For people who are ill, the sound of silence can be a healing absence of distracting noise. Unfortunately, as anyone who has been hospitalized in Covington or Cincinnati can tell you, hospitals are anything but quiet. As hospital administrators, doctors, and others try to find ways to reduce the risk of medical malpractice, they are looking more carefully at factors such as noise that can be detrimental to healing. A
Some readers of our Covington medical malpractice blog will recall a post we published back in October on an Indiana cardiologist. The New York Times had run a thought-provoking investigative piece on a doctor who retired in 2014, leaving behind hundreds of angry and injured former patients. A more recent article in a legal journal gave us more details on the disturbing allegations against the heart doctor. Nearly 300 people
There are two sides to the stethoscope debate: those doctors who say the listening device is dead or dying and those physicians who say the instruments are still useful and are likely to be important for years to come. No matter which side of the debate your Covington doctor is aligned with, it’s likely that he or she agrees that many medical personnel aren’t as good with the devices as
It’s a little over an hour’s drive north from Covington to find the suburban home of a retired Air Force colonel who is waiting to hear the Ohio Supreme Court rule on his medical malpractice case. The high court won’t be deciding whether or not the former colonel and airline pilot was harmed by a negligent surgeon, but whether or not he waited too long to file his claim against
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