The Healthcare-Malpractice
Journal

About half of all surgeries involve some kind of medication error or unintended drug side effects, if a new study is accurate.

The rate, calculated by researchers from the anesthesiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital who observed 277 procedures there, is startlingly high compared with those in the few earlier studies. Those studies...

Hospital mistake destroys young woman's life

The Expert report is critical to a successful malpractice litigation.  The rules for the report include:  the well-established practice of lawyers meeting with expert witnesses to review draft reports is acceptable, so long as the report reflects the expert’s genuine and unbiased opinion so a party seeking draft reports or notes...

Making sure elderly patients fully understand discharge instructions and the amount of pain medication they should take following procedures performed at surgery centers will lower readmissions, suggests a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago reviewed the...

The True story of Katie May's wrongful death?

Without a warrant and without initially identifying themselves, federal agents searched patient medical records in an office of Dallas-area physicians, based merely on a state administrative subpoena. A month later the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), based on representations by one of those federal agents, sought to enforce an administrative subpoena demanding...