Torts, not tortes by TailslandComedian Hyper HD or St. Rihanna https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq Adventures in Medical Torts en-us 2017-02-27 00:19:36 UTC 2017-02-27 00:56:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Malpractice aidanburnish https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156289703 In 2001, USA Today reported one of the more well known cases of medical malpractice happened to comedian Dana Carvey. About two months after the double bypass operation that was suppose to preserve his life, Mr. Carvey discovered that the surgeon had bypassed one of the wrong arteries. The surgeon that performed the surgery stated that it was an honest mistake that occurred due to the unusual positioning of Mr. Carvey's artery in his heart. Dana Carvey felt differently, and filed a $7.5 million lawsuit against the surgeon and the hospital.]]> 2017-02-27 00:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156289703 Assault and Battery aidanburnish https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156289980 A hospital in South Miami performed a procedure without parents' consent to a baby. The eight-day old baby had a circumcision while the mother was away from the hospital without getting her consent to do so. She returned to the hospital, very surprised, and in the following days, contacted an attorney that filed a medical assault and battery suit. (2010, Village Voice)]]> 2017-02-27 00:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156289980 Invasion of Privacy aidanburnish https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156290272 Examples of medical invasion of privacy:


  • A Michigan-based health system accidentally posted the medical records of thousands of patients on the Internet (The Ann Arbor News, February 10, 1999).
  • A Utah-based pharmaceutical benefits management firm used patient data to solicit business for its owner, a drug store (Kiplingers, February 2000).
  • An employee of the Tampa, Florida, health department took a computer disk containing the names of 4,000 people who had tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (USA Today, October 10, 1996).
  • The health insurance claims forms of thousands of patients blew out of a truck on its way to a recycling center in East Hartford, Connecticut (The Hartford Courant, May 14, 1999).
  • A patient in a Boston-area hospital discovered that her medical record had been read by more than 200 of the hospital's employees (The Boston Globe, August 1, 2000).
  • http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/compliance/guidance/privacy/example.html
]]> 2017-02-27 00:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156290272 Medical Negligence aidanburnish https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156290756 It is commonly attributed to an error  by a healthcare provider or a lack of diagnosis or care to a patient.

Examples include:

Anethesia overdose

Medication error

A childbirth injury to the child

Misdiagnosis that leads to lack of appropriate treatment]]> 2017-02-27 00:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156290756 Medical defamation aidanburnish https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156291781 Surgeon pays $800,000, settles slander case...

Las Vegas surgeon Mark Kabins, who recently was convicted of a felony in federal court, has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a slander lawsuit filed against him by an anesthesiologist.

"There were absolutely no admissions made as part of the settlement, and it was another vehicle to give Dr. Kabins closure," said attorney David Chesnoff, who represents the surgeon.


Chesnoff also said federal prosecutors requested, as part of Kabins' plea agreement in the criminal case, that he also settle the civil case.

Dr. Daniel Burkhead filed the lawsuit against Kabins and others with ties to a federal fraud case. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of making "false and defamatory statements concerning Burkhead's ability to competently practice medicine."

 
"If Burkhead continues to lose patients and referrals due to defendants' false and defamatory statements, his right to practice medicine and his medical practice will be destroyed," the document alleges.

Attorney Brooke Bohlke, who represents Burkhead, said other parties had until Thursday to object to the settlement but did not do so. She said the lawsuit is proceeding against another surgeon, John Thalgott; a former medical consultant, Howard Awand; and a medical expert from Louisiana, Charlie Aprill.

The allegations in both the civil and criminal cases stem from the treatment of Melodie Simon, who became a para­plegic after Kabins and Thalgott performed spine surgery on her in August 2000.

You can read the rest here....http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/surgeon-pays-800000-settles-slander-case


]]> 2017-02-27 00:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156291781 False Imprisonment aidanburnish https://padlet.com/aidanburnish/s7vfue8rvyzq/wish/156291981 Being held against your consent in a location or being restrained without cause is false imprisonment.     

Examples include:

-A hospital not honoring a patient's request to change facilities

-Being overmedicated to dull or sedate a patient's behavior

-Being restrained to receive a procedure that was not consented to.


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