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Nursing Negligence and Fetal Birth Injuries

March 7, 2010 – 9:35 am

Often times Illinois medical malpractice cases focus on the physician’s conduct. But physicians are not the only vital members of medical teams. Nurses play a key role in surgical procedures and particularly in the birthing process. Although there is perhaps a tendency to underestimate the significance of nurses in these procedures, their negligence can be [...]

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Pitocin and Fetal Birth Injuries

March 5, 2010 – 8:46 am

Pitocin is a drug that is commonly used to induce labor. Pitocin causes an increase in uterine contraction activity. The frequency, duration and intensity of contractions are likely to increase following the administration of Pitocin. While this type of increased uterine activity can be helpful in progressing the baby through the birth canal, it also [...]

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Pelvic Exams without Consent: Medical Malpractice Suit?

March 2, 2010 – 8:44 am

Imagine you’re unconscious and several men insert objects into your vagina. Many women would consider this gang rape. At the very least, sexual assault. Guess what, it may have happened to you—without your knowledge!
How would you react if you underwent surgery such as a routine hysterectomy and found out that right after you were anesthetized, [...]

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2 medical aides at W. Phila. abortion clinic are not M.D.’s – as advertised

March 1, 2010 – 8:14 am

Those guys aren’t doctors!
That was the reaction of state authorities yesterday when they tried to verify the licenses of two people listed as medical doctors at Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell’s West Philadelphia abortion clinic, which this week was hit with a series of gruesome allegations.
Steps away from the entrance to Gosnell’s clinic, at 38th Street [...]

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Chicago Birth Injury Attorney Jay Paul Deratany

February 25, 2010 – 10:21 pm

Chicago Birth Injury Lawyer Jay Paul Deratany and the Cerebral Palsy Attorneys of The Deratany Firm have won millions for their clients. Today we published another video discussing our Birth Injury practices. Please let us know what you think…

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$3,991,000 Million Maryland Cerebral Palsy Verdict Awarded to Family

February 24, 2010 – 12:44 pm

In Maryland, a jury awarded the family of Ryan Dineen $3,991,000 for their cerebral palsy lawsuit. Ryan is now 9. His family’s lawsuit alleged that medical staff members at Frederick Memorial Hospital of medical malpractice related to Ryan’s birth in May 2000. Named as defendants in the civil complaint were the hospital, three nurses, and [...]

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Why do doctors still use forceps when they killed our baby?

February 23, 2010 – 7:09 am

With her long eyelashes and black hair, Alexandra was, says her mother Beatrix, ‘the most beautiful thing I could imagine’. The newborn, who weighed 9lb 4oz, had been conceived through IVF after five years of trying (which had involved both parents undergoing surgery) and was a much longed-for child.
So her arrival last June should have [...]

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Doctor barred from doing Lasik surgeries

February 19, 2010 – 4:15 pm

A state regulatory agency is barring a Chicago ophthalmologist from performing Lasik eye surgeries in Illinois, one of a number of disciplinary actions taken against the doctor Friday.
After finding that Dr. Nicholas Caro had engaged in unprofessional conduct and gross negligence, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation suspended his medical license for 30 [...]