Blog Posts in November, 2013

Mother fights for Leah's Law for monitoring post-op patients

New Jersey parents might be interested in what one mother is doing. The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in December 2002 is taking a case to the legislature of California in 2014. Her daughter's death has devastated her family, and she is making it her mission in life to change the way hospitals monitor post-op patients in the hope that she can make a ...

Routine gynecological examination goes wrong

New Jersey women might be shocked to learn about an Ohio woman who went to the doctor for a routine gynecological examination and allegedly ended up getting her vagina sprayed with potassium hydroxide, a chemical used in most drain cleaners. The doctor was performing a colposcopy, in which vinegar or a similar substance is sprayed into a woman's vagina in order to check for abnormalities. She is ...

Medical malpractice lawsuit settled for $7.5 million

New Jersey readers may take interest in the account of a $7.5 million settlement that was awarded to a Los Angeles County toddler who sustained a brain injury at birth. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that the baby's brain was deprived of oxygen during delivery because his mother suffered a ruptured uterus. The attorney on behalf of the toddler argued that the brain injury could have been ...

Chief of nursing home fined in sexual assault case

New Jersey residents might be startled to hear about the case of an administrator at an Iowa nursing home who was fined $500 for failing to protect the residents of the home from a convicted sex offender. One of the residents of the nursing home was a convicted sex offender, and the Iowa Board of Nursing Home Administrators alleged that the administrator of the nursing home should have known that ...

MRSA found in NFL locker rooms

Football fans in New Jersey may have heard that the Washington Redskins completely updated their headquarters in 2006 after the discovery of a dangerous staph infection that could have disabled many of the team's players. Reports say that locker rooms can become a breeding ground for the deadly bacteria known as MRSA, which can debilitate players just as quickly as the more publicized concussion ...