Medical Malpractice

• Should we be concerned about CAT Scans?

  Steve Lombardi | March 12, 2009 12:47 PM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  A computed tomography scan (“CT scan” or “CAT scan”), which is a procedure that takes no more than a few minutes, is a medical imaging method that is used to create...

• Stepping On the Little Guy: Utah legislature moves to shield emergency room staff from financial responsibility for their mistakes.

  Steve Lombardi | March 11, 2009 11:37 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  The Utah Legislature passed SB79 changing the law of negligence when the plaintiff is injured by shoddy medical practice in the emergency room. The bill changes the burden of proof to the higher...

• Stepping on the Little Guy: Hawaii, like Texas is moving towards socializing medicine

  Steve Lombardi | March 05, 2009 10:45 AM | 1 CommentDes Moines, IA

  In a move that would make Karl Marx proud, a bill to put caps on damages in just medical malpractice cases is making its way through the Hawaii Legislature. Like Texas, Hawaii no long is willing...

• Transplanted organs could be diseased

  Steve Lombardi | March 02, 2009 10:51 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in the year 2006 there were a total of 98,263 patients listed on the organ donation waitlist within the United States, but...

• Texas Tort Reform Message – Go west young man; go east or north, but go.

  Steve Lombardi | February 24, 2009 12:36 PM | 3 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Yesterday we discussed David Fitzgerald, a real person, not some fictional character in someone’s imagination but breathing, thinking and probably a pretty angry man. David needed medial care....

• Stepping on the Little Guy: Dallas worker loses all four limbs, is awarded $17.7 million; well, almost, but not quite.

  Steve Lombardi | February 23, 2009 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  There is a joke or two or three that everything in Texas is big. In 2003 the State of Texas decided that everything in Texas should be big except jury awards. In that year with oil prices soaring...

• Patient Safety: Wrong-site surgery on knee ends with sanctions.

  Steve Lombardi | February 20, 2009 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Mariam Hospital, Rhode Island One doctor and two nurses sanctioned were sanctioned by their professional licensing boards for conducting a wrong-site surgery on the wrong knee. The patient...

• Wrong-site surgeries being studied in Minneapolis, Minnesota

  Steve Lombardi | February 09, 2009 2:09 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  It's time out in surgery, as hospitals watch doctors by Minneapolis Star Tribune writer Maura Lerner – This article discusses the use of a “Time-out Towel”. We aren’t...

• Medical News: Offering to Pray for Patient’s Well-Being Gets Nurse Suspended.

  Steve Lombardi | February 06, 2009 10:56 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Huh? Are you kidding me? No, this is for real. I just wrote a blawg post about a Las Vegas jury that found no negligence when a man complaining of chest pain isn’t even examined for...

• Las Vegas Jury Failed to Follow the Law, in Finding for Hospital on Issue of Negligence

  Steve Lombardi | February 05, 2009 11:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A jury in Las Vegas gave the nod to a hospital whose standard of emergent care is to wait 41 minutes to examine a patient complaining of chest pains, and who then dies in the emergency room floor....