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Nosocomial Infections Are Super Bugs Acquired In Hospitals: Tell Us Your Story

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:55:39 GMT

Nosocomial Infections: Did You Get One? Tell Us About This Avoidable Medical Malpractice!

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA): A Killer!

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:53:42 GMT

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus can be avoided

Hospital Acquired Infection Is A Threat To You

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:49:25 GMT

Hospital acquired infection or Nosocomial infection is malpractice that is avoidable

Botox problems complications? Make them pay!

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:44:20 GMT

Botox problems complications? Consult us for free, we'll help you get compensation

Arthroscopic knee surgery: the frequent scandal!

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:22:51 GMT

Arthroscopic knee surgery and lavage is so commonly done, yet it has been shown to be useless and negligent

Medical Malpractice Investigation for free!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:38:40 GMT

You've suffered a loss from medical malpractice? You need compensation. We'll find all the hidden medical negligences to help you and your lawyer build your case and you'll pay only on results

Samples? Not yet convinced? Have a look at these cases!

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:02:19 GMT

Samples: these are some we have helped make the claim and win. Facts and names have been changed to keep anonymity.

QnA bring an opportunity to get a better insight in our activities

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:45 GMT

QnA may answer some of your querries before you decide to contact us.

The process: no win, no fee

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:59:18 GMT

The process and service we offer takes you step by step towards increased compensation and a successful outcome to your claim. But, if the claim eventually fails, you pay us nothing.

Increase compensation is the aim but there are hurdles to overcome

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:57:20 GMT

We want to increase compensation due to you. Find out who stands in the way of success!

Confidentiality is guaranteed

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:54:55 GMT

Confidentiality is preserved by making all documents anonymous of any names of persons and places. We are only interested in the facts. We do not need the names!

Compensation is due if you are the victim of medical malpractice or negligence

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:53:05 GMT

Compensation is due to you and your family if you have been injured by medical mistakes. Claim it. It may also save other lives by highlighting lapses in practice standards!

Attorneys specializing as medical negligence lawyers can use our service.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:49:44 GMT

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Salvage surgery in cancer

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:50:14 GMT

Leg Med (Tokyo). 2009 Mar 31. Fatal vascular injury as a result of operations: Experience of two surgery-related autopsies. Shigeta A et al We experienced two autopsy cases of unexpected death during surgical operation. Case 1 was a 60-year-old male. Salvage esophagectomy was performed from the right side of the thrax. After dissection of the lymph node, blood pressure decreased suddenly. Emergency thoracotomy was done for diffuse hemothorax in the left thoracic cavity. The patient died despite aggressive hemostasis. Autopsy findings revealed that the operator dissected the left subclavian artery instead of the lymph nodes. Case 2 was a 60-year-old male with advanced thyroid cancer with pelvic metastasis. Surgical removal of the sacrum was attempted for pain relief. The operation was interrupted because of massive hemorrhage from the iliac veins. After the operation, the patient's left leg quickly became necrotic. Despite the bypass grafting from the right to the left femoral artery, the patient died of reperfusion injury. Autopsy revealed ligation of the left common iliac artery along with the accompanying vein. The leg necrosis was thought to have resulted from the vascular ligation. In these two cases, the demonstration and elucidation of the causes of deaths were required with medicolegal autopsies. However, it proved difficult to visualize the operated vessels in detail. In autopsy investigations related to surgical operations, detailed information of the clinical course is valuable and should be provided by the operators themselves, as well as being obtained from clinical charts. Discussion: This article reminds us of the necessity of very careful approach to so called "salvage surgeries" in terminal cancer. A fully informed consent discussing the risks- benefits ratio is an absolute necessity and should be confirmed by a non surgical doctor such as the anesthesiologist. The reality of survival time should be discussed with precision because very often, patients would not want to go ahead with an obvious risky surgery. The point of surgery should also be discussed and go ahead only with very experienced teams. A multidisciplinary team involving surgeons, oncologist, radiotherapist, pain management teams, palliative care, anesthesiologist and the patient's physician should have an input in the patient's treatment. We have seen many cases ending up in courts with many of those aspects not having been present.

Break in prison hospital story

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:12:36 GMT

Lawyers make their living by the skill they have with words. We have to plead a case, impress a judge, sell a jury. So Im going to come at a simple legal idea by a backdoor route. Be patient. Its going to be fun. When people are locked inside a prison, they become prisoners. So warders and the convicts are equal once inside the prison gates except, of course, the warders can leave lawfully most of the time. It would be a breach of contract in some cases and potentially a criminal offence in others (e.g. if they were leaving to strike). So, when warders walk out, those who remain are locked in. When they are locked in without warders, there has to be a lock down. A lock down is when people are locked up (in their cells). Police officers have to be drawn down from reserves to ring fence the prisons to prevent break out by the prisoners who are locked in or break in by criminals intent upon releasing those locked down. When striking warders meet the Government for talks, they are locked in discussion and lock horns. Doctors and their patients are locked in a relationship of dependence. No-one likes to be injured or ill so, like prisoners, patients find themselves confined in a care system. They rely on the skill of the doctors and health care professionals to treat and, hopefully cure whatever is wrong. Doctors can foresee that if they make a mistake or leave before the job is done, the patient may be more seriously injured. The duties and responsibilities owed by doctors to their patients lock everyone together. For example, a patient comes into a hospital with a broken arm, but the wound is later infected and the arm is lost through gangrene. This is a second injury. Perhaps it was caused by the hospital. Perhaps there was medical negligence. When someone in prison falls ill, this may be the fault of the prison, but it always depends on the facts. Perhaps, a visitor brought in food that was tainted, perhaps a warder passed on the flu. Accident and coincidence are big problems when it comes to proving that someone caused an injury and was at fault for doing so. In our hospital example, suppose a relative brings in a potted plant and the patient transfers soil from the plant to the wound. Is that an accident or is the hospital at fault for not insisting that the plant be removed? It all comes down to provable cause and effect. When the injured and ill are staying in a hospital, there does have to be a lock down during which the hospital ring fences the patients and keeps them safe from foreseeable harm. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where the lawyers come in. They lock horns about what is foreseeable. If the second injury is not foreseeable, the hospital is not liable for medical negligence. AND THATS THE TRUTH (cap lock).

David Marshall's first blog post

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:37 GMT

Welcome to the first blog post. Im David Marshall and, with the skill of a juggler developed over the years, Im going to be doing a number of different things here. The first is the ego tripping, introducing myself and proving the business has a real human being behind it. Too often you find a web site, see a pretty design, read some plastic prose advertising the service offered, but learn nothing about the people who run it. This sites going to be little different. This is not going to be one of those carefully crafted professional blogs. Im just going to hang out here once or twice a week. Secondly, Im going to introduce some of the concepts that make the law such a fun subject so, when you do meet with a lawyer, youll have some idea of whats going on. And, finally, Ill be keeping you up-to-date with anything of interest in the medical malpractice or medical negligence fields. Off with the first ball in the air, my mother thought she'd done so well with her choice of name. Boys at school always get terrible nicknames based on their parent's decisions you can't do anything about the accidents of fate that dub you "Spotty" or "Farty" but she had everything else under control. David, she thought, was a safe name. It could only spawn the contractions of Dave or Davy, and she avoided adding Alan so that I wouldn't be damned or Ian as a comment on my brain power. But her plans all came to naught when the Disney Corporation launched a major film with a hummable theme song. I was instantly rechristened Crockett. Now Im all growed up, I still have a tendency to shoot my mouth off and have been known to wear silly hats like Managing Director of companies. Other than that, I'm perfectly normal for an old guy who, at my time of life, should know better than start a new company specialising in medical malpractice and medical negligence cases.

Telemedicine: the legal aspects

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:10:12 GMT

Wu HH., Evolving medical service in the information age: a legal analysis of applying telemedicine programs in Taiwan, Med Law. 2008 Dec;27(4):775-85. In the face of the information age, Internet and telecommunication technologies have been widely applied in various settings. These innovational technologies have been used in the areas of e-commerce, long distance learning programs, entertainment, e-government, and so on. In recent years, the evolution of Internet technology is also pervading the health care industry. This dramatic trend may significantly alter traditional medical practice as well as the means of delivery of health care. The idea of telemedicine is to use modern information technology as a means or platform to deliver health care service in remote areas and to manage medical information in digitalized forms. The progress of developing telemedicine, however, is rather slow. The main reason for this slow progress is not technological but rather legal. Health care providers are reluctant to promote this innovation in medical service mainly due to uncertain legal consequences and ethical concerns. Comments: Contact between a patient and a carer is the basis of trust. The loss of physical contact is certainly a legal problem that is amplified when sometimes even verbal and non verbal messages are lacking.

Who are we?

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:56:49 GMT

Who are we? We provide medical negligence legal advice through our medical investigations team

Nerve lesions due to tonsillectomy: did they tell you?

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:56:43 GMT

The importance of informed consent is again underlined in this article on nerve lesions following tonsillectomy. Windfuhr JP, Schlndorff G, Sesterhenn AM, Kremer B, From the expert's office: localized neural lesions following tonsillectomy, Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2009 Jan 31

Sudden cardiac death secondary to antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs.

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:32:34 GMT

Atypical antipsychotic drugs and the risk of sudden cardiac death. Antipsychotics and the risk of sudden cardiac death. Cyclic antidepressants and the risk of sudden cardiac death. Risk of death in elderly users of conventional vs. atypical antipsychotic medications. All the above are titles from medical journals! Do you really need to hear more about the risks of antidepressants and antipsychotics? Have you been told about it before you got it? Did you really give an informed consent? Have you been given the choice of alternatives? As a cardiac patient, were you told that these drugs increase your risk of sudden cardiac death more than threefolds? If you or a relative have unwillingly suffered from these drugs, you may have a case for compensation. Don't hesitate to contact us.