The baby boomer generation is getting older, which means more and more of this population of people will be requiring medical procedures like hip implants. In fact, it’s estimated that in as few as fifteen years, people in the United States will be getting up to one million hip implants per year. A hip implant […]
In a case that has been ongoing for several years, a twenty-three-year-old Missouri man is suing his dentist for pulling thirty-two teeth that did not need to be pulled. The patient claims that he was suffering from a tooth abscess, and so he sought the help of his dentist in 2009. Upon examining his patient, […]
The largest sum in more than twenty-five years for a medical malpractice case in Johnson County was awarded to a family this past week, according to an article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website. The case centered around the death of a forty-year-old man whom his parents claimed committed suicide after being administered a steroid […]
Medical malpractice is defined as any time a licensed health care provider digresses from what is considered to be a normal standard of care for a patient. Basically, medical malpractice indicates that a physician has been negligent, and these claims can be difficult to prove. However, with your St. Louis personal injury attorney on your […]
As a doctor, Dr. Julio Diaz took an oath to promote good health in his patients, and never cause harm. However, of the many patients who were prescribed an incredible amount of pain medication by Diaz, eleven of them have died. Others are suffering from severe drug addiction. According to the article on the UPI website, Dr. […]
More and more doctors have started performing tonsillectomies as a way to treat sleep apnea in their patients. However, some medical professionals are saying that these procedures are too risky to perform on certain populations because there has not been enough research done to prove their effectiveness. A thirteen-year-old California girl underwent a tonsillectomy earlier […]
One former hospital employee was sentenced recently for infecting dozens of patients with Hepatitis C, according to an article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website. The thirty-four-year-old man would steal pain killers in the hospitals he worked in, and replace them with saline-filled syringes that had his own blood on them. Many patients used these […]
According to Forbes.com, medical negligence is the third leading cause of death in the United States. That puts it right behind heart disease and cancer. Many people have a significant reason for pursuing a medical malpractice case, but they are unsure about the facts. Here are a few for you to consider, as you think […]
Erin Brockovich is taking a stand, along with many women all over the United States, to fight against what they believe to be faulty information they were given about getting the sterilization device, Essure, implanted in their fallopian tubes. Many of these women have suffered from various side effects because of the device, which is supposed […]
A Springfield, Mo. man has files a medical malpractice suit against Mercy Clinic in Springfield, Mo. and two of its physicians, claiming that they failed to provide proper treatment to prevent the spread of flesh-eating bacteria. Claiming he was denied emergency room treatment because he did not have health insurance, a claim the clinic disputes, […]
