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Medical Malpractice

Doctors are entrusted to take care of us when we're injured, treat us when we're sick, and maintain a standard of care, so as to "do no harm". Unfortunately, doctors make mistakes, and when they do, serious injuries can occur. It is in these cases that the law provides a means of granting the injured person compensation to help them become "whole".

This means, in a nutshell, medical malpractice victims have the right to file a lawsuit against the negligent doctor, and receive monetary compensation to cover all expenses, pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, and lost current and future income.

Why Do Good Medical Malpractice Cases Go Unprosecuted?

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Why do good medical malpractice cases go unprosecuted? Read more

The bottom line is, many good medical malpractice cases do not end up in a civil suit, because the damages are too small. Medical malpractice lawsuits are so costly to prosecute, that if the damages are only a few thousand dollars, it will not be worth it for an attorney, or their client, to bother bringing one.

Emphasizing Patient Safety Benefits Both Doctors and Patients

Emphasizing patient safety benefits both doctors and patients.
That common sense conclusion is the recent finding from the RAND Corporation, a think tank and research center funded by insurance companies.
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Long Island Neurosurgeons Do Surgery For Financial Gain

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The State Office of Professional Medical Conduct is probing the two Long Island neurosurgeons accused of doing questionable surgery for financial gain, the Daily News has learned.
Dr. Thomas Milhorat, North Shore University Hospital's former chief of neurosurgery, and his protégé, Dr. Paolo Bolognese, could lose their licenses to practice medicine.
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Medical Malpractice and Informed Consent

In order to reduce the amount of harmful medical treatment, the medical profession requires informed consent from patients for all but the most drastic and time-sensitive procedures. Read more

Caps On Damages Do Not Lower Malpractice Premiums

Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas and California are all states that have enacted legislation which has placed caps on the damages a victim of medical malpractice may recover. In every instance, law makers supporting the caps have been bombarded with false and misleading information from the insurance industry blaming the skyrocketing costs of physicians' medical malpractice premiums on lawsuits and the trial lawyers who bring lawsuits for medical malpractice. Read more

Medical Malpractice: Do I Have A Case?

Frequently, I am asked from the public as to whether what was done to them by a doctor gives rise to a case of medical malpractice.  This is one example of a question asked of my firm which is similar to many others. I thought publishing it here on the LCJ website would be helpful to readers:  Read more

Surgeons + Burnout = Medical Malpractice

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Major medical errors self-reported by American surgeons are strongly related to both burnout and depression. Those findings appear in the online edition of Annals of Surgery. The Mayo Clinic-led study included collaborators from Johns Hopkins and the American College of Surgeons. Read more

What is Medical Malpractice?

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Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider--a doctor, nurse, dentist, technician, hospital or hospital worker-whose performance of duties departs from a standard of practice of those with similar training and experience, resulting in harm to a patient or patients. Most medical malpractice actions are filed against doctors who have failed to use reasonable care to treat you. The profession itself sets the standard for malpractice by its own custom and practice. Read more