Insights On Medical Negligence Issues From The Perth Area And Throughout Australia
Happy new year to all!
As can be gathered, my resolution about more regular blog posts, has already gone by the by..
Anyhow, while recharging over the Christmas break, I came across the following article which interested me and takes the often held comparison between health care and the aviation industry, a step further…
Who would…
Thanks to my friend + colleague Bill Madden for his interesting report on the most recent report as to incidence of medical negligence litigation in Australia – see here for his report.
As this shows, the number of claims is relatively stable and very modest indeed. As no doubt Bill would agree, this report …
Interested talk at the recent annual ALA medical negligence conference in Sydney at which a stroke expert discussed the recently published large study of stroke treatment outcomes.
Such study clearly demonstrated the benefits, in terms of survival chances, of giving patients of any age thrombolytic treatment, if attending:
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I was interested (and a little horrified) to read the recent coverage of the South Australian Coroner’s findings concerning 3 foetal deaths in SA, associated with home birth in ‘non-low-risk pregnancies’ (1 at least involving a breech presentation). See for example here. Soberingly + tragically the Coroner found that in each case, had the…
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has published another of its annual reports, providing statistics on public and private sector medical indemnity claims in Australia. These cover the 2009 year. Interesting reading..
Total ‘new’ claims in the year totalled 2,600, roughly equally split between public v private medical care.
The more interesting figures came…
Was interested to read in the West of the James Cook Uni study to follow up outcomes and attitudes (after the event) of women choosing vaginal -v- elective caesarean section.
While I defer to the experts, the more information and hard evidence, rather than ‘old wives tales’ and medical-politics, assisting women to make health decision relating…
As a post-script to the recent resolution of my client’s claim against a travel agency, promoting Thai cosmetic surgery, I now have to drive each day past a massive billboard on Railway Rd, Subiaco, promoting the services of another such agency. Clearly its a thriving business sector…
To protect those uninformed enough to think that…
Following on a recent post, in recent days I have again been reminded of how jaundiced my perspective on medical care is and how the great majority of careful, skilled medical practitioners "fly under the radar," in my world of medical litigation.
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Odd and uncomfortable territory for a lawyer to touch upon…
As is now a matter of public record, I act for Saba Button and her parents in relation to her claim arising because of her terrible complications from the flu-vax in 2010.
There has been recent media interest in the fact an approach has been…
Working yesterday and today on a very tragic case for the family of a young women who died after weight-loss surgery, in 2007.
The women underwent a sleeve gastrectomy, one of the 2 most common forms of weight-loss (or bariatric) surgery, performed in Australia today.
While working on the case, I thought it worth sharing…
