Medical Malpractice and Surgical errors/complications

Medical errors and malpractice for Surgical errors/complications: medical news summaries for Surgical errors/complications:

The following medical news items are relevant to the medical errors (including malpractice) for Surgical errors/complications:

• $1.175 million awarded in a medical malpractice case
• $2.6 million malpractice verdict challenged
• 82 million yen compensation awarded after Japanese man dies from blood loss
• Anesthetist cleared of baby killing charges
• Appeal to decide on medical malpractice case
• Arbitration may prevent unnecessary malpractice court cases
• Baby circumcision mix up
• Bowel perforated during tubal ligation procedure
• Caesarean sections, the preferred way to deliver
• Doctor criminally negligent after suffocating patient
• Doctor loses law suit after misdiagnosing a ruptured appendix
• Doctor operates on child’s wrong kidney
• Doctor reprimanded for surgical hernia error
• Face lift lead to woman's death
• Family compensated when man dies after untrained doctor delivers fatal painkiller overdose
• Family receives nearly $1 million from hospital without even going to trial
• Four patients die after one doctor performed the same operation on three of them
• Hospital medical error settles out of court
• Husband settles for $675,000 after wife’s hernia surgery proves fatal
• Inexperienced nurse and understaffing caused patient death
• Lawsuit follows woman’s death after back surgery
• Malpractice cases could be reduced if more doctors apologised
• Malpractice suit for orthopedic surgeon
• Man dies 5 weeks after wrong kidney removed during operation
• Man receives $3.3 million after he loses his sight following unnecessary heart surgery
• Man sues for loss of leg and livelihood
• Medical error in surgery causes debilitating death
• Medical malpractice charge on anesthetist due to asphyxiation during surgery
• Medical malpractice over neglected surgical instrument in patients' abdomen
• Orthopedic surgeon may have to face over 70 lawsuits
• Pharmacy gives infant heart drugs 10 times the prescribed dosage
• Post-operative stroke results in court case
• Regional block performed without consent leads to a $1.5 million verdict
• Spinal surgery resulting in paraplegia leads to $16 million award
• Sponge left in man’s arm following surgery
• Surgeon leaves sponge in patient during hysterectomy
• Surgical tools used during spinal operation were soaked in hydraulic fluid
• Timing of antibiotics can have a huge effect on wound infections
• Woman adjusts her medical malpractice claim to $800,000 following the outcome of a similar trial
• Woman's ulcers misdiagnosed as cancer
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Medical malpractice statistics for Surgical errors/complications:

The following are statistics from various sources about medical malpractice and Surgical errors/complications:

• General medical malpractice statistics related to surgery malpractice in the USA:
  • Nearly 50% of malpractice trials were against surgeons in 75 of the largest counties in the US 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
  • Nearly 33% of malpractice trials were against nonsurgeons in 75 of the largest counties in the US 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
  • Roughly 50% of medical malpractice trials related to surgeons in the 75 largest counties in the US 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice)
  • Roughly 33% of medical malpractice trials related to nonsurgeons in the 75 largest counties in the US 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice)
  • Roughly 23% of medical malpractice trials against nonsurgeon doctors were won by the plaintiff in the 75 largest counties in the US 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice)
  • Roughly 26.5% of medical malpractice trials against surgeons were won by the plaintiff in the 75 largest counties in the US 2001 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice)
• Medical malpractice lawsuit payment statistics for surgery malpractice in the USA:
  • 4,132 medical malpractice payments were made due to surgery related malpractice in the US 2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • $222,285 was the mean medical malpractice payments made due to surgery related malpractice in the US 2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • $115,000 was the median medical malpractice payments made due to surgery related malpractice in the US 2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • 49,429 medical malpractice payments were made due to surgery related malpractice in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • $172,172 was the mean medical malpractice payments made due to surgery related malpractice in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • $82,500 was the median medical malpractice payments made due to surgery related malpractice in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
• Medical malpractice lawsuit payment report statistics for surgery-related malpractice in the USA:
  • There were 28,102 surgery related primary malpractice acts or omissions in the US 1990-96 (The National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File)
  • 24% of primary malpractice acts or omissions were surgery related in the US 1990-96 (The National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File)
  • $3,851,200,397 in payments were made for surgery related primary malpractice acts or omissions in the US 1990-96 (The National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use File)
• Medical malpractice lawsuit payment statistics for surgery malpractice in the USA:
  • There was a 5.56 year mean time delay between surgery related malpractice incident and payment in the US 2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • There was a 4.63 year median time delay between surgery related malpractice incident and payment in the US 2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
• Medical malpractice lawsuit payment statistics for surgery malpractice and nurses in the USA:
  • 274 surgery related malpractice payment reports were made against registered nurses in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • 46 surgery related malpractice payment reports were made against nurse anaesthetists in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • 7 surgery related malpractice payment reports were made against nurse midwives in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • 5 surgery related malpractice payment reports were made against nurse practitioners in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)
  • 1 surgery related malpractice payment reports were made against advanced nurse practitioners in the US 1990-2002 (2002 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS)

Medical articles on symptoms:

These general reference articles may be of interest:

• Medical Malpractice
• Medical Malpractice Overview
• Symptoms and Medical Malpractice
• More Medical Malpractice Information
• List of Medical Malpractice Articles
• Medical Malpractice Dictionary

About malpractice:

For a general overview of medical malpractice issues for all diseases, see Medical Malpractice. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, including malpractice-related issues in misdiagnosis, see Overview of Misdiagnosis.