Medical Malpractice

• Fewer Malpractice Payouts Linked To Electronic Health Records

  Chrissie Cole | February 04, 2009 11:55 AM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  A new report, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, suggests electronic health records (EHRs) reduce the amount of malpractice payouts. Researchers found that of the doctors who used EHRs,...

• Physician Apologies

  Bruce Bierhans | November 30, 2008 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  The Cape Cod Times recently published an editorial supporting an evidentiary change making physician aplogies inadmissable at trial. The following is a copy of my letter to the Editor, published a...

• To Train our Future Doctors, the Only Cost is Patient Care

  Carrie Strasser | November 05, 2008 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  I have a friend in medical school in Philadelphia. She is currently in her third year and just beginning her clinical training and treatment of real patients. While her first two years of class work...

• Patients' First Advocates are Themselves

  Carrie Strasser | October 02, 2008 2:09 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  A Pew Report released last month stated that at least three-quarters of Internet users search online for health information. And 75 percent of online patients with a chronic problem told the...

• Physicians and Conflicts of Interest

  Bruce Bierhans | September 25, 2008 2:50 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  In todays Wall Street Journal, it was reported that a lawsuit has been brought by a former Medtronics attorney that alleges that the company(a medical device maker), provided surgeons with...

• Know Your Chiropractors Technique

  Bruce Bierhans | August 16, 2008 5:46 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  Our office has seen a number of recent cases involving serious injuries received as the result of chiropractic treatment. These involve stroke, paralysis of a lung and acute disc herniation. Let me...

• Mass SJC Allows "Loss of Chance" Recovery

  Bruce Bierhans | August 01, 2008 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  In a spectacular decision this week affirming victims rights, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that damages are recoverable where a physicians negligence reduced the decedents chance...

• Orange County Toddler Malpractice Trial to Begin

  Chrissie Cole | April 29, 2008 2:02 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  The medical malpractice suit filed by the family of an Orange County girl revived after doctors allegedly declared her dead in 200 is slated to begin on Monday. The girl was 20 months old when she...

• Medical Negligence/Who are the Victims

  Bruce Bierhans | April 12, 2008 1:20 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  This past week, I attended an Injury Board conference. I enjoyed meeting member lawyers from other parts of the country. One of the persitent laments during the week was the increasing difficulty in...

• Nursing Home Falls

  Bruce Bierhans | March 27, 2008 3:58 PM | 0 CommentsStoughton / Canton, MA

  Why should anyone fall seven times in a nursing home??Seems like a reasonable question...one asked by a client of ours when his mother died after seven falls from her wheelchair. Unfortunately, the decedent had never been evaluated as a fall risk, nor had the client been consulted about a possible safety restraint, known as a "lap buddy" that could have prevented the death.When you admit a...