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Chesapeake, VA Personal Injury Attorney Reports: Doctor Sued in West Virginia for Failure to Diagnose Cancer

My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has written a new post for our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys blog site site about a lawsuit in which a couple from West Virginia (WV) is seeking compensaion form and punitve damages against a doctor they claim failed to diagnose the wife’s skin cancer despite the presence and…

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Extreme Medical Malpractice May Be Considered Criminal

Prosecutors rested their case against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, on October 24, 2011. Murray has pled not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter for administering a fatal overdose of propofol, but prosecutors have argued that Murray demonstrated negligence so extreme he should be in prison.. According to Reuters, the final prosecution witness told…

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Chesapeake Personal Injury Lawyer Info: Parents Head for Laptop Before Hospital

Twelve percent of parents told researchers that had consulted health and medical information on the internet before taking their child to an emergency room., Reuters Health reported on October 20, 2011. The most commonly visited websites were WebMD and Wikipedia. The study groups consisted of 240 parents, a majority of whom said they were more likely…

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