Surgery Malpractice

In analyzing whether you have a good medical malpractice case, we’ll look at three issues: 1. Did the Doctor Make an Inexcusable Mistake? It is not enough in a medical malpractice case to prove that a doctor made a mistake. Some mistakes are excusable and are not medical malpractice. For example,...

Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Misdiagnosis Causes Severe Injuries and Death More than 100,000 weight-loss procedures are performed annually in the United States alone, and numbers are rising. Although these “bariatric” surgeries are lucrative for the doctors who perform weight loss surgery and are...

One of the most consistent goals of so-called “tort reform” is to put an upper limit on the amount that a defendant has to pay for the damage he causes in injury suits. For example, in Texas, where there are such limits, a doctor can kill a child or a housewife or a grandfather through malpractice...

Spinal Injuries Due to Unnecessary Steroid Injections Rising Each day in the United States, thousands of people undergo injections in their necks or lower backs with steroids. These injections are meant to be given just above the "dura" of the spinal cord. The dura is a tough covering over the...

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Help Everyone Talk radio hosts and insurance lobbyists have made their careers criticizing people who file suit – as if using the courts guaranteed by the Constitution was dirty. Who is funding all this talk? People who get sued and their insurance companies, of course...

Wrongful Death Lawsuits At my firm we handle a variety of Wrongful Death lawsuits. Because we work on so many medical malpractice cases, most of the Wrongful Death suits we handle are also medical malpractice cases. Just yesterday, I had a client call us about a medical malpractice case, but she...

The Common Surgery that Can Be Uncommonly Dangerous Hysterectomy surgery--in which a woman's uterus is removed--is an extremely common surgery. Tens of thousands of American women have this operation done every year. Over the last several decades, improvements in equipment and techniques have made...

Ideally, dental implants offer a one-and-done option for tooth replacement. Boasting permanence and offering benefits not produced by other artificial tooth options, dental implants are among the most popular solutions for replacing missing teeth. But what are your options when your cosmetic...

Not every surgery turns out the way patients would prefer. There are a number of factors that can influence the results of a surgical procedure – and some are beyond the control of doctors, nurses, and others involved in the process. However, in some cases, undesirable outcomes from a surgical...