What constitutes medical error? According to a 2005 study, despite a lot of research in the area of error in medicine, “few studies have defined or measured ‘medical error’ directly.” Yet properly defining the term is important if hospitals are to improve and commit fewer…
Many women have suffered late-stage, aggressive cancers as a result of power morcellation, and now two senators want to do something about it. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, New York Democrats Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand recently wrote a letter to…
A New York man was recently awarded $2.3 million in his medical malpractice lawsuit. According to The Journal News, a Rockland County jury found the doctor in the case negligent for failing to properly treat a serious infection. A 2011 study published in the Journal…
Partners Eric Chaffin and Roopal Luhana have been selected as New York Metro Super Lawyers for 2014. This is the fifth year in a row that Mr. Chaffin has received this honor. Partner Roopal Luhana was named a New York Metro Super Lawyer in 2013,…
Like most women, 67-year-old Anita Austin had two choices as to how doctors would remove her problematic uterine fibroids. One was to go through traditional surgery, which would require a large abdominal incision. The other was to go through a laparoscopic procedure that used much…
On April 1, 2013, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federal Tylenol lawsuits into one court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The panel ruled that all cases shared common matters of fact, and that handling them together would be more…
On August 24, 2014 the American Heart Association (AHA) released a statement outlining the agency’s position on e-cigarettes. It supports any regulations or laws that “prohibit the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to youth.” It recognizes how popular the product has become to the nation’s…
In the midst of the debate about the safety of power morcellators in uterine fibroid surgery, some doctors and hospitals are choosing to take a stand even before the FDA takes any further action. According to Pittsburgh Business Times, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center…
The concern about power morcellators continues to grow. Morcellators are surgical tools that cut up large tissues for removal through small incisions. They have been used since the early 1990s in minimally invasive uterine fibroid and hysterectomy procedures. Recent studies, however, have indicated
Patients diagnosed with septic shock are seriously ill. Without immediate and effective treatment, they can easily succumb to organ failure and death. This was Connecticut resident Vivian Gagliano’s diagnosis in 2008, after she went through what was supposed to be a routine hernia operation. The…
Women who have trouble with uterine fibroids often need to have them surgically removed. New laparoscopic techniques have made it possible to perform the surgery through very small incisions, allowing for less blood loss, less scarring, and a faster recovery. This surgery requires the use…
You start feeling sick and the symptoms aren’t improving so you go to your doctor. Your doctor hands you a prescription for an antibiotic and you promptly get it filled at your local pharmacy so you can start taking it immediately. Do you check the…