A California physician was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for conspiring with a pharmacist to illegally distribute controlled substances. Should the pharmacist receive a similar sentence?
A New York court makes the distinction between medical malpractice and ordinary negligence in a case involving a doctor who wrote an illegible prescription.
The patient was hospitalized in 2004 when a computerized tomography (CT) scan showed a mass on her right kidney, but neither the patient nor her family was notified of the mass. In 2006, she was again...
A 31-year-old single mother visited her primary care physician due to pain in her ankle and calf. The next day she underwent an X-ray of the ankle and a Doppler ultrasound of her calf and was told to call...
A 63-year-old man with hepatitis C, cirrhosis of the liver, end-stage liver disease, renal failure, and congestive heart failure, was brought to the hospital by ambulance for complaints of weakness in his...
A 62-year-old man with a history of diabetes, neuropathy, and peripheral vascular disease, came to the emergency department (ED) 3 days after a heavy box fell on his foot at work causing him great pain and...
A New York court recently affirmed a family court decision, finding that a father had neglected his child by twice administering tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) oil to her while she was in the hospital...
A podiatrist had a former patient who began requesting a copy of his medical records in September 2018. After attempting numerous times to get a copy of the medical records to resubmit to his insurance...
