Changing Standards of Care and Your Malpractice Risk
March 22nd 2012There is a good deal of emerging literature concerning the new automated multi-arrays utilizing peripheral blood samples for the identification of genetic abnormalities. Testing for 100 or more occult genetic disorders can now be rapidly processed by automated machinery with highly reproducible and reliable results.
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Laparoscopic Surgery & Malpractice Risk, Part 2: Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
January 19th 2012Kevin Giordano, Esq. and John O’Grady, MD, examine two laparoscopic hysterectomies that resulted in occult ureteric injury.Is it possible that the same event might be considered the standard of practice in one case but not the other?
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Laparoscopic Surgery & Malpractice Risk, Part 1: Diagnostic Laparoscopy
January 12th 2012Is the concept of an “accepted complication”-or the identified limitations of medical science-a shield to malpractice claims? Kevin Giordano, Esq. and John O’Grady, MD, explore liability risks of diagnostic laparoscopy.
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