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Sustaining a Brain Injury at Birth

Brain injuries are very rare at the time of the birth, they mainly develop due to medical malpractice in a majority of cases. They are often very serious and life threatening and influence the normal development and growth process.

Shaken baby syndrome symptoms

Most New York parents are told about shaken baby syndrome when they begin to have children. Shaken baby syndrome occurs when a parent or caregiver essentially shakes the baby’s brain, causing an injury that could lead to death or serious injuries.

Failure to diagnose breast cancer can lead to worsened condition

When New York residents go to their doctors with concerns about the possibility of having breast cancer, being told that there is a clean bill of health is a relief. There are, however, times when the doctor makes a mistake and there is a failure to diagnose the disease. With cancer so prominent a problem, significant attention is dedicated to its treatment and trying to find a cure. Given the risks inherent with the disease, a failure to diagnose and delayed treatment might place the patient in a worsened condition.

Courts rule on uninsured physicians

New York patients may want to pay heed to a New Jersey Supreme Court case involving a physician who had no medical malpractice insurance. On Sept. 29, a 5-2 split decision decreed that practitioners lacking malpractice insurance to any degree are not to be disciplined by the courts, but by the state’s medical board instead. However, if the medical facility employing the insured physician failed to conduct an appropriate amount of due diligence before making the hire, it may be held liable.

Retained Surgical Instruments (RSI) and Medical Malpractice

A common medical malpractice in the surgical field involved retained surgical instruments in the patient’s body after surgery. This act of negligence can result in critical complications for the patient, causing severe pain, infection, and/or death.