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- Medical Malpractice Claim Filed for Partially Disinfected Colonoscopy
Jan 14, 2011
A hospital in Bend, Oregon is being sued for medical malpractice because hospital workers failed to fully sanitize a colonoscopy scope between multiple patients' colonoscopy exams. The hospital has recognized that it did not employ every step in a six step automated cleaning process, and as many as 18 colonoscopy procedures were conducted before hospital workers discovered the problem. The CEO of the hospital acknowledged in a letter that a programming error in the automated...Read More - Medical Malpractice Suit — Kidney Transplant Patient Dies from Rabies
Oct 25, 2010
The case of a teenager who died as a result of contracting rabies from a transplanted kidney went before a state appeals court for argument last Tuesday. The parents of the teenager filed their medical malpractice suit against the hospital where the transplant was performed, the doctor who harvested the kidney and the doctor that performed the transplant operation. The teenager was one of four people who died from the same donor's infected organs. After...Read More - Surgical Sponge Becomes Bane of Surgery
Sep 20, 2010
Ever wonder if you will have a worse quality of life after a surgery because of medical malpractice. Most people think that a surgery is undertaken to improve quality of life but surgical instruments sometimes literally get in the way. A Florida judge found out after five months that a surgical sponge was the cause of his continuing post-surgical pain. To address his stomach pains, the judge had surgery for diverticulitis, which is a digestive...Read More - Department of Public Welfare Sued in Wrongful Death Case
Sep 16, 2010
The mother of a woman who died while in the care of the Ebensburg Center has filed a lawsuit claiming the center's medical staff and the Department of Public Welfare are responsible for the woman's wrongful death. The Ebensburg Center is a long-term care home that serves those with mental illnesses. According to the lawsuit, the deceased woman was admitted to the center in 2007. In December of that year, following what was called a...Read More - Woman Alleges Medical Malpractice Caused Infertility
Aug 30, 2010
A woman from Plymouth, in northeast Pennsylvania, has brought a lawsuit against two doctors and the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital alleging that their medical malpractice resulted in, among other things, pain, anxiety, depression, and infertility. In total, she is seeking $550,000 in damages against the defendants. According to the lawsuit filed last week, Michelle Hebda had previously undergone two surgeries performed by Dr. John Frye and had been diagnosed with endometriosis and chronic pelvic inflammatory disease...Read More - UPMC Montefiore Settles Malpractice and Wrongful Death Case
Aug 6, 2010
The family of an elderly dementia patient recently settled a medical malpractice and wrongful death suit with UPMC Montefiore for a reported $900,000. The settlement was apparently reached in a mediation session late last May and finalized just recently. The deceased patient, Rose Lee Diggs, was an 89-year-old dementia patient at the Village at Pennwood Nursing Home, but had been transferred to UPMC shortly before her death in December of 2008. Allegedly, the nursing home...Read More - Lawsuit Claims Negligence by Hospital Lab Resulted in Death
Jul 19, 2010
A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court alleges that a neurosurgeon performed a riskier than necessary procedure due to an inaccurate laboratory report, ultimately resulting in the death of a 14-year-old girl. The lawsuit was filed in Dauphin County and alleges negligence on the part of employees of Milton S. Hershey Medical Center resulted in the death of Charity McCoy. McCoy was born with a condition called hydrocephalous, commonly called "water on the brain." To...Read More