Articles Posted in Medical Negligence

Here is an interesting article published in a Memphis newspaper.

Kaiser Permanente is advancing the cause of patient safety by using a “Preoperative Safety Briefing” similar in concept to preflight checklists used in the airline industry. A one-page checklist was developed and used for the project. In a six-month trial project wrong site surgeries were eliminated (there had been three…

There is no decision yet in the Calloway case. Until there is, it may be wise to assume that the three-year statute of repose in medical negligence cases trumps the rights of minors. I will let you know as soon as I hear something on this important case.

Plaintiff filed a medical negligence lawsuit. She enjoyed an occasional joint, before and after her injury. At trial, the defendant called four witnesses to say that the use of pot could affect a doctor’s treatment of her. None testified that it did affect treatment. The jury returned a verdict for…

The Washington Post reports that “Americans pay more when they get sick than people in other Western nations and get more confused, error-prone treatment, according to the largest survey to compare U.S. health care with other nations.” The Post also states that “Americans also reported the greatest number of medical…

Apparently not every doctor in America is willing to accept the propaganda from liability insurance carriers that “your rates are the fault of greedy trial lawyers.” This doctor wants information, and is pushing legislation to get it. Read more here.

A friend who is getting ready to file a medical negligence case told me that his medical consultant said this about the case: “It took a whole group of doctors to kill this woman.” The consultant was not suggesting that the doctors conspired to hurt, much less “kill”, the patient.…

The Tennessee Supreme Court has just granted a Rule 9 application in a medical negligence case, even though the Tennessee Court of Appeals refused to do so. The plaintiff had an abdominal operation several years ago and learned more than three years later that a clip was left on one…

Where’s the beef? Rep. Rob Briley lead an effort to make medical malpractice insurers and health care providers to reveal to the State of Tennessee what their claims experience was. Malpractice insurers and health care providers fought this type of disclosure for almost two decades and, given what was disclosed,…

Rueters reports that “in a review of patient specimens, errors in cancer diagnosis were seen in up to 11.8 percent of cases, according to a report in the medical journal Cancer. Moreover, in a substantial proportion of cases, the error caused some degree of harm for the patient.” The article…