The Florida Board of Medicine has fined a Broward County, Fla., surgeon $5,000 for removing a healthy kidney from an 83-year-old patient instead of taking out his gallbladder, the Miami Herald reported.

The physician owner of a Las Vegas area endoscopy clinic and two nurse anesthetists were indicted on 28 felony counts stemming from a 2008 hepatitis outbreak caused by the reuse of syringes and endoscopy scopes.

The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) released its 2010 Physician Practice Environment Index, and the outlook was not good.

Physicians at a New York hospital have been found not liable for the death of a 37-year old man who died from cancer and receiving a kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer.

Two changes to the medical malpractice laws in 2003 have had a major impact on how many lawsuits are initiated in Pennsylvania and where they are filed, according to an article in The Daily Item newspaper in Sunbury, Pa.

Nurses who are interrupted are more likely to make procedural and clinical errors, according to a new study published in Archives of Internal Medicine (2010;170:63-690).

Maine's Board of Licensure in Medicine has reported a dramatic increase in complaints—up 50% over the past 10 years.

In a surprising twist in a major medical malpractice case in New York, a nurse was found not liable a week following her decision to settle the case for $1 million.

An apology or explanation can be priceless to the loved one of someone who died during surgery, but many physicians are afraid that any condolences or expressions of sympathy or regret will end up being costly to them in the event of a malpractice lawsuit.

According to the watchdog group Public Citizen, medical malpractice litigation costs have been steadily declining and are "playing an ever smaller role in health care costs."