In late March, as the threat of the coronavirus became evident, a new provision was inserted into the state’s budget bill. Many lawmakers were unaware of it. It provides surprising new protections from liability for hospitals, healthcare facilities and nursing home...
Medical Malpractice
Could cognitive bias have caused a medical error?
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Mar 30, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Cognitive biases are unconscious. They change our understanding of events. One example is anchoring, where people naturally place weight on the first information they receive, even if order is not important. Therefore, if you see a car priced at $20,000 and then later...
Hospital shift nurses may not be getting enough sleep for safety
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Dec 16, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
In order to function well, people need seven to eight hours of sleep each night. Sleep deprivation, whether acute or chronic, can hurt your ability to handle complex or stressful tasks and make you more prone to errors. In nursing, sleep deprivation could cause...
New York names facilities where deadly C. auris has been found
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Nov 15, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 35,000 people in the U.S. die each year from treatment-resistant infections. One of them is Candida auris (C. auris), a drug-resistant fungus that has been spreading globally. Now, New York State has...
E. coli contamination leads to death of fecal transplant recipient
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Nov 4, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
Fecal microbiota transplants, or FMT, is a relatively new procedure in which feces from a healthy donor is transplanted into the bowels of a sick patient. This is done to restore the sick patient’s microbiome, or the bacteria and other organisms that live in the...
Workers abused developmentally disabled Bronx group home residents
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Oct 7, 2019 | Medical Malpractice
New York State has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit brought on behalf of three developmentally disabled women who were abused and neglected at a Bronx group home. The state will pay the women $6 million in compensation, even after it spent $5.7 million defending the...
Is malpractice immunity for doctors a good idea? Not for victims.
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Apr 18, 2018 | Medical Malpractice
Any time people talk about rising healthcare costs, the conversation often turns into a debate about tort reform. On one side of the argument are those who believe doctors need to be held accountable when they make mistakes. After all, how can victims of medical...
Medical malpractice claims are often linked to misdiagnoses
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Apr 9, 2018 | Medical Malpractice
When we go to the hospital with a medical emergency, we expect that the doctors working there will be able to at least figure out what is causing our medical problems. Unfortunately, we may be expecting too much.In fact, a report issued last month found that diagnosis...
Study: One out of five patients misdiagnosed
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Mar 2, 2018 | Medical Malpractice
Over the last several years, few industries have experienced as many advancements and breakthroughs as healthcare -- everything from new medications to state-of-the-art surgical and diagnostic tools.Given these many medical advancements, one would think that now more...
Tips patients can use to help avoid errors in the operating room
On Behalf of Edelman & Edelman, P.C. | Jan 11, 2018 | Medical Malpractice
Even though we trust our doctors and other medical professionals to get things right, the reality is that they make mistakes just like everyone else. However, there is one very big difference between medical mistakes made by doctors and mistakes made by everyone else:...
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