Organ Transplant and Medical Malpractice
In the United States, there are currently over 123,000 people – men, women, and children – who are in need of organ transplants to save their life. Another name is added every 10 minutes to the national organ transplant waiting list. Unfortunately, an average of 21 people die every day due to delays in receiving the organ they need. In 2014, roughly 24,000 organ transplants are made possible by over 8,500 deceased donors and nearly 6,000 transplants from living donors.
The Damage Caused by what Surgeons Leave Behind
According to research from Johns Hopkins University, “never events”, or events that should never happen in surgery, occur at least 4,000 times annually in the United States. It also revealed that “never events” occurred more than 80,000 times between 1990 and 2010.
Crane Collapse Leads to Call For Better Safety
In February of 2016, construction workers at 60 Hudson Street in New York City were attempting to secure a crane crawler. The construction workers had become concerned about high winds and snowy conditions. As the workers were in the process of attempting to secure the crane, the crane buckled. This resulted in the crane crashing […]
A Look at Driver and Pedestrian Safety Issues in NYC
Seniors and young children are two demographic groups that tend to be at especially high risk of getting hurt in a pedestrian accident. Seniors may have reductions in cognitive function related to age that can make it more difficult for them to determine when it is safe to cross a road. Physical impairment and age-related […]
Negligent Driving can Cost You Your Life – Tips on Driving Safely in Windy Conditions
Statistics show that in the United States, the annual average number of car accidents is 6 million. Every day, there are over 90 deaths and about 3 million people are injured every year across the country. Approximately 2 million car accident drivers experience permanent injuries due to negligent driving every year. Driving in weather conditions […]
Maritime Accidents and Personal Injury Claims
In 2011, 4,588 recreational boating accidents were reported by the Coast Guard. The majority of these maritime accidents occurred to cabin motorboats, motorboats and personal watercraft. These accidents resulted in 758 deaths and 3,081 injuries. For every 100,000 registered recreational vessels, the corresponding fatality rate was 6.2 deaths. This is an increase of nearly 15% […]
How to File a Domestic Violence Lawsuit
As many as one out of three adolescents have allegedly gone through violence while dating. Apart from physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, many teenagers and young adults are also exposed to “digital” abuse. A recent study reveals that about 10 percent of adolescents claim to have been under threat by means of IM, email, chat, […]
Patient claims doctors attempted to cover up surgery error
New York patients may be interested to learn that a 60-year-old claimed in a lawsuit that a Connecticut hospital removed the wrong body part during a surgical procedure. She claimed that the doctors then attempted to cover up the mistake.
Preventing medication errors
New York patients should know that an estimated 7,000 people around the country die annually due to medication errors, and a total of about 1 million errors happen each year in U.S. hospitals. In one 2016 case, an 87-year-old woman was rushed to the emergency room due to a high fever, and her sister gave the ER doctor the woman’s medical history and a list of the medications she was on including some that had been recently added for cognitive issues.
How Changes to Road Designs Could Reduce NYC Traffic Deaths
Last year, despite efforts to reduce the number of pedestrian deaths, there were high fatality rates in New York. City Limits, for example, reported that for the first 13 days of November, a pedestrian died every single day in the city as a result of an accident with a bus or car that was traveling […]