You may have read our previous coverage regarding the aspergillus infections acquired at Seattle Children’s Hospital. You may have also seen Tyler Goldberg-Hoss’s interviews related
Studies show that one in four adults who have community-acquired pneumonia receive appropriate standard antibiotics but do not respond to the treatment.
A recent article in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections reports on new technology developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health to deal with drug-resistant infections.
A 2014 Washington Supreme Court case held that different health care providers, who are part of a “team” of hospital employees, can be collectively liable for a patient’s injuries.
Sepsis is a potentially catastrophic disease that can kill or maim even with appropriate care. However, health care providers may be liable if they had sufficient chance to find and treat the source of the infection, while also treating the patient’s symptoms, and failed to do so.
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.
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT or clots) is a common problem occurring after certain kinds of surgeries. This article analyzes claims based on deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary emboli (resulting from the clots), including the type of claim that may arise, how to determine negligence, what kinds of experts are needed, and damages that may occur in such cases.
Strategies for finding, disclosing, and using expert witnesses in the discovery phase of complex litigation are outlined. There may be some changes in the law since this article was published in 1994.
