My partner, Jim Lewis, has handled numerous personal injury cases involving gall bladder surgery medical malpractice. As experienced personal injury attorneys, we at Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp& Duffan have assisted our clients in prosecuting claims against doctors who commit medical malpractice as a direct result of their negligence during gall bladder surgery. Click here to…
In 1999, Jeanne Cartwright brought her daughter to Cabell Huntington Hospital in West Virginia, complaining that her four-year-old daughter suffered from weakness in her lower body and incontinence. Pediatrician neurological consultant Dr. Carl McComas suspected diagnosed the girl with Gullain-Barre Syndrome and did not order an MRI. A full month later, the disorder was ruled…
This month, the North Carolina Medical Board will begin to publicly report some medical malpractice information on their site from cases taking place throughout the state. This new public reporting system was recently approved by the state Rules Review Commission, which oversees the North Carolina Administrative Code, despite some protest by doctors and doctors’ associations…
When many people think about medical malpractice, they think of surgical errors — the national stories that involve a doctor amputated the wrong foot of a patient or a physician leaving a medical instrument behind in a patient’s chest cavity. However, some of the most common medical malpractice cases don’t focus on what a doctor…
Jim Lewis, posted a blog on tPA or Plat, a stroke medicine that could prevent brain damage from occuring if diagnosed and treated in time. This blog is about how a new study suggests that there could actually be more time for you to be diagnosed and still recieve the medication before its too late.