A 54-year-old individual living in Weems, Virginia (VA) was suffering from intense stomach pain and decided to get treatment at the Rappahannock General Hospital on a Saturday. Tests indicated they had a large bowel obstruction. Unfortunately, they didn’t receive the operation they desperately needed until Tuesday. By that time, the patient suffered a “perforated cecum.”…
There has been a $450,000.00 settlement of a wrongful death claim arising from the Portsmouth Naval Hospital due to a doctor’s failure to reinsert a breathing tube, according to published reports. A 43-year-old wife of a retired U.S. Navy petty officer had a boil on her thigh which became infected and was referred to Portsmouth…
I noticed over the weekend that an Oklahoma (OK) man has filed a lawsuit against the surgeon who mistakenly operated on and severely damaged his healthy knee. Earlier this year, William Paul Boykin went to Bailey Medical Center to have arthroscopic surgery to repair damage in one knee. According to court filings summarized in a…
An assisted living center in Warren County has been closed by the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation. According to the report the Floyd McKissick Senior Assisted Living Center in Norlina received zero stars under the state’s adult care licensure rating system. This is the lowest rating possible. An inspection made at the facility…
A great result in a medical negligence case was recently achieved in the Spotsylvania Circuit Court of Virginia in a wrongful death case about a doctor’s error in treatment. According to an article that appeared in Virginia Lawyers Weekly, a jury awarded $7.5 million to the husband of a registered nurse who died from breast cancer. Eleanor Browder had noticed a lump in her breast
and had gone to see her family practitioner from Lee’s Hill Medical Associates in May 2003.