Medical Malpractice

• Study Finds Most Angioplasties Unnecessary

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  You are having chest pains and emergency room doctors believe it's a heart attack.Most commonly they turn to angioplasty - a procedure that inserts a tiny balloon into a block heart artery and inflates it so a stent can be permanently placed there.A new landmark study says about half a million of these procedures are unnecessary--the results could be as easily achieved with drugs. The findings...

• Dirty Surgery Instruments

  Eddie Farah | January 13, 2007 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Last November Jennifer Backman, a Navy wife gave the government a notice of intent to file a $5 million suit against the government. The allegations allege Navy surgeons at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida used unsterilized instruments during an operation. The hospital's commanding officer, Capt. Raquel Bono, denied such claims, stating, "We would never use dirty or contaminated...

• Orange Park Medical Center Sued

  Eddie Farah | December 01, 2006 7:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  An Orange Park, Florida family intends on filing a"> lawsuit against the Orange Park Medical Center for a do no resuscitate order.Hector Soto-Velez, age 82, went to the OP Medical Center hospital with complains of ankle pain. On Christmas morning 2005, three days later, he died of acute respiratory failure. Hospital records reflected he heart rate dropped slowly after given pain killer or...

• Surgeon Used Dirty Instruments

  Eddie Farah | November 30, 2006 7:46 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  A Navy wife in Jacksonville, Florida is preparing to bring a $5 million damage suit against the Naval Air Station where she recently had surgery for a herniaJennifer Backman claims she received a telephone call from the surgeon who advised her he recently discovered non-sterile instruments were used on her, and advised her to come to the naval hospital for blood tests and antibiotics.The Naval...

• Flesh-Eating Bacteria Lawsuit Settled

  Eddie Farah | October 12, 2006 7:25 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  In 2004, Dorothy Hartman went to The Vein Clinic, located in Jacksonville, FL, to have a painful varicose vein removed. During the process she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria and now is permanently disfigured for life. She was in a coma for over a month, and spent the next seven months in hospitals under going numerous surgeries and multiple skin grafts, followed by visits to rehabilitation...

• Health Care Costs

  Eddie Farah | June 23, 2006 4:01 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Chicago, Oct 7 - Postoperative infections, surgical wounds accidentally opened and other often preventable complications lead to more than 32,000 U. S. hospital deaths and more than $9 billion in extra costs annually.Many of these complications included medical objects left inside patients after surgery. These are preventable medical errors. The most serious complications were post-surgery...

• Human Tissue Scandal

  Eddie Farah | June 22, 2006 3:07 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Hundreds of Americans are facing a new problem that of potentially infected tissue used in transplant surgery. Healthy people are getting sick when they are supposed to be receiving life saving tissue transplants. Instead of getting better, they are being implanted with contaminated tissue that was acquired illegally from corpses.The FDA is investigating and has issued an alert to physicians,...

• Nursing Home Justice

  Eddie Farah | June 21, 2006 8:38 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Substandard care of nursing home residents makes jurors angry.Nursing home abuse is abounded and often involves deaths, horrible injuries, dehydration, malnutrition, fractures, and brain injuries. Most jurors walking in to a courtroom believe that nursing homes value profit more than resident care. These types of lawsuits are about monetary damages. Jurors feel sorry for the plaintiff that...

• Dentist Malpractice Leads to Frightening Discovery

  Staff Writer | May 27, 2006 3:29 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Fellow InjuryBoard blogger, Tampa injury attorney Bob Carroll, brought my attention to the story of a Pensacola woman who had filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against her dentist who had apparently filed for complete disability with his insurance company only to go back to work when his claim was denied. As if this wasn't enough, the woman later discovered her dentist had died, and his death...