Medical Malpractice

• Long Legal Battle Ends With $3 Million Verdict

  David Mittleman | June 05, 2009 7:27 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI

  Earlier this week, a jury awarded an Owosso, Michigan, woman $2.9 million in her medical malpractice action against an area hospital, two doctors, and their professional corporations. In the...

• Malpractice Verdict of $16 Million Allowed to Stand

  David Mittleman | January 15, 2009 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A San Diego-area judge refused to alter a jury verdict of $16 million in favor of the bereaved parents of an infant who died due to medical malpractice. After a nine-day trial, the jury found that...

• Can a Photograph Save Your Life?

  David Mittleman | December 05, 2008 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Doctors who read diagnostic images - such as x-rays, MRIs, and CT scans - see a lot of pictures over the course of their day. One picture they usually don’t see, however, is an actual...

• Fatalities Due to Flu and Staph Infections on the Rise

  David Mittleman | October 24, 2008 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  There has been a rising trend in the number of flu related deaths in the U.S. amongst 5-17 year-old children due to concurrent staph infections. Generally, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized...

• Hospital Mistakes Cause More Deaths Than Car Accidents

  David Mittleman | September 05, 2008 9:03 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Along with providing medical treatments to patients, hospitals have now become notorious for its hazardous conditions because of drug mix-ups, infected incisions, bleeding problems...

• Mistaken Identity as Medical Malpractice

  David Mittleman | August 14, 2008 2:28 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  It is a lesson we try to teach children from a very young age: Everyone is a unique individual, with his or her own strengths and weaknesses, and nothing can change that. Wrong-patient procedures,...

• Simple Michigan hospital program that saves lives and money shut down by federal government

  David Mittleman | February 14, 2008 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A certain amount of government involvement in medical care is unavoidable, and is usually beneficial. You certainly don't want to undergo surgery by a doctor who is not licensed, or be prescribed medications that have not been tested on human beings. But there are times when the Federal Government goes from a friendly father figure to a crazy uncle, and the results can be deadly.On any given...

• Cerebral palsy and it's relation to prenatal development and delivery complications

  David Mittleman | December 21, 2007 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  In the United States, it is estimated that 1.5 to 2 million people have cerebral palsy, with an annual diagnosis rate of approximately 10,000. Cerebral palsy is a neurological disorder that causes a defect in the ability of a persons brain to control their muscle movement. There are three general categories of cerebral palsy: spastic, ataxic, and athetoid/dyskinetic. While there is no one...

• Busy Pharmacy and Over-Worked Pharmacist is Prescription for Error

  David Mittleman | December 07, 2007 8:25 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Pharmacy error in both the local neighborhood stores and hospital setting is on the rise. The consequences of Pharmacy errors can range from harmless to fatal. More than 100,000 Americans die each year of adverse drug reactions, according to an article in the Journal of The American Medical Association. No one knows for sure how many of those deaths are the direct result of...

• $17.3 Million Settlement Reached in Medical Malpractice Case

  David Mittleman | May 01, 2009 9:40 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  In June 2007, eight-year-old Shelbey Bomkamp underwent a procedure to have her spleen removed at St. Mary’s Hospital, in Madison, Wisconsin. Court documents stated that Dr. Leonard Go used a...