Every day, the lawyers at Messa & Associates evaluate potential cases involving knee and hip replacement surgery. According to research published in The Journal Bone & Joint Surgery, the number of total knee replacements performed annually has doubled over the last decade, with the largest increase among young adults. The Centers for Disease Control and […]
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Two-hundred and seventy fathers, mothers, children, brothers, sisters, and friends will die today as a result of medical malpractice and preventable medical errors. The same was true yesterday and will repeat itself tomorrow. As hospitals, physicians, and nurses continue to navigate the changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”); patient safety remains […]
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Duodenoscopes manufactured by Olympus Corporation (dubbed “superbug scopes”) have recently been blamed for the spread of an antibiotic resistant “superbug” called Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) that killed two patients at the UCLA medical center in California. The scopes are used in exploratory endoscopic procedures and investigations have revealed that the scopes’ design, full of grooves and […]
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May is National Stroke Awareness Month and medical malpractice attorneys from Messa & Associates, along with the National Stroke Association, urge you to be educated and aware of stroke risk factors and warning signs. Stroke is a “brain attack” that cuts off all blood and oxygen flow to the brain, killing up to two million […]
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Medical malpractice attorneys alerted patients about a year ago of an FDA Class I recall of defective Medtronic Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) leads due to twisting of parts during the surgical implantation. A year later, a Wall Street Journal analysis of adverse events reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that more than […]
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One year later, Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys revisit the deadly multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak that left 64 people dead and hundreds of others sickened. The meningitis outbreak was linked to tainted steroid injections manufactured by New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass. The company has been closed since last year following an investigation that turned […]
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In our last four medical malpractice blog posts, we discussed Wall Street Journal article, How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us. The article, authored by Dr. Marty Makary, appeared in The Wall Street Journal on September 22, 2012 and offered five suggestions that Dr. Makary believes will help to facilitate patient safety. First, online dashboards […]
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Medical malpractice attorneys have reviewed findings of a new study, published in a recent issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, that have concluded that 10 patients were infected with life-threatening Staphylococcus aureus (commonly known as staph infection) via repeated use of single-use medication vials. The patients were treated in outpatient clinics in Arizona […]
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Medical Malpractice Lawyers: Some Medical Professionals Openly Admit to Medical Errors More hospitals and doctors are beginning to admit their mistakes to patients, apologize for the medical error and work with patients to settle any potential claims. Ten years ago, The University of Michigan created a system to do that and now other hospitals are […]
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