Our top medical malpractice attorneys have often spoken out against so-called “tort reform.” These “reforms” generally have little to no impact on the costs of medical care or medical malpractice insurance premiums, while simultaneously taking away the rights and remedies of the victims of medical malpractice. We are fiercely opposed to proposals where, in the… Read More
Study Finds Chicago Hospitals Fall Short on Basic Safety
Medical errors occur all too often — and with devastating consequences for patients and their families. Indeed, as recently reported by the Chicago Tribune, if the current national rates of medical malpractice apply here in Chicago, then every day in Chicago-area hospitals medical errors claim the lives of ten patients and injure one hundred others…. Read More
Misinformation Key to Tort Reformers
Our medical malpractice attorneys in Chicago have often written about the falsehoods and misinformation behind the movement for so-called “tort reform.” One area of misinformation has gotten some play recently: the idea of “defensive medicine.” Defensive medicine is a term coined by proponents of “tort reform” to describe the supposed overuse of unnecessary or unjustified… Read More
Contaminated IV Bags Lead to Deaths
In the latest hospital safety scare, citizens across the United States were shocked to learn that patients in Alabama were infected with toxic bacteria through intravenous feeding bags designed to administer much-needed nutritional supplements to critically ill patients. While our Chicago medical malpractice attorneys were outraged at this news, we are encouraged at the hospital… Read More
A Breast Cancer Care Revolution
As breast cancer research continues to advance, so too does our understanding of which treatments are more effective, and best suited to eliminating breast cancer quickly and with as little pain as possible. Now, a new study has turned one of the foundations of breast cancer care on its head, by suggesting that the invasive… Read More
The Dangers of Epidurals
Epidural injections are a form of anesthesia administered via a needle or tube into the spinal column. When an epidural is given, the anesthesiologist (or other doctor — sometimes an orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon) inserts a needle which punctures the spinal column, then enters what is known as the “epidural space.” In short, the needle… Read More
The Fraud of “Defensive Medicine”
For years, decades even, the American public has heard the relentless chorus from the advocates of so-called “tort reform” — namely, from the insurance lobby and American Medical Association — that such reform (damage caps, health courts, etc.) is necessary due to the widespread practice of “defensive medicine.” Our medical malpractice attorneys would like to… Read More
Sleep Deprived Surgeons
In what may come as surprise to those outside the medical community, the newest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine published a piece by three physicians arguing that surgeons who are on call all night, and thus receive fewer than six hours of sleep, should either be barred from the operating room or,… Read More
Unsupervised Hospital Residents a Safety Threat
Our top Chicago medical malpractice attorneys have long been concerned by the use of unsupervised residents to provide patient care at hospitals. Now, several recent studies and reports have confirmed that the stories of patient harm from these dangerous practices at teaching hospitals are not merely anecdotal, but represent a nationwide, industry-wide problem that must… Read More
Competing Bills on Physician Sexual Abuse
Our top Chicago medical malpractice attorneys have recently written on the problem of physician sexual abuse in Illinois. As the law presently stands, physicians in our state who are convicted of sexual abuse of patients are not subject to any automatic discipline by the state government – indeed, they do not even automatically have their… Read More
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