According to Syracuse.com, a study published by The Project on Government Oversight suggests that Syracuse’s Veterans Administration Medical Center, also known as the Syracuse VA, has very few medical malpractice claims filed against it. There may be a number of reasons for the low volume and size of claims against…
According to a study conducted by Dr. Ramon Jimenez entitled “Do Poor People Sue Doctors More Frequently?“, poor patients are less likely to sue their doctors for medical malpractice. The study has been published in the February 25, 2012 edition of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. The results of this…
Do you know you statistical risk for a heart attack? The American Heart Association wants you to know so that you can control your risk factors and avoid or delay the onset of heart disease and complications like a myocardial infarction (MI). The AHA heart attack risk calculator can be…
More than 140,000 people die every year from a stroke. As strokes are the number three cause of death in the United States, health care providers should consider a stroke when a patient presents to an emergency room with complaints of a severe headache, face droop, arm drift, and/or slurred…
Preeclampsia, also known as toxemia, is a condition that complicates as many as 10% of pregnancies. Typical symptoms during pregnancy and the immediate post-partum period include high blood pressure, protein in the urine (i.e., proteinuria), foot, leg and hand swelling (i.e., edema), nausea, severe headaches and abdominal pain. A dangerous…
According to the American Heart Association, patients with stroke symptoms who are admitted to a hospital over a weekend have a higher risk of death than those admitted on a weekday. The risk is more than 17% higher. “This known as the weekend effect,” said Syracuse medical malpractice lawyer Michael…
Rather than focus on improving the quality of medical care as a way to reduce health care costs throughout the United States, the self-dubbed “Gang of Six” has included in their budget proposal plans to save “an unspecified amount through medical malpractice reform.” Even conservative republicans, who traditionally support tort…
As discussed in our prior post titled “Premature Birth Injury Topic Of New York Cerebral Palsy Conferences In Syracuse, Binghamton and Watertown,” premature birth is a potentially dangerous pregnancy complication. “Babies born early at are risk for lifelong disabilities like respiratory distress syndrome, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn and…
“Hospital errors result in the death of nearly 200,000 Americans every year,” said New York wrongful death lawyer Michael A. Bottar, Esq. In an effort to improve patient care, and to attract more doctors, upgrade its information/technology systems and stabilize its finances, Community Memorial Hospital, located at 150 Broad Street…
“Even though stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, the signs and symptoms are often overlooked in the emergency room,” said Syracuse medical malpractice lawyer Michael A. Bottar, Esq., of Bottar Law, PLLC. “We are currently representing a man who actually asked emergency room staff…