We often go to the pharmacy, hand over the medication prescription given to us by our physician and assume that we will be given the proper medication. Not once do we take into consideration that the pharmacist will make a...
Broken Hearted: West Palm Beach Hospital With Unusually High Death Rates For Pediatric Cardiac Surgeries
July 10, 2015
Recently, an investigative report from the national media blew the whistle on a West Palm Beach, Florida hospital that allowed underqualified and understaffed medical providers to perform heart surgeries on children and...
Cosmetic Surgery: Sometimes An Elective Procedure Can Have Life Threatening Consequences
July 8, 2015
Because cosmetic surgery procedures are almost always elective surgery on the part of the patient, these types of cases are more difficult to litigate in front of a jury panel. Why? Because many jurors opine that in many...
Major New Decision in Florida Malpractice Law – North Broward Hospital District v. Kalitan
July 6, 2015
On July 1, 2015, the Fourth District Court of Appeals issued a major decision affecting medical malpractice injury cases. In the case of North Broward Hospital District v. Kalitan, the court held that the arbitrary caps on...
Defective Medical Device: Da Vinci Surgical Robots
March 14, 2013
The Da Vinci Surgical Robot, manufactured by Intuitive Surgical, Inc., is used in several medical specialties including: Urology, Gynecology, Cardiothoracic, Colorectal, Head & Neck, and General Surgery. Specifically, the