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Each year, around 700,000 people in the United States have their gallbladder removed, making it a very common surgery. About 90% of those removals are laparoscopic, which involves the surgeon making small incisions and inserting a camera and surgical… Read More

We tend to think of health crises as something to which the U.S. health care system only responds, such as a sudden uptick in infections like Zika or Ebola. But sometimes there are crises for which the system itself bears some responsibility in the f… Read More

Is failure to diagnose Lyme disease medical malpractice? Depending on the circumstances, quite possibly. Medical malpractice requires four elements: a duty, breach of that duty, injury, and damages. The first element, professional duty owed to a pati… Read More

As medical malpractice attorneys, we’ve come to appreciate that there is a lot about our practice area that is second nature to us, but very unfamiliar to our clients. We thought it would be good to take some time to clear up confusion about th… Read More

Which would you prefer: to be incorrectly diagnosed with a serious illness and to undergo painful and unnecessary treatment, or not to be diagnosed with the serious illness you actually have, only to find out the truth too late? Neither outcome, of c… Read More

Your dad has a pacemaker. Your next-door neighbor just got a knee replacement. Your coworker recently had a cardiac stent placed, and your sister confided that she’s thinking about getting an IUD. If it seems to you that a lot of people are get… Read More

Not all that many years ago, people, especially athletes, who got concussions shrugged them off. “Got my bell rung,” they might say, with a touch of pride at having taken the hit. Now, of course, we know that repeated concussions can lead… Read More

With the increase in electronic medical record-keeping, many people have expressed concern about the privacy of their medical information. But not all breaches of private medical information are accidental, or the result of misused technology. Someti… Read More