Insights On Medical Negligence Issues From The Perth Area And Throughout Australia
I recently attended the AvMA conference in the UK. AvMA is one of the UK’s peak bodies in medical negligence (or clinical negligence as they call it), law.
I would recommend the conference to anyone working in this area on the patient side. Although there are inevitable differences, there is considerable overlap and perhaps warning…
In Varipatis v. Almario [2013] NSWCA 76, the New South Wales Court of Appeal reversed the trial judge’s finding in favor of an obese patient alleging negligence on the part of his general practitioner in failing to refer him for weight loss surgery.
The trial decision, which on any assessment was generous to the plaintiff…
As has been widely reported we recently acted on behalf of the family of Julienne McKay-Hall the woman who tragically died following weight loss surgery. As reported, the Coroner’s findings are a scathing condemnation of both the relevant surgeon Dr Ahmad’s care and that of nursing staff at St John of God Hospital in Murdoch. …
As part of the process of interviewing for a new solicitor to join the firm, I have reflected on the types of case we have recently been instructed in and those areas of medicine that are emerging as fertile areas for claim. Traditionally, major repeat areas of work continue to be gynaecology, GP care, neurosurgery…
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…
