Medical Malpractice

• New Cases of Veterans Getting Wrong Cancer Treatment

  Jamie Sheller | August 21, 2009 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  In 2008, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shut down a prostate cancer treatment program that had been running since 2002. The program was shut down after it was...

• Veterans Get Wrong Cancer Treatment At Philadelphia VA Hospital

  Jamie Sheller | June 23, 2009 3:44 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Ninety-two veterans at a VA hospital in Philadelphia received incorrect cancer treatment. Over the course of six years, the veterans, who were being treated for prostate cancer, were given the wrong...

• Hospitalized Children At Risk for Drug Errors

  Jamie Sheller | September 04, 2008 3:31 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  It is difficult for anyone whose loved one is hurt by a medical-related error while in the hospital. However, it is especially difficult for a parent to have their child suffer from such an error. A...

• Patients Experience Difficulty Trying to Obtain Medical Records

  Jamie Sheller | May 23, 2008 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Under federal law, every patient or a designated representative has the right to see and copy the patient's medical records. However, according to USA Today's Patient Safety website, missing or...

• Man Received Cancerous Lungs in Transplant, Lawsuit Filed

  Jamie Sheller | April 09, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  A lawsuit has been filed that claims that a man received cancerous lungs during a transplant and then died six months later. A spokeswoman for the Penn Health System, Susan Phillips, stated that...

• Woman Awarded $12 Million in Breast Cancer Case

  Jenny Albano | February 29, 2008 8:44 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  A women was awarded $12 million by a Philadelphia jury in a terminal breast cancer suit against her two doctors who allegedly did not diagnose the cancer before it had progressed to a terminal stage.According to the plaintiffs attorney, Donna Lee Jones, one of the doctors settled before the trial, but the jury found that the doctor who settled was still 35% responsible for his failure to...

• How safe are you in the hospital?

  Jamie Sheller | February 20, 2008 3:13 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Is it safer to be in the hospital during the day when having a heart attack than in the evening? According to recent research, a higher percentage of heart attack patients get better care during the day at a hospital, than between the hours of 11 pm and 6 am. Apparently, hospitals are better staffed and more attentive to patient needs during the day. Sadly, those who rely upon the staff the...

• Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis caused by pain pumps

  Jamie Sheller | January 03, 2008 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis, or PAGCL, is a painful condition in the shoulder caused when the cartilage between the humeral head and the ball and socket of your shoulder has broken down to the point where bone meets bone. Recently, studies have shown that pain pumps used after shoulder surgery is a leading cause for this pain. While these products are still available on the...

• Thoratec Implantable Ventricular Assist Devices Recalled

  Jamie Sheller | November 20, 2007 2:40 PM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Thoratec Corporation has recalled its Implantable Ventricular Assist Devices (IVAD) catalog number 10012-2555-001, serial numbers 488 or higher. The recalled devices were manufactured and distributed from October 1,2 004 through October 22, 2007. These IVAD's are used to help pump blood through the body of a person whose body is too weak to perform that function. The IVAD can be implanted or...

• Micro-bubble contrast agents may cause death or serious cardiapulmonary reactions

  Jamie Sheller | November 16, 2007 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsPhiladelphia, PA

  Reports of death and serious cardiopulmonary reactions to the micro-bubble contrast agents used with ultrasounds has caused the FDA to require revisions to the labels of these products. Micro-bubble ultrasound contrast agents are used in the administration of ultrasounds to view the heart. Definity and Optison are the only micro-bubble products approved for use in the USA. The adverse...