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$2.25 Million Verdict Against Fairfax Surgeon

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:26:34 +0000

According to published reports, a Fairfax Circuit Court jury has awarded the estate of a former employee of Inova Fair Oaks Hospital nearly $2.25 million dollars following and operation to repair a failed Nissen fundoplication.

The verdict, awarded against Barry Walter, M.D. and Virginia Surgery Associates, was later reduced to $1.85 million to comply with Virginia’s “doctor and insurance company protection” law.

Read full story via Virginia Malpractice News.

Many Doctors Don’t Always Report Errors, Incompetent Colleagues

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:26:29 +0000

A survey in the December 4 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that while most doctors believe in the tenets of medical professionalism, there’s a gap between these standards and doctors’ actions. According to the survey, almost half of all doctors say they have witnessed medical mistakes but have not reported them.

Read full story via Burness Communications

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Virginia Doctor Gets Year in Prison for Prescription Scam

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:13:16 +0000

A Virginia doctor who wrote tens of thousands of prescriptions for muscle relaxants and other drugs over the Internet without meeting or examining the patients has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

Dr. Torrino Jennings of Mechanicsville, Va., was also sentenced in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to three years of probation following his release.

Read full story via NewsChannel 8.

Parents of girl who died during breast surgery call for change

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:53:49 +0000

The parents of an 18-year-old suburban Boca Raton cheerleader who died last year during breast-augmentation surgery called Wednesday for a ban on the use of general anesthesia at outpatient surgical centers.

Such centers are not equipped to deal with emergencies such as the one that killed their daughter, Stephanie, both Joanne and Thomas Kuleba said during a news conference.

Read full story via MiamiHerald.com.

Ad aired to fight caps on medical malpractice

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:01:49 +0000

Personal injury lawyers still cringe when they recall 2004’s eye-catching television ads of doctors walking out of town along the highway, fleeing from high malpractice insurance costs.

A congressional study and a national consumer advocacy group found at the time that the health care industry had spent millions of dollars exaggerating the malpractice crisis in Nevada and elsewhere in the country. Doctors overall weren’t actually leaving Nevada at a high rate.

But the hard-hitting television campaign of five years ago, produced by influential Republican strategist Sig Rogich, helped persuade voters to overwhelmingly approve an industry-backed ballot initiative imposing a $350,000 cap on malpractice damages for pain and suffering.

via Attorneys hope to lift malpractice damages cap – Las Vegas Sun.

Significant Medical Malpractice Risks Associated With Gastric Bypass Surgery

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:01:02 +0000

The summer sun is almost upon the North Carolina and Virginia coast and so is bathing suit season. Many of those battling with obesity and trying to get slimmer have also opted for gastric bypass surgery, also known as stomach stapling, when they have exhausted all other options. Gastric bypass is a procedure where the stomach size may be reduced by over 90%.

Success with gastric bypass surgery results in the loss of weight and requires following a healthy diet regime. However, for some, gastric bypass surgery results in major medical problems or even death. The problem has been so widespread that these problems have been commonly referred to by many nurses as a “gastric bypass gone bad” and have resulted in numerous medical malpractice lawsuits.

When the desire to lose the excess weight is so passionate that a major surgery is chosen the desired result is to live the new life with a new healthy body. When something goes wrong that result is not only lost physically bad, but emotionally bad.

via InjuryBoard Virginia Beach.

Compromise Medical Malpractice Bill Passes Senate

admin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:49:11 +0000

A bill that would make it harder to win a medical malpractice lawsuit against an emergency room physician garnered widespread support as it passed in the Utah Senate this morning. Bill co-sponsor Senator John Valentine said the stakeholders interested in the bill came to the table and hashed out some compromises last week, then created an amended, substitute bill.

“This is a consensus bill. Senator Bell, myself, Senator Knudson, members of the trial lawyers, members of the medical community all sat in a room last Friday, and for nearly two hours, hammered out the respective positions that you see in the substitute,” he said.

Read full story via KCPW.