NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — Two more patients of Dr. Keith Ablow have filed lawsuits against the renowned Massachusetts psychiatrist alleging he pressured them into sexual relationships. The Boston Globe reports that the medical malpractice lawsuits filed Thursday allege Ablow lured the women he was treating for depression into degrading situations. In this June 4, 2009 file…(Read More)
Have you ever tried to pronounce the names of some prescription medications? They’re not only hard to say, many of them are spelled similarly and yet their applications and effects can be completely different. Errors in medications happen thousands of times all across country, usually because of a mix-up at a pharmacy, but…(Read More)
An eight-person jury ordered Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to pay $2 million in damages to a former patient of fugitive spine surgeon Atiq Durrani, MD. The jury found the hospital guilty of acting with malice by allowing Dr. Durrani to perform an improper or medically unnecessary spinal surgery on Jacob Cotter, then 12, in…(Read More)
An Ohio jury recently sided with an elderly man in his medical malpractice lawsuit, awarding $636,000 in damages. Following a roughly one-week trial, the jury found that Dr. David C. Stachel was negligent in his care and treatment of Russell Johnson. In 2013, 40 lawsuits claiming medical negligence were filed before rising to…(Read More)
Late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell’s widow Vicki has filed a medical malpractice suit against his doctor, claiming that Dr. Robert Koblin “negligently and repeatedly” prescribed Cornell “dangerous mind-altering controlled substances… which impaired [his] cognition, clouded his judgment and caused him to engage in dangerous impulsive behaviors that he was unable to control, costing…(Read More)