Medical Malpractice: Verdicts, Settlements, and Experts
On November 14, 2016, the plaintiff presented to the defendant's office for her annual health review. The defendant wrote the plaintiff a ninety-day prescription for Buproprion XL, with three, three-hundred milligram tablets to be taken once a day for a total of nine hundred milligrams a day. The new prescription doubled the plaintiff's intake of Buproprian XL: she had been taking three, one one hundred-fifty milligram tablets daily. The plaintiff continued with the new dosag
Medical Malpractice: Verdicts, Settlements, and Experts
On March 23, 2017, Decedent presented to Undisclosed Hospital for total left knee replacement surgery. The surgery went well and Decedent began recovery in stable condition. Decedent started physical therapy before being discharged from the hospital. On March 26, 2017, Undisclosed Hospital employees failed to monitor Decedent and he fell during physical therapy. The orthopedic surgeon who operated on Decedent was immediately made aware of the fall, but before the orthopedic s
Medical Malpractice: Verdicts, Settlements, and Experts
On June 12, 2015, the plaintiff's decedent presented to the hospital with complaints of abdominal pain, gallstones, and choledocholithiasis. an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography demonstrated a CBD obstruction secondary to Mirizzi's syndrome with compression of the bile duct. The decedent's liver was of normal size, and no abnormalities were evident. On June 14, 2015, the defendant performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the T-tube placement. Immediately upo