Sublingual fentanyl sprays which are marketed and sold by Insys Therapeutics, Inc. have come under investigation recently. The pain medication is used in cancer patients and listed as a Schedule II controlled substance. Insys Therapeutics is under investigation for paying and providing improper benefits to doctors who were prescribing the drug. Insys has in the […]
Category Archives: Medical malpractice
Healthcare professionals have a duty to treat their patients with reasonable care. What happens if the doctor prescribes painkilling medication that leads to an opiate addiction? Is the doctor responsible? With the opiate crisis in the United States reaching pandemic proportion as a result of over-prescribing prescription drugs, medical malpractice lawsuits present an alternative for […]
Each medical malpractice case is unique. One patient may be prescribed the wrong medication or the wrong dose of medication. Another patient might undergo surgery, only to find out that the surgery was performed on the wrong side of their body. Whatever the medical error in any given case, it is possible that serious injury […]
Former Jacksonville basketball legend Rex Morgan recently died of oral cancer. His widow has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his doctor and against Quest Diagnostics, alleging that they failed to identify the cancer before it was too late for it to be treated. It is her hope that this lawsuit will generate awareness of […]
A 2015 survey conducted by Medscape reveals the most common causes of medical malpractice. Nearly four thousand primary care physicians and specialists participated in the survey. Survey participants were fairly evenly distributed among age groups, but there were a much larger number of male participants (70%) than female participants (30%). One of the things that […]
