Medical Malpractice

• Costs Up, Access Down, Medical Errors Unabated. Should TX Really Be Our Health Care Model?

  Alex Winslow | October 06, 2009 12:14 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Health care reform has been dominating the headlines for months now. The special interests headed by the insurance industry are doing everything they can to take advantage of the confusion on...

• Texas' Medical Malpractice Reforms Are Discriminating

  Brooks Schuelke | April 15, 2009 10:14 AM | 1 CommentAustin, TX

  In 2003, our medical malpractice reforms capped the amount of non-economic damages that plaintiffs could recover. There were predictions that the cap would be unfair, and there have been anecdotal...

• Texas Hospital Files Suit Against Critical Blogger

  Brooks Schuelke | September 20, 2007 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  It's not really medical malpractice news, but a Texas hospital, the Paris Regional Medical Center, has filed suit against an anonymous blogger who has been critical of the hospital's practices, including claims that the hospital "values the individual staff member or patient less than the buck" (an allegation that some personal injury lawyers think might be applicable to more hospitals than just...

• Another Week and Another Article About Texas' Medical Malpractice Caps Not Working

  Brooks Schuelke | April 21, 2009 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  Last week, I wrote about a study that found that Texas' medical malpractice caps discriminate against the retired and the unemployed. Today, the Dallas Morning News had an article looking at another...

• Dennis and Kimberly Quaid Settle With Cedars-Sinai

  Brooks Schuelke | December 16, 2008 11:13 AM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  As most of you will recall, Dennis and Kimberly Quaid almost experienced every parent's worst nightmare when their twins were delivered too much Heparin at Cedars-Sinai hospital in November 2007....

• 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,...

• Wrong Site Surgery: Is the Standard of Care Enough?

  Brooks Schuelke | August 26, 2008 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  We have devoted the month of August to Wrong Site Surgeries. Our series started out by looking at the Universal Protocol, the standard of care on how to avoid wrong site surgeries. The standard was...

• 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...

• 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,...

• Doctors Billing For Medical Malpractice

  Brooks Schuelke | March 02, 2008 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsAustin, TX

  There has been a bit of a debate recently about doctors and hospitals billing for services when they commit medical malpractice. Indeed, since last fall, hospitals in 10 states have agreed to waive fees for certain errors called "never events" because experts say they should never happen. But MSNBC has a new story about a medical malpractice charge that may take the cake. As the story...