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Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog

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By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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Last Entry: June 10, 2020 at 09:37:56

Unique Story Highlights the ?World?s Worst Doctor?

Posted on December 12, 2010
Vanity Fair recently posted a story of a doctor who has been dubbed the worst in America. The negligent physician is accused of harming hundreds of patients over his years in practice before fleeing the county. The Indiana surgeon has a mind-boggling 350 malpractice lawsuits pending against him...

State Court Declares Medical Malpractice Caps Unconstitutional

Posted on December 11, 2010
Last week Courthouse News Service wrote about a recent state appeals court that reached the same conclusion as the Illinois Supreme Court: medical malpractice damage caps are unconstitutional infringement into the judicial process. The court made the ruling after an appeal by a family whose young daughter suffered debilitating injuries because of the negligent of a nurse...

Doctor Shares Story of Drug Addiction to Emphasize Scope of the Problem

Posted on December 10, 2010
The Chicago Tribune recently published a story involving a doctor who admits to developing an intense drug addiction?it was a problem that put many patients at risk. The doctor, Richard Ready, developed the destructive habit during medical school, and it continued throughout his rise as the chief resident of neurosurgery at a Chicago hospital...

American Association for Justice Comments on U.S. Deficit Commission Report

Posted on December 09, 2010
Early this month a commission charged with looking at ways to cut the U.S. deficit publically released various parts of its plan. The scope of the plan is sweeping, cutting $4 trillion from the federal budget over the next decade, including steep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security...

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Little Progress Made on Improving Patient Safety

Posted on December 08, 2010
The New York Times recently published a story that shares disappointing news about the lack of improvement in the effort to improve hospital safety. A comprehensive 5 year study analyzing the harm caused by medical care in several hospitals found that little to no headway has been in made in recent years to lower the numbers of patients harmed by preventable errors...

Omissions and Misinterpretation In Many Informed Consent Discussions

Posted on December 07, 2010
Many people are aware that their doctors must get their informed consent before proceeding with any course of medical treatment. The logic behind the requirement is clear. Patients have the right to understand the options in front of them, the risks of a course of action, and other important information before allowing a medical professional to take action...

Repeated Errors Found in Indiana Toxicology Tests

Posted on December 06, 2010
A new toxicology audit out of Indiana suggests some troubling results that could have implications for criminal investigations into medical errors. The Chicago Tribune posted a story yesterday on the issue which developed following work by the Indiana Department of Toxicology...

Historical Perspective on Right to Jury Trial In Civil Cases

Posted on December 05, 2010
The need for ?tort reform? continues to be a common refrain among certain political elites, but the reality is that the claim is nothing more than a misunderstood attempt to take away rights from many innocent victims. The Center for Justice and Democracy recently prepared a historical primer on the right to jury trial doctrine that so-called ?reformers? are hoping to eliminate...

DuPage Co. Malpractice Case Allowed To Be Heard In Cook County

Posted on December 04, 2010
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported on Thursday on recent decision by a Cook County judge to deny transfer of a medical malpractice lawsuit to DuPage County where the conduct actually occurred. This was a unique decision in that most cases are resolved locally, in the county where the negligence occurs...

Hospital Begins Reporting Post Surgery Infection Rates

Posted on December 03, 2010
Far too often patients enter a hospital because of one ailment and then contract an infection after they are admitted because of conditions at the hospital. These hospital-acquired infections pose potentially deadly problems for many?especially the most vulnerable patients...

Electronic Records May Have Effect on Malpractice Lawsuits

Posted on December 02, 2010
On this blog we have followed the progress of electronic medical records closely. Many studies have identified the improved care that comes with these records. Similarly, electronic medical orders have been found to provide more consistent care with less error and fewer misunderstandings that occur with paper orders...

Children Exposed To High Levels of Radiation At Dentist?s Office

Posted on December 01, 2010
The New York Times recently explored an issue that hasn?t received much consideration: radiation exposure caused by dental exams. It is well established that children are more vulnerable to radiation than adults. For that reason almost all hospitals and medical clinics do everything in their power to limit child radiation exposure to bare minimum levels...

Hip Implant Patients Continue to Report Problems with DePuy Devices

Posted on November 30, 2010
Word of the problem with hip implants made by DePuy Orthopaedics continues to spread, as ABC News recently reported again on the recall developments. The investigators talked with one patient who had the recalled device implanted. Only five months after the implant she recalls suffering from severe pain...

Levin & Perconti Lawyers Reach $6.5 Million Settlement Following Medical Error

Posted on November 24, 2010
Over ten years ago a family?s life was forever altered following a birth injury that occurred at the Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. Several of our Chicago malpractice attorneys at Levin & Perconti filed a lawsuit against the negligent medical professional and hospital involved in the error to help vindicate the rights of the injured child and her family...

Report on Record-Breaking $17.7 Million Levin & Perconti Settlement

Posted on November 23, 2010
Yesterday the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the latest settlement reached by Levin & Perconti on behalf of a victim of medical malpractice at the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center. We discussed the $17.7 million settlement last week which is not awaiting approval by the judge...

Profits Over Patients At Cause of Many Preventable Medical Errors

Posted on November 22, 2010
A succinct answer to questions about the cause of the majority of preventable medical errors might look something like this: profits over patients. The Las Vegas Sun has conducted published stories on its on-going investigative series looking specifically into the depth of medical mistakes and the reasons that they continue to strike by the hundreds of thousands across the country...

Darvocet and Darvon Pulled From Market For Health Risk

Posted on November 21, 2010
Pharmaceuticals represent a double-edged sword that is common in many of the standard components of modern-day healthcare. Their use unquestionably saves the lives of many and improves the quality life for others. However, medication mistakes and abuse can present unique dangers that also cause death and decreases the standard of living enjoyed by many patients...

Lack of Placebo Standard Raises Questions About Drug Effectiveness

Posted on November 20, 2010
The improper use and administration of pharmaceuticals is a common form of malpractice. Each day patients rely on doctors to prescribe the right type of drug in the right quantity and administered in the right way. Deadly consequences often result when mistakes are made in this regard...

$16.2 Million Settlement For Malpractice Lawsuit Approved By UIC Board

Posted on November 19, 2010
Two of our Chicago malpractice attorneys, Steven Levin and Margaret Battersby, recently helped one victim of medical malpractice reach a $17.7 million settlement agreement with the Chicago medical providers that caused his injuries. In mid-February of 2005 the victim was brought to the Neurosurgical Intensive Care unit at the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center after suffering a stroke...

Botched Surgery Raises Questions About Supervision of Doctors-in-Training

Posted on November 18, 2010
The Dallas Morning News published an extended story last week on a series of medical errors caused by a new ?doctor-in-training? that is raising questions about the degree of supervision provided for these resident physicians. The victim of the medical mistake entered Parkland Memorial Hospital in 2008 with no major health problems except knee arthritis...

New Report: 1 in 7 Medicare Patients Victims of Harmful Care

Posted on November 17, 2010
The Watch Dog Blog recently posted an analysis of a new federal report on the quality of care received by Medicare patients. The results are sad and shocking. One in seven patients was found to have experienced harmful medical care while at a hospital...

Defective DePuy Joint Implants Continue Harming Patients

Posted on November 16, 2010
My Fox Chicago recently shared more information with its readers about the ?junk joints? made by DePuy that continue to affect thousands of patients who underwent joint replacement surgery. The story profiles one particularly young victim. The 43-year old man decided to have a metal hip implanted in his body after suffering sharp pains every time he bent over...

Drug Company Lawyer Charged with False Statements and Obstruction of Justice

Posted on November 15, 2010
The United States Department of Justice issues a press release last week detailing recent charges filed against a lawyer for a large pharmaceutical company. The charges stem from the lawyer?s contact with the Food and Drug Administration in October of 2002...

Eye Doctor Charged With Felony Fraud Flees to Illinois To Continue Treating Patient

Posted on November 14, 2010
Different state medical boards have different rules regarding the consequences faced by doctors when they are found guilty of wrong-doing. Some states mandate harsher penalties that strongly limit a discredited doctor?s ability to continue seeing patients...

Hundreds of Patients Receive Radiation Overdose Following CT Scans

Posted on November 13, 2010
According to the Food and Drug Administration, mistakes made by the operator of CT scan machines have been responsible for over 400 patients receiving an overdose of radiation. According to the Los Angeles Times,the patients were all undergoing a CT scan on their heads when the medical professional leading them through the procedure mistakenly exposed them to an unnecessarily high dose of radiation...

Dialysis Investigation Reveals Troubling Medical Care For U.S. Patients

Posted on November 12, 2010
The nonprofit group ProPublica recently revealed the results of a new study involving the investigation of kidney dialysis patients. Time magazine recently explored the startling findings which show that dialysis patients in the United States are more likely to die than similar patients in almost any other industrialized nation...

Settlement Reached in Hospital Scheme Causing Unnecessary Procedures

Posted on November 11, 2010
The Washington Post reported this week on a settlement in a particularly troubling case of medical deceit. The situation involved a relationship that St. Joseph Medical Center had with MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates?a cardiovascular group co-founded by Mark D...

Chicago-Area Jury Awards $1.5 Million in Malpractice Case

Posted on November 10, 2010
The Kankakee Daily Journal reported yesterday on the end of a malpractice trial that stemmed from the death of a 20 year old young woman in 2006 at a local hospital. The malpractice lawsuit against filed against Provena St.Mary?s Hopsital and an emergency room doctor who treated the victim...

Important Information For DePuy Hip Implant Patients

Posted on November 09, 2010
A newsletter that follows the latest happenings in the world of mass torts and product liability problems recently discussed the litigation surrounding the DePuy hip implant recall. Our Chicago product liability attorneys have been following the developments closely, because many patients in our area may have been affected by the recall...

Lawsuits Filed Against Hospital Sacrificing Care for Profits

Posted on November 08, 2010
Several new lawsuits have been filed against Columbia St. Mary?s Hospital following cost-cutting measures taken by the facility which led to an increase in patient infections. The victims claim that while building a new $400 million hospital, the facility cut its infection control staff, leading to the problems...

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