Medical Malpractice News

There are a few people in your life that you must be able to trust without reservations. Your spouse. Your clergyman. Your children’s babysitter. Of course, it’s easy to explain the vital importance of trust in these relationships. They have more to do with the heart and emotions than with anything else. We offer intuitive … Read more

Few of us visit the hospital even for routine procedures, without some level of anxiety. But in 2009, a woman admitted to Long Island’s Winthrop University Hospital was drawn into a situation beyond anything she could have imagined. ‘It Kept Getting Worse’ It was an ectopic pregnancy that initially  sent Stacey Galette to the hospital. … Read more

Last November, the United Kingdom was hit with a shocking statistic. The Daily Mail newspaper reported that in the past year, more than 3,500 people died in hospitals run by the country’s National Health Service. The cause? Surgical errors, mistakes in medication, and overworked staff. “Avoidable” Deaths The number of deaths due to hospital error … Read more

A recent letter to The Ethicist column in The New York Times brought a perspective worth considering to the question of medical malpractice. Manned by author Chuck Klosterman, the column offers insight on the moral obligations humans have in given situations. Everyone from wronged spouses to kleptomaniac office workers write in with their ethical conundrums. … Read more

When a bar serves alcoholic beverages to minors, the establishment often loses its license to sell alcohol. When a psychiatrist engages in an inappropriate relationship with a patient, he or she may lose the license to practice. The same is true for attorneys — as it should be. But the professional standard is not quite … Read more

Earlier this year, we told you about Lavern Wilkinson, a New York City woman on the verge of death from cancer that doctors failed to take note of for two years, despite adequate scans. As a doctor involved in the case put it succinctly in a report quoted in the Daily News: “… apparently nobody … Read more

Birth defects have been a large part of Betty Mekdeci’s life for nearly four decades now. In 1975, she gave birth to a son with birth defects some experts believe were caused by a morning-sickness medication she took during pregnancy, Bendectin. (Much, much more on this later.) Since then, she and her husband Mike have … Read more