Medical Malpractice

• Some Helpful Hints to Avoid Long ER Waits

  Carrie Strasser | June 26, 2009 11:03 AM | 1 CommentCape Cod, MA

  CNN reported that, since 2002, the average waiting time for Emergency Room visits had increased 27 minutes. In 2008, the average waiting time in the ER was four hours and three minutes. The...

• A New Focus on Patient-Centered Care

  Carrie Strasser | June 09, 2009 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A recent article in the New York Times discussed a new approach by some doctors toward a more patient-centered approach in an effort to improve the quality of health care. The article included an...

• MGH Temporarily Closes Pediatric Surgery Program

  Carrie Strasser | April 17, 2009 9:08 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  The Boston Globe reported that Massachusetts General Hospital has temporarily stopped its pediatric cardiac surgery program. This comes after two babies suffered serious complications, one...

• Britain Takes Another Look at Mammograms and their Benefits

  Carrie Strasser | April 01, 2009 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  Advocates and experts urged British health officials to revise informational fliers about mammography in a letter to the Times of London, reported the New York Times on Tuesday. The officials...

• Physician Apologies

  Bruce Bierhans | November 30, 2008 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, 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...

• Lasik and the Patients Right to Know

  Bruce Bierhans | April 26, 2008 11:30 AM | 3 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  In the summer of 2001, I tried a landmark case in Worcester, Massachusetts. I represented the family of a young man with hemophilia that died from receiving clotting concentrate infected with the...

• Jury Finds Against Notre Dame Football Coach in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | August 05, 2007 2:41 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  On Tuesday, a jury found against Notre Dame Football coach Charlie Weis, in his medical malpractice lawsuit. The suit claimed two doctors botched his after-care following gastric bypass surgery five years ago. The jury reached their decision in less than a day, finding two Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons were not negligent.Weis, 51, claimed the surgeons were negligent for allowing him to...

• Woman Suing Planned Parenthood Over Failed Abortion

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 3:14 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A Boston woman is suing Planned Parenthood and two doctors in a medical malpractice lawsuit that alleges they failed to terminate her pregnancy. In March 2004, she found out she was pregnant and for financial reasons, had decided an abortion was the right decision.A Planned Parenthood doctor botched the procedure, leaving her still pregnant. The lawsuit states a doctor at Boston Medical Center...

• Mistrial in Weis' Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | February 21, 2007 1:34 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A mistrial has been declared in Notre Dame Football Coach Charlie Weis' medical malpractice lawsuit after a juror collapses and many doctors - including two of the defendants - rush to help him.The juror started moaning as he was listening to expert testimony in defense of Massachusetts General Hospital Surgeons. Weis's claims surgeons botched his care in June 2002 when he had gastric bypass...

• Assemblyman Disputes Judge's Ruling

  Christina Cole | January 23, 2007 2:24 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  New Jersey Assemblyman Eric Munoz, R-Union, testified against two doctors in a medical malpractice case in Delaware. Although a Judge ruled, he doesn't qualify as an expert witness.Munoz, a trauma surgeon at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, says the judge wrongly questioned his qualifications.Munoz testified as an expert in emergency medicine in the 2004 lawsuit. Delaware...