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Retained Foreign Bodies and Medical Malpractice

Retained Foreign Bodies and Medical Malpractice

Sometimes during surgery, pieces of medical equipment, such as gauze, sponges, surgical needles, knife blades, and tubes, are left in a patient's body after...

Negligent Selection and Retention of Physicians

Negligent Selection and Retention of Physicians

What is the duty of a hospital to ensure that the physicians working there are competent? Can a hospital be held liable for acts done by an incompetent physician...

Wrongful Birth

Wrongful Birth

Wrongful birth is a term used to describe a medical malpractice claim for the birth of a child that would not have been born in the absence of medical malpractice. There are three types of...

Claims Based on Fraud and Deceit

A physician and his patient are in a relationship based on the patient's trust and confidence in the integrity and good faith of the physician. Therefore, in many states a physician is held to a higher standard in his actions towards the patient,...

Aggravation of Injuries in Medical Malpractice Cases

What happens if, after a patient has been injured by the negligence of a physician, he or she goes to a second physician for treatment of the injury caused by the first doctor, and the injury is aggravated by the negligence of the second doctor?...