Medical Malpractice Law Articles

In 2003, Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, which established the rights a patient has to their Protected Health Information (PHI), or medical records. In accordance with this act, you hold the right to request a copy of your medical records from your personal healthcare provider. Looking over a copy of your medical records could help you and your doctor to have a mutual understanding of your medical history, thereby reducing the chance of any potential medical mistakes.

While we think the following article, written by Tom McGrath, can be seen as an example of sensationalist journalism, the story offers an interesting perspective on the issue of drug abuse in the medical field. The article exposes a handful of cases of medical health professionals caught abusing such pain-relief medication as Hydrocodone and Fentanyl. Upon these revelations, McGrath explores the potential need for random drug testing for doctors, dentists, nurses and surgical technicians.

In a recent article, run in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Taking Medical Jargon Out of Doctors’ Visits,” writer Laura Landro investigates the relationship between some medical patient’s decline in health and his or her inability to comprehend certain medical terminology. In line with this premise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that “Nearly nine out of ten adults have difficulty following routine medical advice, largely because it’s often incomprehensible to average people.”

All over the internet, Yaz birth control complaints have been popping up on woman’s health boards, forums, and other social sites.  These range from rapid weight gain, vision problems, vulvodynia, worsening PMS symptoms, irregular bleeding, nausea, heart attacks, strokes, heart palpitations, headaches, back pain, chest pain, depression, and fatigue.
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There has been a recent surge in the media regarding cases of over-radiation all over the country, including here in Pennsylvania. Radiation over-exposure can occur for an array of reasons, including computer errors, errors in calculating doses and the radiating of incorrect body parts.

The use of radiation therapy for cancer treatment is designed to kill cancer cells and stop the cancer from spreading. It is a specific and exact therapy where an external beam is directed to the site of the cancer by a machine called a linear accelerator. The beam is precise in terms of the amount of …

The FDA announced on March 19, 2010, that their studies show the risk of rhabdomyolysis is 50 times greater with 80 mg dose of Zocor than with 20 mg dose of the same drug. Consumers taking the 80 mg dose who develop rhabdomyolysis may have viable cases against the manufacturer for failure to warn of …

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice case is proven by showing sufficient evidence of the following: (1) Liability, (2) Causation, and (3) Damages.

Liability means we must be able to prove “with a reasonable degree of medical certainty” the doctor or hospital or other medical professional who treated you ”departed from what is accepted medical care.”  It means …

Pennsylvania medical malpractice litigation has decreased in recent years as confirmed by State studies.