Category: Medical Malpractice
Most people don’t expect to feel worse following a flu shot. After the bruise heals and the Band-Aid is removed, we look forward to a year free from worry about contracting the flu from our friends, family or co-workers. Unfortunately, for many people vaccinated with the 2009 H1N1 vaccine, the effects of this immunization were […]
A German hospital was recently sued for medical malpractice after surgeons allegedly left 16 surgical instruments inside of a cancer patient’s body during a 2009 operation. Although this may be the most radical example of gross hospital and doctor negligence covered by the media in quite a while, complications that result from preventable surgical errors […]
What began as a constellation of seemingly isolated cases of deadly infections has become a raging nationwide outbreak of a rare fungal meningitis linked to contaminated epidural steroid injections. The disease continues to spread, and the latest numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control are staggering: 510 illnesses from fungal meningitis and peripheral joint […]