Medical Malpractice, Doctor Mistakes, & Surgical Errors in VA Archives - Page 49 of 80 - Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp

Arkansas Wrong Side Brain Surgery has Virginia Connection, $20 million Jury Verdict

Brain surgeons were operating on a teenager named Cody at an Arkansas hospital, when, during the procedure, the surgeons realized they were operating on the wrong side of Cody’s brain. Talk about blatant medical negligence! According to Cody’s attorneys, the surgeons halted the wrong-sided brain surgery and continued with the surgery on the proper side of the brain. If that wasn’t bad…

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Plastic Surgeon, Anesthesia Nurse Must Pay $20M for Patient’s Death

In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia and North Carolina Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys blog, my colleague Jim Lewis writes about two incidents in which plastic surgery complications led to the deaths of young women. The surgeons and nurses of the surgical teams were found negligent in trials for not ensuring the patients received…

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