After deliberating for three full days, a jury found St. Petersburg’s All Children’s Hospital 60% responsible for causing brain damage to a then three-month old baby and ordered the Pinellas hospital to pay $11 million. The jury award will go to Sabrina Smith in helping to care for her son who will need a lifetime worth of care due to the brain damage.
Smith, who was living in St. Petersburg in 2000, took her son Daniel to the hospital after he had been suffering from diarrhea and vomiting for days. After a 4 ½ hour stay at the hospital she was told she could take her son home. The next day he could barely breath and by the time she took him back to the hospital he had suffered irreversible brain injury according to a story on TampaBay.com.
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A mother of three and registered nurse in Broward County has died following nearly a month on life support while in a coma according to a story on TampaBay.com. Rohie Kah-Orukotan went in for a full liposuction surgery at a Weston spa on September 25 and fell into a coma following the procedure. The 37-year-old died nearly a month later.
The medical examiner in Broward County is waiting for test results to determine a cause of death. Lawyers for the victim, the doctor and the spa were contacted for the story but they did not have much to say. The lawyer for Dr. Omar Brito said his client has experience with the procedure and the lawyer for the spa said they are cooperating fully with the investigation. The lawyer for the family verified that the procedure took place at the Weston MedSpa.
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Broward General Medical Center has sent a letter to 1,851 patients who may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis by the negligence of one nurse according to an Associated Press story on the Bradenton Herald website. The hospital claims the risk of infection is low but has advised the 1,800 patients to get tested.
The nurse has resigned and been reported for reusing tubing and saline bags during cardiac stress tests. The hospital was alerted to the problem by a patient who called in anonymously. The time frame for the patients that received the letter runs from early 2004 until September of this year.
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The family of an elderly patient of a Winter Park dentist has filed a personal injury lawsuit against Dr. Wesley Myers. The suit claims negligence on the part of the dentist for dropping dental tools down the man’s throat on two separate occasions. (read more)
The lawsuit claims Dr. Wesley dropped a mini-wrench and an implant screwdriver tool down the throat of Charles Gaal, Jr. in 2006 and 2007. The negligence required surgeries that Gaal never recovered from before passing away in 2007. Meyers was fined $17,000 by the state following the incident.
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President Barack Obama recently gave a speech to the American Medical Association (AMA) and in it he held out the possibility of reforming medical malpractice law. As the President of The United States of America continues to explore ways to reform the health care system in America, capping jury awards in medical malpractice cases is thought to be one possible way to help stem costs. (read more)
Caps are often set between $250,000 and $500,000 and there are many different ways that other countries handle their medical malpractice cases. In France juries do not decide these cases rather specialized commissions rule on malpractice. In Canada medical malpractice represented about the same amount of the cost as it did in America but Canada does do a better job of deterring it.
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