Medical Malpractice

• Standard of Care For Avoidance of Wrong Site, Wrong Side, Wrong Patient, Wrong Procedure Problems, Part 1

  Brooks Schuelke | August 12, 2008 10:14 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This is the second part of our series on wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure surgeries. Today we're looking at the history of the standard of care and the first element that each...

• Wrong Site, Wrong Side, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Patient

  Brooks Schuelke | August 04, 2008 3:27 PM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  Perhaps there is no act of medical malpractice that makes as little sense as those when the doctor performs a procedure on the wrong site or the wrong side of the body, performs the wrong procedure,...

• Texas's Medical Malpractice Reforms Aren't Working

  Brooks Schuelke | May 16, 2008 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  According to an investigation done by the Dallas/Fort Worth Fox television station affiliate, the medical malpractice reforms enacted five years ago aren't bringing the promised benefits. The...

• Medical Malpractice: The Equivalent of a Full 747 Crashing Every Day

  Brooks Schuelke | May 15, 2008 12:35 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  This week, movie star (and part-time Austin resident) Dennis Quaid spent a considerable amount of time speaking to Congress about preemption. Quaid told Congress the oft-repeated story of his twins,...

• Medical Malpractice Transparency

  Brooks Schuelke | May 07, 2008 8:08 AM | 2 CommentsAustin, TX

  I saw a story that the North Carolina Medical Board is considering making medical malpractice data available to consumers. The board would publish the doctor's name, the settlement amount, and an...

• A New Twist on Medical Malpractice News

  Brooks Schuelke | May 06, 2008 11:23 AM | 2 CommentsAustin, TX

  Last night, I was watching the local news, and they ran a story about medical tourism. The premise of the story was that more and more Americans are traveling overseas to have medical procedures...

• Tort Reform Not Working In Ohio

  Brooks Schuelke | March 29, 2008 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  One of the benefits of tort "reform", according to its supporters, is that reform is supposed to increase access to care by making more physicians available. But in Ohio, the data is now in. Five years after the state enacted medical malpractice caps, there are fewer doctors delivering babies. Recent data also questions the claim that tort reform was necessary due to rising insurance rates. ...

• Many Doctors Requiring Arbitration Agreements

  Brooks Schuelke | March 28, 2008 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  In a disturbing new trend, many doctors and other medical groups are requiring patients to enter into arbitration agreements prior to the doctors providing medical care. There are many problems with pre-dispute arbitration agreements, and the biggest in my mind is that the patient is giving up rights without the benefit of counsel. Most people don't know that arbitration can be as expensive...

• It's Bigger Than AIDS; It's Bigger Than Breast Cancer; It's Bigger Than Auto Accidents

  Brooks Schuelke | March 19, 2008 8:17 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  "It's bigger than AIDS. It's bigger than breast cancer. It's bigger than auto accidents. And yet no one seems to really be aware of the problem."That's a quote from Dennis Quaid talking about medical errors. Over 100,000 people a year are killed by medical errors, but the public doesn't seem to know about the problem. Though his twins are doing fine after their well publicized experience...

• John Ritter Medical Malpractice Case Comes to An End

  Brooks Schuelke | March 17, 2008 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  We had previously posted about the medical malpractice case filed by John Ritter's widow. After a long and grueling trial, the case came to a close last Friday when the jury found that the two remaining doctors had not committed medical malpractice in providing treatment to the actor. Prior to this trial, the hospital and other entities had entered settlements with the family.The case can be...