Category : Practice Areas

St. Petersburg, FL (March 24, 2020) – On March 1, 2020, runner Justin Doyle collapsed on the Skyway bridge during a 10K marathon. Bystanders rushed to help Doyle and called out to two emergency vehicles within sight. However, the 48-year-old runner failed to receive the medical attention that he needed due to confusion between the emergency crews. According to St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue Lt. Steven Lawrence, both crews through the other had already sent...

What kills more Americans than heart disease and cancer? The answer may surprise you: medical errors by doctors, nurses, and other hospital workers. Medical Errors Kill Between 250,000 and 400,000 Americans died because of medical mistakes in only one year, according to a study published by Johns Hopkins University. Those numbers make medical mistakes the third leading cause of death in the US. Doctors’ most common mistake is misdiagnosing a patient’s illness. Twelve million people...

Patients seek medical care from their physicians in order to have a problem treated and hopefully cured. When a patient receives a misdiagnosis, negative impacts can snowball. In fact, diagnostic error is becoming the most prevalent medical malpractice issue in the United States. What Is a Diagnostic Error? Diagnostic error is the misdiagnosis or the delay of an accurate diagnosis. Failure to diagnose puts the patient at risk for developing complications for inadequate and inaccurate...

When emergency medical care is needed, patients rely on the skill and attention of the emergency department of the hospital. Medical problems can be made worse if medical malpractice occurs. Though first responders, such as paramedics, ambulance crews, EMTs, and firefighters, are generally exempt from medical malpractice liability, the emergency room staff is not similarly protected. In fact, emergency room staff operates under the same protection as the other medical staff in the hospital. What...