Hindsight Bias in Radiology "Miss" Cases: A Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card for Negligent Radiologists?
In a case where a radiologist is alleged to have missed a finding on film, hindsight bias could affect everyone involved – the attorneys, the experts, the jury, even the judge.
Why We Do The Work
Pat Greenstreet discusses a case that vividly demonstrates why CMG focuses on medical negligence cases. Pat describes how medical mistakes resulted in a baby suffering a profound brain injury due to prolonged labor. It is challenging and heartbreaking cases like Anthony’s that keep CMG working toward being “a trusted voice for victims of negligence.”
Tele-ICUs: The Future of Medicine is Here (Actually Somewhere Else)
The use of telemedicine in the intensive care setting is a relatively new phenomenon and rare in our state. However, as our population ages, the burdens on our ICUs will go up, and if there is not a corresponding increase in critical care and intensivist physicians to meet this need, we may be seeing more such systems in place.
Chemnick | Moen | Greenstreet – 30 Years and Going Strong
Every day around 11:30, you will hear Gene Moen jingle the change in his pocket as he walks down the hall. It’s lunch time, and barring trial or deposition, it’s the signal for the three partners to go to lunch. Yes, every day. They discuss cases, of course, and brainstorm, and strategize and pick them apart and put them back together again. But they also talk about personal challenges, family matters, sometimes sports, and always politics.
Do Your Own Focus Groups!
Focus groups, or Jury Research Projects, as David Ball calls them, are a useful tool in trying to figure out what potential jurors might think about your case or elements of it. However, there are times when the economics of a case don’t justify hiring a professional. In such situations, it may be useful to use a more cost-effective method for determining elusive juror attitudes, like running your own focus group. You can do it.
Delay in diagnosing and treating compartment syndromes
If you handle personal injury or medical negligence cases, you have probably encountered a condition called “compartment syndrome (CS).”
Presenting the living wrongful death plaintiff
It’s a situation not uncommon in medical malpractice: a delay in diagnosing cancer. Often the damages are significant because when the cancer is finally detected, it has spread and the prognosis is not good: more likely than not your client will die as a result.
Hiring a Work-Study Student is Like Buying a Home: This Is a Really Good Time to Do It
If you are an established lawyer and Washington State Association for Justice member, you may recall hearing an appeal to hire a work-study intern before. Yet now is arguably THE best time for all parties involved because of the state of the economy. The state budget crisis has meant cuts everywhere, including the work-study program. Still, if you hire an intern today you will likely be reimbursed 50 percent of the salary you pay him or her. You pay her $15, you get $7.50 of that back. That’s less than the
Hospitalists: Better care or more potential liability?
For many decades a hospital was primarily a physical facility to which doctors would admit patients for care or surgery. The admitting doctor – whether primary care doctor or surgeon — would then be in charge of the patient’s care while in the hospital, doing rounds on the patient, ordering medications and tests, and responding to nurses when called. It was a fairly simple model. Well, it’s not your father’s hospital any more.
The Truth About Medical Negligence Claims
Deaths and serious injuries resulting from preventable medical errors are a major problem in this country. Independent studies estimate 90,000 people die each year in hospitals alone because of such medical errors. This toll in human loss is the equivalent of 600 airplanes, with 150 passengers each, crashing every year. If only a fraction of such crashes occurred, it would be treated as a major national tragedy leading to a huge public effort to prevent such human losses in the future.
