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Every year, 700,000 people are rushed to emergency rooms and 120,000 are hospitalized because of prescription drug errors in Kentucky and nationally. Many of these victims will die. The family of a 16-year-old girl who died from an alleged negligent prescription of birth control pills has sued the Stanford medical clinic where the pills were…
The most common cause of radiology malpractice in Kentucky and other states is diagnostic error, a new study reveals. Breast cancer, non-spinal fractures, spinal fractures, lung cancer, and vascular disease were the most frequently missed diagnoses, according to research published in the February issue of Radiology. The study examined medical malpractice data for 8,401 radiologists…
A February 19, 2013, New York Time’s article, “Losing My Leg to a Medical Error”, by Op-Ed Contributor Frederick S. Southwick, a professor of medicine at the University of Florida, addressed the emotional and physical pain of being the recipient of another doctor’s mistake. Southwick suffered an above-the-knee amputation this year as a result of…
Authorities suspended the medical license of a Kentucky doctor Monday in response to allegations he was irresponsibly prescribing pain medication to his patients. The state Board of Medical Licensure suspended Dr. Gary Shearer’s license while it reviews evidence obtained by the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration during a raid of his Florence office earlier this…
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