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• Woman Misdiagnosed With HIV Gets $2.5 M

  Jeremy Thurman | December 13, 2007 9:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  I recently came across this article on the AP detailing a jury verdict for $2.5 million for a woman who underwent 9 years of AIDS treatments when she actually did not have the virus. The article states that "a jury awarded $2.5 million in damages to a woman who received HIV treatments for almost nine years before discovering she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS. In her lawsuit...

• Doctors Fail To Report Medical Mistakes

  Jeremy Thurman | December 05, 2007 3:16 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  "There is a measurable disconnect between what physicians say they think is the right thing to do and what they actually do," said Eric Campbell of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led a survey showing that "nearly half of all U.S. doctors fail to report incompetent or unethical colleagues, even though they agree that such mistakes should be reported." ...