Medical Negligence News
13 Spinal Surgery Patients Exposed to Fatal Brain Disease
13 spinal surgery patients in the Northeast may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, after being operated on with equipment that was used previously on a patient that showed symptoms of the disease before her death.CJD is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease that typically affects 200 Americans every year. It affects the victim’s […]
Lavern’s Law Fails to Pass in New York
In the last three years Brooklynite Lavern Wilkinson has been let down by nearly everyone she thought she could trust. Back in February 2010 Lavern checked into Kings County Hospital with a chronic cough. The doctors ordered a chest X-ray that clearly revealed early stages of lung cancer. Only no one notified Lavern. Rather than […]