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Medical Malpractice Suit Settled in Death of Infant |
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 Today the Chicago Tribune reports that a three-year-old medical malpractice case has been settled for $1.6 million. Provena St. Joseph Medical and the pediatrician accused in the case will $600,000 and one million dollars respectively.
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What is Medical Malpractice? |
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 Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer or AIDS-three causes that receive far more public attention.
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Misdiagnosis Claims Explained |
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 Medical malpractice is essentially the failure of a medical provider (including doctors, pharmacists, radiologists, laboratory technicians and nurses) to use reasonable care in treating a patient.
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Anesthesia Negligence Defined |
 Injury may occur when anesthesia is improperly given or not given in a timely manner to a patient. If the failure of the anesthesiologist the cause of injury or death to a patient, damages may be recoverable under the laws of medical malpractice. |
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OB-GYN Malpractice Can Cause Serious Injury to Your Child |
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 OB or obstetrics malpractice may include failure of the obstetrician to properly perform his or her duties including failure to perform the proper laboratory tests, including diagnosing Rh-negative patients, a blood test or amniocentesis that would diagnosis possible defects in the fetus, all of which could cause injury or death to both the mother and the fetus.
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