Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Thorny Issues a Daily Staple in Nevada Medical Malpractice Cases

  Steve Klearman | January 16, 2008 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Any attorney who works in medical malpractice law in Nevada (and there are fewer and fewer of us) knows that difficult issues arise every week.Many of these issues are presented by people who are searching for attorneys.A common issue, after the unfortunate passage of the so-called KODIN legislation, is whether the statute of limitations has run in a particular medical malpractice case.We often...

• Response Time in Cardiac Cases Slow

  Steve Klearman | January 09, 2008 7:18 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a New York Times article dated January 3, 2008, in one out of three cases of cardiac arrests in hospitals, the staff takes too long to respond and increases the risk of brain damage and death in the patient. This study was based on 6,789 patients in 369 different hospitals whose hearts stopped but could have been resuscitated with an electric shock. The study concludes that these...

• Woman Dies in Dentist Chair

  Steve Klearman | January 02, 2008 7:11 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Last week Georgette Watson, principal of Brentano Math and Science Academy in Chicago, died while undergoing a root canal in her dentist's chair. It wasn't the physical surgery that killed her, however. The blame is being placed upon her anesthesia, which put her in a state between unconsciousness and being awake, a state known as "twilight sedation." In this condition patients are typically...

• Nevada Medical Board a Subject of Scrutiny

  Steve Klearman | December 29, 2007 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As reported yesterday, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners disciplined a record number of doctors at its last meeting.The Board has come under scrutiny in recent years for a variety of practices. In fact, according to a Reno Gazette Journal article dated December 12, 2007, our Nevada Board is one of the worst in the United States for disciplining doctors. A Reno Gazette Journal inquiry...

• Nevada Doctors Disciplined by Board

  Steve Klearman | December 28, 2007 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In the most recent Nevada Board of State Medical Examiners meeting, seven medical doctors and one physician's assistant were disciplined. The Reno Gazette reports that this is the largest number of disciplinary actions at one meeting in several years.Professionals disciplined include: Gregory Bryan, M.D., Michael Sullivan, P.A., Gilles Desmaires, M.D., David Linden, M.D., Stuart Steel, M.D.,...

• Deleted Emails and Production

  Steve Klearman | December 26, 2007 10:12 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Ah the new and complicated world of how email production is handled by courts.Scott Roseland, at cybercontrols (www.cybercontrols.net), cites to Benton v. Dlorah, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. D. Kan, Oct. 30, 2007. There, the plaintiff informed defendant at her deposition that she had deleted e-mails, and defendant filed a motion to compel plaintiff to produce relevant documents, to produce her hard...

• Top 10 Questions to Ask Your Nevada Doctor

  Steve Klearman | December 18, 2007 7:17 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Here is a list of ten questions from MSN, commented on by John S. Ford, MD, MPH in his California Medicine Man blog dated December 13, 2007 1) Do I really need this test? Great question but the author is preaching not to the choir, but to the tree stump. It's pretty well documented that as far as the patient is concerned: "Nothing is too good for my health...as long as someone else is footing...

• Obesity Alters Immunity

  Steve Klearman | December 17, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Obesity makes it harder for some people to fight infections and heal wounds, according to a Yahoo! News Article dated December 12, 2007. This may be due to the tendency of obese people to have weakened immune responses.In a Boston University Research study, researchers tied silk threads laced with gum disease to the teeth of obese mice and mice of regular weight to compare the animals' response...

• More on Nevada's Mental Health Funding Problems

  Steve Klearman | December 12, 2007 9:36 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a Reno Gazette Journal Article dated November 30, 2007, the new Reno triage center may have its budget cut after Governor Jim Gibbons ordered state agencies to submit lists for an 8% budget cut this month. This cut was an increase from an original 5% cut due to declining sales and gaming tax revenues.The triage center is a center to help homeless people with mental health or...

• Crucial Medical Tests Delayed

  Steve Klearman | December 11, 2007 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Thousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive substance used in those examinations -- all because of the shutdown of one nuclear reactor in Canada. According to Associated Press writers Charmaine Noronha and Stephanie Nano, the substance is used in at least 15 million medical scans a year in the United States, by one estimate. Those scans...