Medication errors hurt and kill many people every year. The Institute of Medicine reports that there are 1,500,000 preventable adverse drug events per year. The conservative estimate of the costs of these errors is $3.5 billion, not including the costs such as lost earnings and the pain and suffering…
Hospitalists are a relatively new phenomenon in the medical field and it logically follows that from time to time these doctors will be subject to medical malpractice lawsuits. As doctors who care for patients in the hospital, the growth of hospitalists is the recognition that patient outcomes will be…
Almost every day in Tennessee a child is born that suffered a brain injury during childbirth. Brain injuries can arise for many reasons, some of which can be prevented with prompt medical diagnosis and treatment and some of which cannot. If you have a child you have suffered a brain…
Under Tennessee law, the parents of a child born with cerebral palsy or other birth injury have one year from the date of birth of the child to take appropriate legal action against the responsible parties to seek recovery for medical expenses and loss of services arising from the injury…
Wrong-site surgeries happen with alarming frequency. Wrong-site mistakes can arise several ways, such as mixing up the left and right sides of the body; operating on a patient who was accidentally given test results belonging to someone else; marking the incorrect vertebrae in spinal surgery; neglecting to mark the…
I was given a prescription for a drug and took the prescription to my regular pharmacist. I picked up the prescription the next day and started to take the medication as ordered. Two days later I was deathly sick and in the hospital. It turns out I was not given…
Medical malpractice insurance rates for doctors have dropped substantially in Tennessee in the last few years, and now doctors pay far less for insurance that they did five years ago. For example, 5 years ago an OB/GYN paid $59,572 for $1,000,000 / $3,000,000 in professional liability insurance. Today, that same doctor…
I believe that my father victim of malpractice by a nursing home, but no lawyer will take my case. Why not? There are several possibilities. First, there are relatively few lawyers in the state that represent medical malpractice victims. In fact, my guess is that far less than one percent…
The Tennessee Department of Health has posted on its website thousands of pages of inspection reports on Tennessee nursing homes. The Affordable Care Act passed under President Obama required that the reports be more accessible to consumers. The new postings include one year of reports for each licensed facility. Eventually, four…
I believe that I was a victim of medical malpractice while I was a patient at the VA hospital in Nashville. How much time do I have to file a medical malpractice claim against the VA? You may have a claim under a law known as the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA").…