Maryland Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog

According to the National Patient Safety Benchmarking Center, the most common non-surgical medical errors are medication mistakes, medical treatments, patient falls, and nosocomial infections. Also in the list were errors leading to cardiopulmonary arrest and embolisms, mistakes in IV medications, and medical errors involved in catheter ruptures, leaking of blood or clear fluids, and perforations of the heart.

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Jury Verdict Research reports on recovery probabilities in the following types of medical malpractice case:

Foreign Object Left in Body 66%
Postsurgical Infection 43%
Catheterization 39%
Failed Sterilization 35%
Lack of Informed Consent 25%

Certainly, our Maryland malpractice lawyers have seen a rise in the number of complaints of post surgery infections, usually against hospitals involving staph infections. I'm also surprised at how low the likelihood of recovery is in informed consent cases. I have to think that this figure is deflated by jurisdictions that require look at informed consent from the perspective of what a prudent doctor would say to a patient receiving similar medical treatment as opposed to what a patient would expect.

Three editorials/letters to the editor from the Baltimore Sun of interest to Maryland malpractice lawyers:

Robert E. Oshel on February 25, 2009

Wayne Willoughby on February 27, 2009

Dr. Nancy H. Nielsen on March 4, 2009

Dr Nielsen points out that a recent Harvard study shows that 40% of malpractice cases involve no medical error. In other words, 60% do. Maryland malpractice lawyers win on 11% of medical malpractice cases that go to a jury. Does this evidence tell us we need to limit juries because they are unreasonable? I find it odd this would be raised by an advocate of malpractice caps.