In Fair Oaks, a suburb of Sacramento, a cardiologist is being accused of negligence by the Medical Board of California. The board, in an accusation filed by the state attorney general’s office, is asking for dicipline that could end in the doctors license being suspended or even revoked in a…
“Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which care provided deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and causes injury to the patient.” That is one definition (Wikipedia) of medical malpractice. Here at the Law Office of Moseley Collins…
On Tuesday, Stephen Sheldon received notification that his medical license was suspended by the Nevada Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Sheldon practiced medicine in Grass Valley, a small community east of Sacramento, California. He was convicted on fraud charges last month. He had been accused of endangering patients by injecting…
California Hospitals have to start cleaning up their act, now that they are being reported for ‘adverse events’. From August 2007 to May 2008 California Hospitals have had 41 different situations where doctors preformed surgery on the wrong body part or the wrong patient. They also discovered that foreign objects…
A young mother in Canada has suffered tremendously due to medical malpractice, specifically neglect from her treating doctors and nurses. Jennie, a 27-year-old mother of a three-year-old and three-month-old, injured her back about five weeks ago. She was taken by an ambulance to the emergency room at a Toronto hospital…
Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans today. In the United States, one-fourth of all Americans have heart disease, accounting for about 64 million people. In our home of Sacramento, California, about 450,000 people suffer from heart disease. Each year, about 7 million people will go to the…
Today I would like to speak to you about a case that’s been on my mind for the past days. A doctor is being charged with “inadequate, irresponsible, inappropriate and sub-standard care” for his delivery of a baby. The result of his negligence caused the baby undue stress and subsequently was…
I read an article today about a woman not far from our Sacramento home in Modesto, CA who underwent a triple bypass surgery. Not to make the paining surgery any easier, upon waking, the woman discovered a serious accident; the surgeon had conducted the operation using a different patient’s angiogram…