Medical Negligence Section Update
Summer is wrapping up and we’ve started pulling together great programing and useful publications for our Medical Negligence Section for the 2014-15 term. We welcome your input and suggestions. Here are just a few of our goals for the year: WSAJ Medical Negligence DeskbookAfter years of consideration, we are finally working toward the first-ever WSAJ […]
Spinal epidural abscess cases
Medical-Legal issues related to delays in diagnosing and treating spinal epidural abscesses
Evaluating DVT Cases: Using a Risk Assessment Model
If you handle medical negligence cases, you have probably received calls concerning a death after a doctor failed to provide a spouse or loved one with DVT prophylaxis and the patient died from a PE. Every year, approximately 600,000 people are hospitalized in the United States for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and its primary complication, […]
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.