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- CDC confirms Utah nurse as serial hepatitis C infector
Jan 7, 2016
The CDC has now confirmed that the hepatitis C outbreak at McKay-Dee Hospital and Davis Medical Center & Hospital in Utah was caused by Elet Neilson, a healthcare professional who worked for Davis from June 2011 to April 2014 and at McKay-Dee from June 2014 to November 2014. The CDC says at least 7200 people have risked exposure. This case is similar to that of "serial infector" David Kwiatkowski who traveled around the country to...Read More - Another “serial infector,” Elet Neilson, follows steps of David Kwiatkowski
Nov 19, 2015
As the saying goes, "history repeats itself." In June, we wrote an article about an interview that was done with the imprisoned "serial infector," David Kwiatkowski. If you'll recall, Kwiatkowski is serving a 39-year sentence for infecting nearly fifty people with the hepatitis C virus after intravenously injecting the painkiller fentanyl, then swapping saline back into the tubes and having the needles re-used on patients. In the article were detailed accounts of his drinking and...Read More - More than 2,000 patients exposed to Hepatitis C at Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Utah
Nov 13, 2015
Our firm is now reviewing cases for those who may have been exposed to Hepatitis C while being treated at Davis Hospital and Medical Center. The current investigation into how a patient at McKay-Dee Hospital became infected with the Hepatitis C virus has now widened its gaze to a second hospital. Layton, Utah's Davis Hospital and Medical Center, just a few miles south of Ogden, Utah-based McKay-Dee Hospital, is sending notices to 2369 patients to...Read More - Nearly 5000 Utah hospital patients at McKay-Dee may have been exposed to Hepatitis C
Nov 10, 2015
In a recent interview, ABC news reported that one of the five thousand, a high school senior in Utah, and his mother are extremely fearful pending the results of his Hepatitis C test. The test was administered after the young man became aware through a letter that a nurse at the hospital had been diverting a type of morphine for her own personal use that was meant to be disposed. The crimes occurred at McKay-Dee...Read More - Kwiatkowski speaks up about hepatitis C exposure scandal
Jun 19, 2015
This past week, "serial infector" David Kwiatkowski granted an interview with Newsweek magazine, the details of which are extremely frightening. Though he had been in contact with the journalist just months after his sentencing, he and jail officials at Hazelton maximum-security prison in West Virginia were scared of the backlash from other prisoners, perhaps placing him in harm's way, though Kwiatkowski says he now has no enemies. In his two years in prison, Kwiatkowski has...Read More - Settlement reached in Mercer County medical malpractice case
Dec 16, 2014
The medical malpractice lawyers at Dallas W. Hartman, P.C. have reached a settlement for a case that left an 87 year old Mercer County woman with no kidneys. This 87 year old woman went to UPMC Horizon in Farrell, Pennsylvania to have a cancerous kidney removed and the operation left her without both kidneys. As a result of the surgery, this 87 year old woman was on dialysis the rest of her life. The medical...Read More - Proposition 46 could increase medical malpractice limits
Nov 10, 2014
Medical malpractice lawsuits could be changing in California because of Proposition 46. Proposition 46 intends to allow patients to receive more money when they are victims of medical malpractice. This proposition would enhance patient safety in California as more than 400,000 Americans die from medical mistakes a year according to The Journal of Patient Safety. This proposition would allow victims of medical malpractice to claim suffering damages up to $1.1 million versus the old limit...Read More - Medical Malpractice in Ebola Outbreak Connected to Eastern Ohio
Oct 16, 2014
Medical Malpractice has led to two hospital workers of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas contracting the Ebola virus. "Sloppy" Ebola protocol has led to over 40 healthcare workers potentially being exposed to the virus. The hospital staff did not wear the proper protective equipment while treating the patient with Ebola. Malpractice was committed because the hospital should have had protocol set up to both quarantine the patient and require hospital staff to wear...Read More - Medical malpractice a serious factor in Ebola outbreak
Oct 10, 2014
A Texas hospital made a grave medical malpractice mistake when it sent a man from Liberia home with Ebola-like symptoms in the middle of the global Ebola outbreak scare. According to sources, hospital staff new the man was from Ebola-ravaged western Africa and sent him home without doing any of the proper Ebola testing. This Texas hospital's error has put at least forty-six people from Dallas at serious risk. If the hospital had followed basic...Read More - Power morcellators cause uterine cancer to spread
Aug 7, 2014
Victims of medical malpractice and defective surgical devices can suffer for a lifetime. Families of those who have passed due to the negligence of a surgeon or medical device manufacturer are left dumbfounded and shocked at their loss, assuming the best before their loved one goes in for surgery; only to be given the worst possible news thereafter. At Dallas W. Hartman, P.C., we have been helping people who are victims of medical malpractice and...Read More