November 14, 2011
As the following article reminds us, injuries and complications that might be avoided with better care can and do happen to patients, even in good hospitals, and even in hospitals staffed by the most dedicated and well-trained personnel. That includes the health care centers of the U.S. Armed For... Read More
October 14, 2011
By: Joe Callahan
We just reached a settlement with the United States in a particularly sad case. The claim involved the death of a 67 year old veteran who was a patient of the VA health care system. The VA’s records showed that, after undergoing biopsy of a sore on his neck in 2004, more than four years passed b... Read More
September 15, 2011
By: Joe Callahan
Not all that that long ago I was representing a veteran in connection with a claim for delayed diagnosis of colon cancer. Like far too many vets, his VA primary care clinic had done a slap-dash job of providing regular colon cancer screening. Although he was 66 years old, he had never received or... Read More
July 6, 2011
The following article appeared on www.wsmv.com on May 29, 2011: At least 13,000 U.S. veterans have been warned in the past two years that their blood should be tested for potentially fatal infections after possible exposures by improper hygiene practices at five VA hospitals in Tennessee, Ohio,... Read More
June 1, 2011
By: Rawls, McNelis & Mitchell
The following was written by Bill Sizemore in The Virginian-Pilot, March 27, 2011: When the Virginia Board of Medicine reprimanded Dr. David Ostman in 2004 for posing a danger to the health and welfare of his patients, it included one reassuring note. He had closed his private practice and been... Read More
May 3, 2011
BRADENTON, Fla. Veterans, military families and others who oppose a decades-old law that shields military medical personnel from malpractice lawsuits are rallying around a case they consider the best chance in a generation to change the widely unpopular protection.The U.S. Supreme Court has asked... Read More
