At all phases of medical treatment, surgeons in Kentucky have a fiduciary duty. That’s the highest level of legal responsibility. Doctors and other professionals, like stock brokers and accountants, must completely disregard their own financial and nonfinancial...
Most Common Hospital Infections in Kentucky
Generally, people go to hospitals because they are sick or injured, and they expect to recover from their illness or injury. However, many people get worse instead of better. Roughly one in twenty hospital patients develop a serious infection during their stays. These...
Common Infant Brain Injuries in Lexington
The average newborn baby in Kentucky weighs about seven pounds. That’s not much heavier than a two-liter bottle of soda. So, during birth, if a doctor uses enough force on a baby’s head to unscrew the top of a Coke bottle, that pressure could cause a permanent brain...
Help! The Doctor Used the HELPER Mnemonic!
Partially because of the prevalence of birth injuries, the United States has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. Doctors usually have very little time to react to delivery room emergencies. Like many of us, when the pressure is on and the clock is...
Local Woman Claims Fertility Doctor Abused Her
According to court documents, a Lexington doctor fertilized a woman’s eggs with his own sperm, although she did not consent to this procedure. A Kentucky woman said she visited a fertility specialist in 1988. The doctor claimed that the sperm donor was a 24-year-old...
Birth Injuries: A Closer Look
Some people are very cool under pressure. In March of 2000, a mom in Oaxaca performed a C-section on herself. After Inés Ramírez Pérez had been in pain for about twelve hours, and almost immediately after she downed three shots of liquor, she used a kitchen knife to...
A Closer Look at Anesthesia Negligence
Anesthesia is an important component of the roughly 60 million surgical procedures which take place in the United States every year. Since anesthesiologists play such a vital role in the surgical care process, they also have a very high duty of care, just like all...
Birth Injuries: Does the HELPERR Mnemonic Really Help?
The HELPERR mnemonic, which is examined below, helps doctors and nurses deal with shoulder dystocia emergencies. If the baby is too big to drift through the mother’s narrow birth canal, the umbilical cord could essentially strangle the baby in about five minutes....
What is Medical Malpractice?
In this context, “malpractice” is another word for “negligence,” which is a lack of care. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, and most other professionals generally have a fiduciary duty. Physicians undergo years of training and patients usually have no medical knowledge...
Obtaining Compensation in a Nursing Home Bedsore Claim
The roots of today’s pressure ulcer claims usually go back to 2015. In that year, Medicaid allowed individual states, including Kentucky, to switch to a Fee for Service model. This program reimburses providers flat rates for certain kinds of services. As a result,...
