Category: Medical Malpractice

It’s been over three years since Angel Rivera was left to die in the waiting room of the ER at Lincoln Hospital in New York. On July 19th, 2014, Mr. Rivera was brought in after suffering a head injury. Head injuries are recognized by medical professionals as particularly dangerous, in

Colonoscopies are recommended for routine cancer screening for Americans over the age of 50. Millions of these procedures are performed every year. During a colonoscopy, a long thin tube called an endoscope is inserted into the rectum, then navigated by a surgeon until it reaches the colon. Once there, a

Selling false hope to people suffering from significant medical issues is nothing new. “Snake oil salesmen” traveled the Old West, peddling miracle cures that were often little more than alcohol mixed with whatever random substances the salesman had. These “cures” never actually cured anything, but they made the huckster enough

Drafting a bill is often difficult work for politicians. This can be especially true when dealing with an issue as complex as the American healthcare system. Determining coverage requirements and limits, addressing medication and availabilities and costs, and defining the separation between state and federal responsibilities often takes hundreds of

Addiction to prescription pain killers has become an increasingly deadly epidemic in this country. The number of deaths from these drugs is almost triple the amount of deaths from other prescription medications, and the number of overdose deaths is at an all-time high. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win,” Gandhi said, and it seems that proponents of a controversial theory that Alzheimer’s disease is transmittable have proceeded past the ridicule stage. Scientists are starting to fight them. Last September, researchers first proposed the

Fourteen years ago, one of the most important clinical studies of the 21st Century was released. Dubbed Study 329, it claimed to prove that the drug paroxetine (commonly sold by GlaxoSmithKline as Paxil) was safe to prescribe for individuals under the age of 18. Using this data, GlaxoSmithKline marketed the

After a two-week trial, Finz & Finz, P.C.,  obtained a seven figure verdict on behalf of a client who was injured as a result of medical malpractice that occurred during the course of a cardiac catheterization procedure. The Defendants who were a doctor and the facility where the procedure was

The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety has released its most recent findings, and they aren’t very good. The Center tracks public health outcomes for the state of Massachusetts, and was created in response to the death of a 39-year-old mother of two due to medical error. The center was

Fail-safes are supposed to exist for a reason, to make sure that no matter how many mistakes any one individual makes, the worst-case scenario is never realized. A hospital in Oregon supposedly had fail-safes, but what happened there on December 1st, 2014 is simply proof that fail-safes are only as