LAKE WORTH BEACH, FL – Evelyn LaPlace died at age 91 on September 11, 2020, at Solon Retirement Village in Iowa City. Unfortunately for Henry Hubor, LaPlace’s nephew and executor, evidence was found that the assisted living facility was not comforting and selfless as once believed. As a result of investigations, Solon Retirement Village, their foundation,…
Imagine going in for a hysterectomy and never waking up, being a permanent comatose state. That is exactly what happened to Toshuua Hughes, 46, in Sarasota. It has been 4 years since her initial surgery and she remains in “a state of non-responsive wakefulness.” Hughes’ issues did not originate from the surgery alone, but instead…
NATIONAL—Recently I was reading about a middle-aged male patient who suffered complications after undergoing a robotic-assisted prostatectomy. This early-stage prostate cancer surgery was performed using the assistance of a Da Vinci robotic surgery system. Additionally, the surgery was documented to have taken place without any complications. However, the operating physician later discovered the patient suffered…
NATIONAL—Recently, there was a blood clot amputation case that resulted in a $24,900,000.00 jury award to the Plaintiff. The case involved an incident where doctors failed to provide timely treatment of a blood clot in the Plaintiff’s leg. Therefore, they forced her to undergo an amputation below the knee at age 18. The jury award…
A male patient was rushed to the ER with complaints of severe flank pain. The patient’s medical history included a recent diagnosis of kidney stones. However, the physician suspected the patient suffered from a significant obstruction of his urinary track requiring immediate treatment. The ER physician ordered a complete range of imaging studies, lab tests,…
NATIONAL—New studies appear to have pinpointed a commonly used medical warming blanket as the true cause of many post-surgery Periprosthetic Joint Infections (“PJIs”). The Bair Hugger This warming blanket, known as the “Bair Hugger,” is a Forced-Air Warming blanket that has been used for more than two decades to warm patients during lengthy surgeries. While…
In a recent article in USA Today, “If a 747 jetliner crashed every day, killing all 500 people aboard, there would be a national uproar over aviation safety and an all-out mobilization to fix the problem.” However, “in the nation’s hospitals…about the same number of people die on average every day from medical ‘adverse events,’…
