredibly effective in this capacity, but recent studies have shown a strong
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March 28th, 2012
The question is whether or not medical malpractice tort reform has enacted any positive change in the United States. The answer you get depends almost completely upon whom you ask. Advocates for tort reform legislation argue that doctors who fear lawsuits for medical negligence practice “defensive medicine,” ordering unnecessary tests and complicated procedures to cover
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March 21st, 2012
The politicians (on both sides of the aisle) who passionately proclaim that medical malpractice lawsuits and “jackpot justice” are serious, out-of-control problems in our civil justice system have been found to be exaggerating. The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued a press release with its most up-to-date statistics (as of 2009) regarding malpractice claims. Both
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March 14th, 2012
Kernicterus is a rare but serious disease that affects babies soon after they are born. It is especially tragic because it is so easily prevented. The first indication of the disease is the yellowing of a baby’s skin, called jaundice, which is caused by an excess of bilirubin in a baby’s system. If jaundice is treated,
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March 7th, 2012
Spina bifida is a very serious developmental disorder in which a child’s neural tube (the spinal cord and its surrounding tissue) does not close completely. For this reason, it is often known as an NTD, or neural tube disorder. Other disorders that fall under this classification are anencephaly and encephaloceles. The neural tube is the structure
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February 29th, 2012
As a follow up to our original blog series focused on the movie Hot Coffee, Feldman Shepherd personal injury attorney Royce W. Smith shared his insights about the movie and its larger message with WDAS-FM radio show host Patty Jackson. During the interview, Smith echoed the sentiments of Feldman Shepherd’s Personal Injury – The Myth
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February 21st, 2012
As we have written about before on this blog, rising medical costs are often attributed to increases in doctors’ malpractice insurance premiums due to so-called “frivolous” litigation. This is certainly what many in the media and in politics will have you believe because it squarely places the blame on one group of people (trial lawyers) and
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February 15th, 2012
Amaris Elliott-Engel wrote an article in The Legal Intelligencer (which will be excerpted here, although premium access is required to view the full text) about the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives’ recent push to enact a piece of tort reform legislation that would cap punitive damages in cases involving professional malpractice in nursing and assisted
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January 18th, 2012
Diane Sawyer and her ABC World News team recently produced a segment about medical malpractice and its costs (financial, emotional, and physical). Sawyer presents a startling figure that is enough to scare any American: one in three patients who enter a hospital will face a medical or surgical mistake during their stay. “Mistakes are happening
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