Defendants nearly always require confidentiality when settling claims. While it benefits them, it most often does not benefit the safety of all patients.
Half of all injuries suffered by patients is preventable. Of those injuries, 12% are considered severe.
A recent study found there was no significant difference in outcomes between doctors trained under 100 hour work week conditions and those working fewer hours.
Recently an intrepid New York Times journalist compelled the North Carolina Children’s Hospital to release mortality data. This led to changes and improvements in patient safety.
An article published recently in The Journal of the American Medical Association (“JAMA”) Surgery finds a correlation between surgeons’ (un)professional behavior and surgical complications.
A recent article found that there are currently 400 instances in medicine where new literature has shown that current medical practice doesn’t work, or worse.
After years of attempting to fix Washington State’s racist and unfair wrongful death law, the association of attorneys who represent victims, along with other interested parties, successfully passed changes which recently became law.
Because health care in the US is provided to its citizens in a business model, sometimes the motivations of hospitals and surgeons is not entirely on patient care and safety.
One sobering statistic related to America’s Abysmal Maternal Mortality Rates: 60% of those deaths were preventable.
After years of litigation, and over a hundred thousand injured people, the FDA has finally halted the sales of surgical pelvic mesh.
