If you have never heard the term "never events" you are not alone. However, if you believe you have suffered from a surgical error, this is a term with which you should become familiar.Never events are clearly wrong and often shocking surgical errors that should never...
Surgical Errors
Taking action when surgical errors occur
Undergoing any kind of surgical procedure can be frightening, especially when you consider how many surgical errors occur in New Jersey and the rest of the nation. Sadly, many people become victims of surgical errors in the United States each year, often caused by...
Plaintiffs win medical malpractice suit alleging retained object
It is one of life's ironies that the simplest and most preventable mistakes are sometimes the most devastating. In medicine, for instance, the most skilled surgeon can cause serious harm to a patient by being careless about collecting tools at the end of a...
Ambulatory surgery: the risks of post-procedure infections
Medical malpractice acts and omissions cover a broad gamut of possibilities in New Jersey hospitals and other medical facilities across the country.The usual list of suspects centrally includes things like misdiagnosis (failure to properly or timely diagnose),...
Robot-assisted surgery: on the rise, but with questions attached
The use of high-tech medical devices in surgeries performed in New Jersey hospitals and other medical facilities nationally "is exploding," notes a recent media article that is most specifically centered on robot-assisted surgery.The medical device maker Intuitive...
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...
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...
Preventable medical mistakes: an enduring research focus
It is certainly one of the medical industry's central frustrations that preventable medical errors recur in hospitals nationally, including in New Jersey.Over and over and over again.That they do is especially disconcerting because the error rate for things like...
An obvious concern: surgical objects left inside patients’ bodies
Calling it "a well-known problem, but one that can be prevented," an official with the Joint Commission -- a nonprofit entity that accredits more than 20,000 health care organizations across the country -- recently put the spotlight on so-called "unintended retention...
FDA, others increasingly focused on robotic surgery claims
We last reported on robotic surgery in the United States in a September 5, 2013, blog post. We noted therein a related comment from Martin A. Makary, a noted doctor and medical commentator. In discussing the scope and dimensions of surgical error in connection with...
