New York Medical Malpractice

Newsweek highlights the issues plaguing the psychiatric hospital system that lead to the death of Brooklyn resident Esmin Green.  According to the article, poor handling of patients and extreme wait times were not uncommon in what is known as the G Building at Kings County Hospital, including the falsifying of documents to hide massive overcrowding [...]

Outbursts and other forms of verbal abuse from doctors towards other employees of hospitals is becoming a big problem, especially as it relates to medial malpractice cases. The Joint Commission, which is a national hospital accrediting agency, now claims that evidence of such behavior is pointing to more and more medical errors.

Dr. Mark Chassin, [...]

Much has been said in the blawgosphere recently regarding the negligent death of Esmin Green as she waited to be treated at Kings County Hospital. Ms. Green, a Brooklyn resident, had been waiting over 24 hours to be treated when she collapsed to the floor and was unattended to for over an hour. Several staff [...]

In a recent report released by New York state Department of Health, it was found that New Yorkers who underwent surgery in the state developed infections at a larger rate than the rest of the country. The study found the percentage to be an overwhelming 37% more infections than any other state.

"The only acceptable [...]

Michael Rosenberg released the following in an effort to promote positive legislation:
“With just four days remaining before the Superintendent of Insurance is set to impose another exorbitant increase to the already unaffordable cost of medical liability insurance, physicians across New York State are urging the State Legislature to return to Albany to take action to [...]

In New York and places like Indiana the problem of negligence is significant to the issue of medical malpractice. For instance, the NWI Times reports:
Chris and Karen Bartzis accepted a $1.25 million settlement last month from the Indiana Patient’s Compensation Fund and Munster-based pediatrician Azra Sheriff in connection with their son’s death. The now-divorced [...]

Current negotiations for medical malpractice reform are delaying the release of the newest malpractice rates. The New York Sun highlights:
The state’s insurance superintendent, Eric Dinallo, is holding off on raising medical malpractice insurance rates pending negotiations on ways to reform the state’s malpractice system, the insurance department announced yesterday.
When rates for 2008-09 are determined, [...]

Medical malpractice rates are a cost of doing business for doctors and look to be going up according to the New York Sun:
New York physicians are asking for a moratorium on a medical malpractice insurance rate hike that state insurance officials are expected to announce next week.
The rates, set each year by the state’s Insurance [...]