On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Oct 26, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Each day, patients go and see a doctor because they’re not feeling well yet fail to get the answers that they’re looking for. Others will go into the hospital to have a surgical procedure performed on them yet come out feeling worse than they originally...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Sep 21, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Symptoms rarely are unique to a single medical condition, but instead can be associated with a variety of illnesses. Unless a doctor asks enough probing questions in an attempt to distinguish between whether a patient is suffering from one condition or another, then...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Aug 17, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Convergys, a Boston based provider of medical malpractice insurance, released a report this month in which they content that as much as 15 percent of all negligence claims may be related to radiology errors. They also highlighted how the most common condition...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Jun 29, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
An estimated 40 million procedures requiring anesthesia are performed in the United States each year. Data compiled by the Institute of Medicine also shows that there are 1.5 million Advert Drug Events (ADEs), or intraventional drug injuries, that occur in the country...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Jun 8, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Some might say that getting sued for malpractice comes with the territory when you’re a doctor. That’s at least what American Medical Association (AMA) researchers found to be the case when they recently surveyed a random sampling of their physician...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | May 4, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University published data in 2017 showing that one in every 20 Americans will be misdiagnosed with an incorrect medical condition at some point during their life. Another statistic they released that same year showed that a quarter of a...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Apr 6, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Instances of medical malpractice are increasing across the United States. It’s believed that increased demand for medical services can be blamed for this. As more demands are placed on the health care system, physicians and other medical providers become...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Mar 29, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
When you go to the doctor, you likely go with some basic expectations. You probably expect the facilities to be clean and the physicians to be qualified, for instance. You likely also expect that any information you share with your doctor will be documented properly...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Mar 9, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
Proving that your doctor engaged in medical malpractice is not easily done. There are many circumstances that may lead to a patient’s medical condition declining that have little to do with a doctor’s misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of them. Surgical...
On Behalf of Williams, Walsh & O'Connor, LLC | Feb 9, 2018 | Firm News, Medical Malpractice
A medical investigator working with the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC) recently filed a report with administrators expressing concern over the quality of care one state inmate received while locked up. In his report, he highlights how the inmate,...