Articles Posted in Medical Malpractice

In my law practice in Atlanta, Georgia, we get inquiries about hospital, nursing home or home health care patients who die or suffer serious injuries due to being entrapped in a gap between the mattress and guard rail in a hospital bed. If you have ever spent night after night in a hospital room keeping…

As an Atlanta lawyer handling mostly catastrophic truck wreck cases, I tend to view doctors more as friends than adversaries.  However, the opinions of some notwithstanding, they are as human as the rest of us. The X-Ray Technicians blog recently posted a list of medical procedures with very high profit margins, suggesting that at least…

As a personal injury attorney in Atlanta, I was initially one of those who feared the worst when the Georgia legislature passed it omnibus tort reform legislation, Senate Bill 3, in 2005.   It was as if the political power structure had done everything it possibly could to kill victims of negligence — and the lawyers…

As a trial lawyer representing injury victims in trucking accident cases in Georgia, I’m always on the lookout for medications affecting driver alertness.  Another suspect medication has been added to the list. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a warning Thursday on the anti-smoking drug Chantix, advising medical examiners “to not qualify anyone currently…

In Atlanta, Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington issued an order on Wednesday that the legislative cap of $350,000 for noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering is unconstitutional because it gave special protections to the medical profession. This meant people injured by doctors had less protection than those injured by any other cause. The cause…

Occasionally we get calls from potential clients who are interested in a possible malpractice suit based on alleged malpractice in a hospital emergency room. Even if the medical treatment appears to fall short of an appropriate standard of care, we have to explain to them that as a practical matter there is no case. The…

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released a list of the nation’s 54 worst nursing homes.  Three in Georgia are on the list:

Though I have not personally encountered it yet, there apparently has been a recent proliferation of a defense tactic of offering to represent witnesses at no charge in order to limit the plaintiff attorney’s access to the witnesses.  This may be particularly a problem in medical malpractice cases but it could occur in any type…

A study published yesterday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, reached the conclusion that doctors’ disclosures about themselves fail to either help patients or establish rapport with the patients. Rather, the study showed that many doctors waste patients’ time and lose their focus in office visits by interjecting irrelevant information about themselves.  The researchers started…

Two articles in the May 9th  New York Times highlight a pattern of pharmaceutical industry payments of doctors being linked to dramatically increased prescriptions of questionable drugs. First, one report indicates that pharmaceutical companies have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to doctors in return for prescribing anemia drugs, the safety and effectiveness of which…