The wife of a retired U.S. Navy petty officer died after an active-duty U.S. Navy anesthesiologist at a Virginia military hospital failed to properly re-insert a breathing tube when the wife suffered obstructed breathing due to an obstruction in her airway, according to Virginia Lawyers Weekly. A lawsuit was filed against the U.S. government through the…
An Ohio (OH) family has filed suit against two hospitals and a managed care system, alleging that doctors in charge of treating their son for the flesh-eating streptococcus bacteria infection necrotizing fasciitis did not do enough to prevent the amputation of the boy’s legs. According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch, the Haxton family…
A young man went in for hip surgery at a Virginia (VA) hospital and came out forever changed due to an egregious medical error. The young man explicitly requested not to be given narcotic pain medication, but a nurse failed to adhere to this simple request and administered fentanyl (based on an order from a physician), according to…
Nursing homes have a high duty to meet the safety and health needs of their residents. This principle was recently upheld in separate cases in New York (NY) and Missouri (MO). In the New York case, a family won a $19 million jury verdict against the company that operated the Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home in…
A Massachusetts family has received a $15 million jury award because the anesthesiologist and a heart surgeon who participated in a botched surgery that led to the family son’s death deliberately falsified medical and surgical records to cover up mistakes. To a very small extent, a few medical and surgical errors are inevitable simply because…