On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 26, 2015 | Traumatic Brain Injuries
Eleven years after a surgeon operated on the wrong side of a patient’s brain and attempted to cover it up, the hospital where he worked has been ordered to pay $2 million to the patient and his family. Few wrong-site surgical errors could have so profound an...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 24, 2015 | Surgical Errors
Besides causing injury and suffering to the victim, medical malpractice can be very expensive. A 2013 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that a surgical patient’s bill more than triples, on average, when there are complications...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 22, 2015 | Anesthesia & Medication Errors
In our country’s “war on drugs,” one problem that is gaining increasingly more attention is addiction to prescription drugs, especially painkillers. Many of these powerful drugs are highly addictive, and patients who take them at first to deal with...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 20, 2015 | Failure To Diagnose & Misdiagnosis
The National Academy of Medicine reported that diagnostic errors often result in devastating consequences for patients. In fact, an error in diagnosis reportedly is a factor in 10 percent of patient deaths. Hundreds of thousands of individuals every year face tragic...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 20, 2015 | Surgical Errors
Experienced medical malpractice attorneys have long known that it can be difficult to discover information about a mistake made in the operating room. The patient is usually sedated or unconscious, after all, and has no idea what is going on during surgery. And in the...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 18, 2015 | Failure To Diagnose & Misdiagnosis
If you ever get a stomachache so bad that you have to go to the emergency room, watch out: there is a good chance that ER doctors will misdiagnose your condition, according to a news report. A study recently released by the Baylor College of Medicine suggests that one...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 16, 2015 | Anesthesia & Medication Errors
Before a surgery takes place, a doctor or surgical nurse will sit down with the patient. In this pre-operative meeting, the doctor will explain the surgical procedure. There is a measure of uncertainty in any surgery, which is why a doctor will discuss the health...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 13, 2015 | Failure To Diagnose & Misdiagnosis
A patient and LifeHealthPRO columnist recently wrote about his back-to-back medical appointments. They were “different” to say the least. While there may have been some personality variations between staff members, technology was the driving factor in making these two...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 11, 2015 | Failure To Diagnose & Misdiagnosis
New, attention-grabbing research out of the British Medical Journal has indicated that specialists who spent more on patient care were less likely to be sued for medical malpractice. The study looked at 24,000 physicians in Florida over nine years. Researchers...
On behalf of Barry D. Lang, M.D. & Associates | Nov 6, 2015 | Failure To Diagnose & Misdiagnosis
Multiple sclerosis, also referred to by its short-hand name MS, is a disorder in which the body’s own immune system attacks the fatty material that surrounds the nerve fibers, causing damage in the process. This damage, which can occur in places such as the...
