Medical Malpractice

• Oklahoma GOP - Are Caps Conservative?

  Jeremy Thurman | November 22, 2008 12:11 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  A story on wcbstv.com exemplifies the fallacy behind the Oklahoma GOP’s vain attempt to push tort reform more aptly named Civil Amnesty as it’s not reform but Amnesty for big business...

• Nurse Infects Patients and Keeps Practicing

  Jeremy Thurman | March 21, 2008 11:18 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  The following reported by Yahoo is just another scary incident where the medical profession has failed to police itself. With all the talk of tort reform et al, this gives me the biggest evidence against such. Doctors and medical professionals routinely fail to police themselves leaving on us medical malpractice lawyers to do such. I have seen simliar circumstances of coverup, lies and...

• Two doctors cleared in John Ritter's death

  Jeremy Thurman | March 14, 2008 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  It just came accross on yahoo.com that 2 of actor's John Ritter's doctors were cleared of negligence in this high profile medical malpractice case. Yahoo is reporting that the jury cleared a cardiologist and a radiologist today of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of actor John Ritter, who died of a torn aorta in 2003. Jurors found that the radiologist advised Ritter to follow up with...

• Fisher Invokes Fifth Amendment over 40 Times

  Jeremy Thurman | January 29, 2008 9:48 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  The Daily Oklahoman January 29, 2008 By Don Mecoy Business Writer Imprisoned former state Insurance Commissioner Carroll Fisher invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 40 times during a civil trial Monday in federal court to avoid answering questions about his relationship with American Fidelity Assurance Co. "I respectfully decline to answer that question, sir," Fisher said repeatedly, claiming...

• Woman Misdiagnosed With HIV Gets $2.5 M

  Jeremy Thurman | December 13, 2007 9:24 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  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 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  "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." ...

• Medical Malpractice Insured Raking in Profits

  Jeremy Thurman | September 07, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  As we head into another election cycle and legislative year where we are sure to hear the endless drones of our state so called leaders that Oklahoma desperately needs lawsuit reform. They will drone on about how doctors are leaving the state (false) and then proceed to speak about how horrid doctors insurance rates are. Well, I'm here to call them on their fabrication and lies. Below I've...

• Man Dies After Surgeon Operates on Wrong Side of Head

  Jeremy Thurman | August 24, 2007 3:22 PM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  An 86-year-old man has died three weeks after a surgeon operated on the wrong side of his head, and state health authorities were investigating whether the mistake contributed to his death. Here is the linkFor more information on this subject matter, please refer to the section on Medical Malpractice and Negligent Care.

• 250,000 Medicare Deaths a Year Preventable

  Jacob Diesselhorst | April 09, 2007 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Approximately 250,000 Medicare patient deaths involving medical errors could have been prevented, the study found. The study tracked 16 patient safety measures over the three-year period. The safety problems with the highest rate of occurrence were decubitus ulcers or bedsores, failure to rescue, and post-operative respiratory failure. Two years ago, President Bush signed the Patient Safety and...

• Research Finds 40% of Pregnancy-Related Deaths Potentially Preventable

  Jacob Diesselhorst | April 09, 2007 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsOklahoma City, OK

  Washington, DC -- The overall maternal mortality rate in the US is not as low as it could be, according to a review of pregnancy-related deaths published in the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The review found that 40% of all pregnancy-related deaths in North Carolina from 1995-1999 were potentially preventable. Worldwide, complications of pregnancy are a major source of mortality...