The Illinois medical licensing board filed a request to revoke the license of a Chicago physician accused of leaving patients with deformed penises, according to a report by United Press International (UPI).
While coverage of wrong-side, wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient surgery occasionally appears in the lay press, it has been virtually nonexistent in the medical literature.
A jury in Staten Island, N.Y., awarded $3.9 million to a man who experienced complications following vascular surgery.
Medical errors caused by missed and delayed diagnoses in the outpatient setting result in significant harm to patients, according to a recent review of medical malpractice claims.
Under a new Florida Medical Association (FMA) program, physicians may start asking patients to sign documents limiting the amount of money they could seek in malpractice lawsuits.
A jury has awarded a southern California man $3.4 million in a case involving a doctor who failed to diagnose his bladder cancer in a timely manner, according to the Orange County Register.
A new study points to a promising technology for detecting gauze sponges left inside a surgical patient. Nearly two thirds of the approximately 3,000 annual cases of surgical items left behind involve sponges, which do not show up on post-op x-rays.
