A jury last week awarded $5 million to the estate of a deceased woman as part of a verdict in a lawsuit against Montgomery’s Jackson Hospital. The jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court deliberated about one hour and 45 minutes Friday before finding against the hospital in the case for the family of Alice Mae Reed. Brett Turnbull of the Turnbull Law Firm and Andrew Moak of Alexander Shunnarah Personal Injury Lawyers worked the case for the plaintiffs.
North Carolina Children’s Hospital will stop performing complicated heart surgeries while an outside group examines its practices, hospital officials announced Monday. The decision to temporarily suspend some child heart surgeries at the UNC-run hospital comes after a report by The New York Times about high death rates
When doctors choose which way to perform common heart surgeries, they're typically stuck with that route -- largely because of location. Operating rooms where doctors perform minimally invasive procedures, maybe using a catheter inserted in the leg or groin to travel through the blood vessels and access the heart, often don't have the X-ray and ultrasound imaging technology or the anesthesia required to change course and perform a full open-heart surgery if the need arises.
A new wrongful death lawsuit filed against Mount Carmel Health System and Dr. William Husel involves a previously unidentified patient. The lawsuit also names two other physicians, a nurse and pharmacist alleging that this patient’s death was hastened by a fatal dose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl.
More than 60 patients who suffered post-surgical infections are suing Denver’s Porter Adventist Hospital over a breach in sterilization procedures, which a state investigation found was far more serious than the hospital divulged a year ago.
Frederick police Sgt. Andrew Alcorn vividly recalls the first time he and another officer told a Frederick couple their son had died in a car crash. Such difficult situations are touched on in training — the subject comes up in the Frederick police academy’s training block on death investigations — but most rookie officers learn much more about how to react by doing what Alcorn did 10 years ago; watching a veteran officer.