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Robot surgery safe for patients?

Kentucky patients who are facing surgery may want to consider a recent media report about an Iowa surgeon who defended robot surgeries despite recalls and several complaints about the da Vinci Surgical System, a set of robotic arms that a surgeon controls via joystick. He claims that during his seven years of using the device, he has never run into any problems that couldn’t be remedied with simple troubleshooting techniques.

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Parents complaint charges doctor and hospital malpractice

Parents in Covington and Kenton, Kentucky are no different from parents anywhere else who want the best medical care for their children and trust their children’s doctors to provide it. Medical mistakes such as a failure to diagnose can occur, but few parents expect doctors to misrepresent a child’s medical condition as parents of an infant with a failing heart recently alleged. A baby diagnosed with a defective heart underwent

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Kentucky physicians struggle in discussing incompetent doctors

By some estimates, mistakes by doctors and other medical professionals are the leading cause of death in Kentucky and other parts of the United States. In some cases, the patients do not know that an error has occurred, but one report asserts that the mistake may have been noticed by other doctors. A recent survey conducted by a professor at the University of Washington’s school of medicine found that, in

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Couple’s organ transplant surgery goes wrong

Kentucky residents may be interested to learn the story of an organ donation that went wrong at a Long Island hospital. When a wife found out she was a perfect match to donate a kidney to her sick husband, she was happy to undergo surgery at North Shore University Hospital. During the transplant surgery, however, a mysterious fluid dripped onto the freshly harvested kidney. As doctors worked to cleanse the

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Tuberculosis scare hits maternity ward; hospital cautions parents

Covington may not be as crowded as Manhattan, but the news that a New York City maternity ward employee may have spread tuberculosis in a busy hospital may have sent chills to new parents all around the country. No cases of wrongful death from TB had been reported, but authorities said that hundreds of newborns were possibly exposed to the deadly disease from the worker, who tested positive for the

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VA hospitals in Kentucky may be subject to fatal errors

Hospital negligence has been blamed for three recent patient deaths at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. These deaths are a part of a series of deaths at VA facilities that may have been preventable. On Oct. 23, the VA released the results of an internal investigation that revealed three patient deaths in 2012 were caused by improper or inadequate care received in the emergency room at the Memphis VA Medical

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Kentucky hospitals may commit errors during surgery

There are reports of foreign objects being left in surgical patients, according to a four-year study conducted by the Mayo Clinic and other institutions that covered 422,526 surgeries. The study found that in one out of every 5,500 surgeries, some type of surgical item was left in the patient. The research also shows that some hospitals are as much as ten times more likely to leave objects in patients than

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Studies reveal interesting facts about hospital care

With all the changes happening in the health care arena in Kentucky and across the nation, some interesting numbers have recently come to light based on studies of the care that U.S. hospitalized patients are receiving. First, up to 400,000 people die in the United States each year in hospitals due to medical errors. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of death, right behind heart disease and cancer.

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Wrongful death may be result of unnecessary stent implants

Patients from Covington, Kentucky, that could have been a part of the seven million Americans who received cardiac stent implants over the past 10 years may be interested to know of recent disheartening discoveries made about the devices. Stents being the go-to surgery has led some critics to wonder if the devices are being overused due to a kind of hospital malpractice, with surgeons enriching themselves at the expense of

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Medical mistakes could cause 440,000 deaths yearly

A study released in 1999 reported that medical errors in Kentucky and across the nation claimed the lives of nearly 100,000 people annually. However, a study published in the Sept. 2013 Journal of Patient Safety reported that those numbers could actually be closer to 440,000 patients, or more than 1,000 people per day, who die from hospital mistakes or negligence each year. The updated figures mean that medical mistakes now

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Hospital caused infections declining

Kentucky residents heading to the hospital are safer now. Hospitals are doing better at protecting their patients from preventable infections. According to a new study, infections patients catch in hospitals cost the health care system about $9.8 billion per year now. That amount is down from the $20 to $40 billion it previously cost to treat such infections. However, one of the study’s authors said hospitals can still do more

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Kentucky man allegedly misdiagnosed with HIV files suit

A U.S. veteran from Kentucky was allegedly misdiagnosed with HIV in 2004. Since the diagnosis, the man has been on powerful medications, felt suicidal, and has been with HIV-positive partners. The misdiagnosis was allegedly the result of a string of hospital errors. The man’s original diagnosis was called into question in 2012 when he applied to the Veterans Administration for benefits. A valid diagnosis was needed as part of the

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