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• Minnesota Hospital Admits Wrong Organ Removed

  Jenny Albano | March 19, 2008 10:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  Methodist Hospital in Minnesota acknowledged that their medical staff accidentally removed the wrong organ from a patient. Dr. Samuel Carlson, chief medical officer for Park Nicollet Health Services, stated that one of the surgeons removed a patient's healthy kidney and left the cancerous one in place.The surgery was performed last Tuesday, but it wasn't until the next day that a pathologist...

• Ritter Lawsuit Demonstrates How Medical Malpractice Caps Discriminate On Basis Of Wealth

  David Lowe | March 14, 2008 4:22 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  After a month long trial, John Ritter's doctors were found not liable by a California jury for medical malpractice in the actor's death in 2003. The lawsuit alleged that a cardiologist misdiagnosed an aortic dissection as a heart attack, and that a radiologist failed to perform an x-ray that might have revealed the dissection, thus causing Ritter to lose the chance for surgery that might have...

• Divided Supreme Court Affirms Decision In FDA Preemption Case

  David Lowe | March 03, 2008 6:06 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  In the wake of last month's Supreme Court decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, holding that Federal Drug Administration approval of medical devices shielded manufacturers from product liability lawsuits by injured patients, concerns have mounted that the Court will confer similar protection to drug manufacturers whose products have received FDA approval. This would leave injured consumers to the...