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28 May 2015, 11:09 am
A study featured in JAMA Psychiatry in 2012 reported that “rates of patients visiting their doctors for a prescription for antipsychotics more than doubled . . . between 1993 and 2009. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 8:18 am
You have a right NOT to allow the nurse go into the exam room when meeting with your doctor. [read post]
Nursing Home Lawsuit Settled After Allegations of Prescribing Powerful Drugs With No Patient Consent
12 Aug 2017, 7:44 am
Plaintiff alleged the nursing home signed a paper saying the doctor had received consent from patient and/ or health care power of attorney to administer the drugs, but no such permission had been given. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 6:07 am
It is advised that prospective nursing home patients and their family consult with their doctor or health care provider, as well as personally visit nursing homes and contact a Long-Term Care Ombudsman or State Survey Agency, before making a decision. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 8:00 am
The Illinois Nursing Home Care Act protects the rights of nursing home residents, such as: freedom to choose one’s own doctor, ability to receive up to date information regarding one’s diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and the ability to contribute in the planning of one’s medical care. [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 12:57 am
Even though about 85 percent of other health care workers (nurses, doctors, nurse practitioners, etc.) got the flu shot this year, fewer than half of all health care workers at nursing home had done the same. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 5:41 am
In Nashville, reporters learned a single nursing home was fined nearly a quarter of a million dollars following the death of a patient whose rapid decline, including symptoms of high fever, swelling, abnormal breathing and paleness, weren't reported to the on-staff doctor. [read post]
2 Apr 2021, 11:12 am
Brill Legal Group has experience representing doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others in prescription drug fraud cases. [read post]
16 Oct 2012, 12:25 pm
As a Pennsylvania nursing home lawyer, I was interested to see a case in which a family was allowed to claim a nursing home was negligent, even though it was not allowed to sue for medical malpractice. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 6:01 pm
Many medical malpractice cases, even ones involving deaths, are due to the conduct of non-doctors. [read post]
10 Sep 2023, 9:03 am
The cap is set at $500,000 for practitioner defendants, such as doctors and nurses, and $750,000 for non-practitioner defendants, such as hospitals and healthcare systems (assuming the victim wasn’t left dead or in a vegetative state, in which case, the damage award goes up slightly). [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 3:08 pm
Health care professionals such as doctors and nurses owe their patients a certain standard of care. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 3:21 pm
Additionally, with the costs of long-term care rising (an average nursing home stay now exceeds $200/day), and with increasingly strict Medicaid rules making it tougher for people to receive government assistance, hospitals, doctors and nursing homes may find themselves with more unpaid bills. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 10:43 am
If a nursing home or doctor incorrectly prescribes morphine it could result in a morphine overdose and cause patient injury or death, in which case the nursing home could be liable for nursing home negligence or wrongful death. [read post]
4 Oct 2008, 9:59 pm
The suit claims that the victim died as a result of negligent post-surgical treatment by the doctor and three nurses. [read post]
22 Nov 2016, 5:00 am
In part, the defense argued that the Plaintiff failed to identify the nurses, doctors, and other medical, professional staff, who allegedly treated the Plaintiff’s decedent in a negligent manner. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 7:33 am
In another case, the nursing home staff failed to inform the doctor of one resident about his serious illness. [read post]
23 May 2012, 11:03 am
State law requires nursing homes to verify that a doctor has received consent, the lawsuit contends the nursing home did not. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 6:00 am
My mother worked in a nursing school and then as a continuing medical education director at a local hospital; my brother is a doctor; my brother's wife is a doctor; my brother-in-law is a doctor; and his wife is a physician's assistant. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 7:09 am
As obvious as this is, it provides a fertile ground for inquiry during written discovery and deposition of the nursing home staff, managing nurses and doctors in nursing home injury cases. [read post]
