New York Medical Malpractice

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 members of the hospital were caught on surveillance tape walking right past the woman even as she was laying unconscious on the ground. When she was finally attended to, she was pronounced dead.

A couple from New York recently won a medical malpractice suit filed against a doctor whose mistake allegedly led to the man’s stroke.

The husband and wife were reportedly awarded $1.87 million in the suit.

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A surgeon at Brockton Hospital in Boston has been accused of negligence in several surgical error cases; however, many are questioning why she is still allowed to practice.

This week, the surgeon was found to be partially responsible for the death of a patient in 2001 and she has reportedly already made payments in two other malpractice cases within the past decade.

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