In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard, my colleague John C. takes notes of an announcement by the Eastern Virginia Medical School recently expanded its enrollment in advanced training programs for physician assistants and surgical assistants. John explains that PAs’ and surgical assistants’ responsibilities are growing along with their numbers, which means these…
A girl born at the naval hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia (VA), faces a lifetime of mental and physical disabilities stemming from cerebral palsy and other developmental problems. That much is indisputable. Other facts and conclusions from a birth injury lawsuit filed by the child’s parents against the federal government and the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center…
On August 20, 2009, the Virginia Board of Medicine issued an order permanently revoking a physician’s medical license. This revocation was in regards to the physician’s treatment of a 75-year-old patient with a history of radiation therapy for prostate cancer. The physician was a urologist at the Southwest Virginia Medical Center in Richlands, Virginia (VA), who treated the patient between October 2004 and…
Every day, headlines throughout the U.S. paint a grim picture of seniors who have been abused, neglected, and exploited, often by people they trust the most, the staff at the nursing home or assisted living facility they stay at. Just this week elderly women in New Brunswick wandered away from the facility, fell, and died. …
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