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The family of a young Navy nurse who died after military doctors allegedly failed to halt massive bleeding following childbirth won’t get a hearing in ...
Read More »Supreme Court Declines To Hear Military Medical Malpractice Case
A brief history of medical malpractice
By Naomi Anderson The history of medical malpractice and its relation to the law is a lengthy one, spanning back thousands of years. Doctors and ...
Read More »Informed Consent: What Every Pennsylvania Physician Needs to Know
Informed consent is an important part of the patient-physician relationship and has implications for other theories of medical malpractice. The principle of “informed consent” has ...
Read More »How Can Concierge Doctors Protect Themselves Against Demanding Patients?
Concierge medicine and medical malpractice: the two phrases don’t even seem to belong together in the same sentence. Concierge medicine — the “refuge” of private ...
Read More »MDVIP Becomes First Concierge Medicine Practice to Lose Medical Malpractice Case
MDVIP, the nation’s largest concierge medicine practice, has seen meteoric growth since it was founded fifteen years ago promising “exceptional care” and quick access to ...
Read More »Fewer Malpractice Claims Paid in the United States
By Robert Preidt (HealthDay News) — The number of medical malpractice payments in the United States has dropped sharply since 2002, according to a new study. ...
Read More »Limiting Malpractice Claims May Not Curb Costly Medical Tests
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malpractice reform may not keep physicians from ordering unnecessary and expensive tests, a practice known ...
Read More »California May Be First To Require Doctors To Take Drug, Alcohol Tests
By Michael R. Blood ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Voters could make California the first state to require many doctors to submit to random ...
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