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A jury has awarded a former Eastern Kentucky hospital employee $2.4 million in damages after she alleged that medical center administrators directed her to convince patients to have themselves ...
The lawsuit conjectures that inadequate hospital staffing contributed to Hoppes' death. More: Mission Hospital doctors oppose silencing governing documents in nail-biting vote
Another study notes that about 1.14 million patient-safety incidents occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations in the Medicare population over the years 2000–2002. Hospital costs associated with such medical errors were estimated at $324 million in October 2008 alone. Approximately 17,000 malpractice cases are filed in the U.S. each year.
1960. Dusky v. United States. Affirming a criminal defendant's constitutional right to have a competency evaluation before proceeding to trial, and setting the standard for determination of such competence. BOR, 14th. 1966. Pate v. Robinson. A hearing about competency to stand trial is required under the due process clause of the Constitution ...
Christopher Daniel Duntsch (born April 3, 1971) [1] is a former American neurosurgeon who has been nicknamed Dr. D. and Dr. Death [2] for multiple incidents of gross malpractice while working at hospitals in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, resulting in the maiming of many patients and two deaths. [3] He was accused of injuring 33 out of 38 ...
An estimated 1.7 million former Lexington Medical Center patients and employees may have had their personal information stolen by hackers, a lawsuit filed in South Carolina federal court says.
Psychosurgery. 1880s. Psychosurgery (also called neurosurgery for mental disorder) has a long history. During the 1960s and 1970s, it became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings. Particularly controversial was the work of Harvard neurosurgeon Vernon Mark and psychiatrist Frank ...
According to the lawsuit, filed Wednesday, Dr. Jay Lick performed a hysterectomy on the patient when she was 19, and Dr. Katherine Gast performed a double mastectomy on the patient when she was 21.
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