New Jersey residents may be familiar with case of a young girl who passed away because of a failure to diagnose properly. The family of the young girl claims that the doctor diagnosed the child with flu when she actually had pneumonia. The failure to diagnose the...
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Focus: Medical disciplinary matter spotlights regulatory process
Doctors in New Jersey and nationally occasionally subject themselves to intense scrutiny in regard to their medical practices and treatment of patients. Sometimes that focus comes from state and federal health regulators, especially where an established pattern of...
Court shoots down proposal that would hinder malpractice victims
Every state in the country, New Jersey not excepted, has legal provisions in the form of statutory law that address what might be regarded as the essentials of medical malpractice.That is, legislators have drafted legislation that covers core areas of importance...
Doctor errors lead to $1 million verdict
Parents put their trust in doctors when a child needs medical attention. For many parents, trusting the doctors works out in the end, and the child gets adequate medical care. There are some instances, however, in which doctors make errors. New Jersey residents might...
Woman asks $400,000 but receives $60,000 in medical malpractice
When your doctor in New Jersey, or anywhere in the country, recommends surgery, you not only trust their opinion, but you trust their expertise in performing the surgery. No one expects to go into surgery to have an organ repaired and to come out with other...
Study cites need for greater consistency in kids’ medical care
"Kids aren't just small adults."So says Dr. Jack Percelay, an official with the American Academy of Pediatrics, who cites a close connection between that misconception and the medical mistakes that are sometimes visited upon children.A recently issued report authored...
Upgraded brain scans could improve brain injury diagnoses
Head injuries have been front and center in the collective American mindset for several years now, with media accounts of traumatic brain injury -- including, centrally, concussions --- regularly featuring in stories concerning head trauma suffered by people engaged...
Smart design in the hospital environment can help reduce errors
This great irony has always existed in hospitals, whether they are in New Jersey or anywhere else: They are at once facilities where people go to get better while at the same time being environments marked by heightened risk factors that can imperil the health of...
New Jersey plantiiffs can see compensation for medical losses
A St. Louis man suffering from medical errors committed by a VA Medical Center was recently awarded $8.3 million by a federal judge. A father of three, the plaintiff is now paralyzed and mostly non-communicative. The award was split between the plaintiff ($6.8...
Better clarity key aim of new term-pregnancy guidelines
The list of things that can go wrong when medical error features in a baby's delivery in New Jersey or elsewhere is both sobering and lengthy. Birth injury can result from a number of negligent medical acts or omissions during delivery, and outcomes such as cerebral...