A Cocoa Beach resident was recently awarded $3.6M in a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of his wife. The case went to arbitration and the defendants have filed a notice that they wish to appeal the verdict. The patient had gone to Cape Canaveral Medical Hospital where she received four spinal injections for lower […]
Medical Malpractice
Living Donor Dies During Liver Transplant Sparking Ethical Debate
Should you be able to sell your organs for profit? Should you be able to give your organs to someone in your family in order to save their lives? These are two manifestations of the same ethical debate. Can a layperson without a medical degree really understand all of the consequences that giving one of […]
Family Sues Fertility Doctor who Used His Own Sperm
A family is suing a fertility doctor who they claim used his own sperm to fertilize his patient’s egg. In a plotline that sounds like it was spun out of a television drama, the doctor is accused of switching out the sperm samples of a medical student with his own. The parents have now initiated […]
New York Doctor Accused of Gross Negligence and Fraud
An emergency room doctor who worked in Poughkeepsie and Elmira stands accused of gross negligence for discharging five patients with severe medical conditions that were in need of immediate attention. This same doctor subject to disciplinary hearings for the misconduct which occurred between 2012 and 2016. However, he attested on applications to other New York […]
Trouble at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital has been the subject of a number of news articles amid a scandal that saw patient deaths skyrocket over the three-year period during which Johns Hopkins took control. Initially, All Children’s had a great reputation throughout Florida as one of the premier hospitals for pediatric heart surgery. In an attempt […]
