Medical Malpractice

After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most frequent cancer seen in American men. Roughly 200,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Early detection increases a man’s likelihood to survive prostate cancer. However, if your doctor failed to diagnose your prostate cancer until aggressive and/or toxic treatment was required, or until it...

Medical malpractice happens when a physician or hospital causes an injury to a patient by a negligent act or omission. The negligence may be from mistakes in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare, or health management. Medical errors can happen to anyone, including well-known entertainers. Let’s look at our last set of celebrities who had issues (and...

With worries that the pandemic would overwhelm hospitals, many states issued calls for “all hands on deck.” In response, many experienced doctors came out of retirement. New doctors were also recruited—those right out of medical school. Here in Michigan, Governor Whitmer and Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Director, Orlene Hawks, recognized the critical need for...

It seems wherever you turn, you hear about worker shortages. This situation exists in pharmacies just like other businesses. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a nationwide shortage of pharmacists, with many pharmacies and drugstores desperately trying to find workers. Now, in addition to filling prescriptions, pharmacy employees must also administer COVID-19 tests and...

In medical malpractice actions in Michigan, attorneys must hire qualified medical practitioners to serve as expert witnesses. Because medical malpractice cases usually involve complicated health and medical issues, medical malpractice experts are asked to testify on the patient’s behalf to provide insight and answers about medical procedures, diagnoses, the standard of care, causation, and...