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…
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…
The issue of frivolous lawsuits reached the spotlight during the healthcare debate and is now front and center in new advertisements by the Chamber of Commerce.
How safe can a railroad crossing be when it looks like this? The image, taken in the course of a Transportation Safety Board of Canada investigation into a fatal crash involving a passenger train and a dump truck, illustrates that the truck drove into the path of the train largely because its driver could not…
James Richard Brown was walking out of a Farm Fresh in Suffolk, Virginia (VA) on December 21, just four days before Christmas, when his life took a dramatic turn for the worse. A car hit Mr. Brown resulting in a broken hip and a minor head injury. He was taken to the hospital and died…