In October 2007, then 31-year old Tina Holstein gave birth to her third child at Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York.  After the delivery, Holstein felt ill and began to vomit.  A nurse at the hospital decided to administer an intramuscular injection to help Holstein feel better, however later she began to feel that the injection had caused permanent damage to her sciatic nerve.

Holstein pursed a lawsuit against the nurse who administered the injection and Community General Hospital for failing to correctly administer the injection causing permanent injury.  The suit against the nurse was dropped, but Holstein was awarded $1.69 million in damages from the hospital.

If you or someone you love has been the victim of medical malpractice, contact the Philadelphia medical negligence attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to learn more about your rights.

A recent study in the medical journal Chest, showed that obese men and women going to the hospital for breathing troubles were four times more likely to be misdiagnosed with asthma.

Researchers found that 150 of 500 obese patients who say they were diagnosed with asthma found out they did not have  it after having objective lung-function testing.  That is a 30 percent chance of misdiagnosis.  Furthermore, researchers believe that one of the major reasons for the misdiagnosis is failing to use spirometry testing.  Spirometry is a standard lung function test that is often is not even executed before diagnosing asthma.  In addition, they believe that obese patients are more likely to have symptoms similar to asthma symptoms, like breathlessness and chest tightening.

Researchers suggest that patients follow up with a primary care physician to receive the appropriate testing.

If you or someone you love has been the victim of misdiagnosis, contact the Philadelphia misdiagnosis attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to learn more about your rights.

The California Medical Board has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the fertility doctor who performed in vitro treatments on infamous “Octomom” Nadya Suleman.  The board is trying to have Dr. Michael Kamrava’s medical license revoked after implanting too high a number of embryos into another patient.

Dr. Kamrava implanted seven embryos into a 48-year old woman, which the board considers to have put her at “great risk”.  The woman already had three children when she started in vitro treatments with Dr. Kamrava.  Out of the seven embryos, four developed into fetuses, three were born, and one died in the womb.

If you or someone you love has been the victim of medical malpractice, contact the Philadelphia medical malpractice attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to learn more about your rights.

A West Virginia woman and her husband are suing a surgeon and medical device manufacturer involved in her pelvic organ prolapse surgery.

In 2007, Betty Adkins had surgery performed by Dr. Mitchell E. Nutt at St. Mary’s Medical Center for her pelvic organ prolapse.  Dr. Nutt inserted an Avaulta Plus Anterior and Posterior BioSynthetic Support System produced by C.R. Bard in Adkins.  Since the surgery, Adkins complains she has suffered serious mental and physical pain including permanent and substantial physical deformity and loss of a bodily organ.

Adkins and her husband believe C.R. Bard practiced negligence in the design, manufacturing, marketing, labeling, and packaging and selling of the medical device.  Furthermore, they believe Nutt was negligent in his advocation and use of the product.

If you or someone you love has suffered from post-surgical complications, contact the Philadelphia post-surgical complications lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to learn more about your rights.

The Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Gary Kao are facing five medical malpractice lawsuits for botched radiation therapy in five veteran patients.

The veterans filing suit, Richard Mitchell, John Berry, James Armstrong, Barry Lackro, and Donald Pepper, were under Dr. Kao’s care at the cancer unit of Philadelphia VA Medical Center.  Philadelphia VA Medical Center treats U.S. military veterans in Southern Pennsylvania.  They believe that Dr. Kao improperly treated their cancer through a process called brachytherapy.

The U.S. Nuclear Radiation Commission investigated Dr. Kao and the hospital’s cancer unit and found that of 114 cancer patients seen, Dr. Kao only got the therapy right 16 times.  Dr. Kao was later terminated from his position and the cancer unit was shut down.

This past May, the NRC fined the hospital $227,500.

Since his treatment, Lacko’s cancer returned and is now incurable.

If your or someone you love has been the victim of medical malpractice, contact the Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130 to learn more about your rights.