It is a situation that happens far too often. A family member starts having chest pains. She tells her treating physician who thinks she has heartburn and he recommends taking some antacids. Some time passes and the chest pain persists. Doctors still have not...
Have you ever called a customer service number trying to find out the answer to a question only to be transferred to ten different departments and spending 2 hours on what was supposed to be a 5 minute phone call? Well, this process may become the norm for patients...
Medical providers in central Ohio are experimenting with a new method in an effort to make "going to the doctor" a little bit easier. On November 2, 2015, OhioHealth will have some of their doctors begin seeing patients for primary care visits via video and online...
If you are going in for surgery, you probably have a lot on your mind. The questions come in bunches: Will the operation be successful? Will insurance pick up the bulk of the cost? How long will the recovery period be? And so on. It's good to know that many hospitals...
Have you ever taken the time to actually read your Verizon or Time Warner Cable contracts? Or did you, like millions of other Americans, simply sign the agreement trying to get out of the store as quickly as possible? You might be surprised how one-sided it actually...
The statute of limitations for medical claims can differ greatly depending on the injury. One such injury that demonstrates this difference is one arising from foreign objects being left inside a person's body. A foreign object could be almost anything, such as a...
A patient in Virginia found that he had a very good reason to file a medical malpractice lawsuit when he played back a recording that took place during his colonoscopy. He had turned on the recording device while being given instructions, so he wouldn't forget them....
Many years ago, in 2000, the National Institute of Medicine performed a study evaluating the frequency and nature of errors in patient care. The results were astounding: an estimated 98,000 patients died annually as a result of preventable medical mistakes. Hundreds...
Even when medical malpractice occurs and causes serious injury and death, a lawsuit rarely follows. When a lawsuit is filed, that generally results in an out of court settlement, or a jury trial if the case goes all the way to court. However, there's an alternative...
By: Gerald S. Leeseberg, Esq. One of the most fascinating, and tragic, cases I have ever worked on [Legge vs. Leess] involved the deaths of twin three year olds at home the evening following tonsillectomies/adenoidectomies for sleep APNEA, done as outpatient surgery....
