The Lawrence Firm Blog

When it comes to medical malpractice, you may not consider doctor-patient confidentiality as part of the equation. But actually, when broken, that confidentiality can become the centerpiece of a malpractice claim or an invasion of privacy claim. To better understand this, let’s take a look at doctor-patient confidentiality and see how this principle of the medical world functions. Doctor-patient confidentiality is a simple premise. It states that the relationship between

Four hundred miles due south of Covington, a jury recently decided in favor of a woman who suffered internal damage during a routine gallbladder operation. The jury agreed that the woman should receive nearly $11 million from the surgical team and medical center where the botched surgical procedure took place. The medical malpractice case began in 2012 when the woman went to a northern Georgia medical center for what was

If you drive south from Covington for 7 hours, you come to Clayton County, Georgia. It is perhaps most famous in fiction as the setting of Tara, the home of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind.” The suburban Atlanta county is also where a customer service representative recently waited for three days as a jury contemplated her medical malpractice claims against two surgeons and their practice. The service rep’s

As patients, we put our trust in our doctors, especially when those doctors are about to use anesthesia. After all, as we drift off, we are leaving everything in their control, trusting that things will turn out. Most of the time it works out just fine. But one man east of Covington found out what his doctor really talked about while he was under anesthesia. Using his cellphone, he recorded