Arkansas is a beautiful state in which to live. Unfortunately, the healthcare system in the state could use some improvement. As with every profession, there are great doctors, and unfortunately some that aren’t. Arkansas consistently ranks at the bottom of national polls that take into account factors like availability of…
Suspected medical malpractice at an Arkansas doctor’s office led to at least seven misdiagnoses and potentially one fatality. That’s the latest from a wide-ranging investigation into Arkansas’s ailing Veteran’s Administration medical care system that has the whole nation watching. In 2016 potential unsafe practices were reported to officials at the…
Patients Suffering from Inadequate Care May Soon Have More Legal Options Available to Prove Malpractice In a groundbreaking decision a Pulaski County circuit judge has ruled that a long-standing law that has protected doctors from giving damning testimony at their own malpractice trials in Arkansas is unconstitutional. The law currently…
I recently read a news account of a Tennessee couple that delivered a healthy baby boy at the University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tennessee. While in the hospital, one day after his birth, a nurse encouraged the mother to put her newborn in the nursery so she could get some…
Medical malpractice is defined as: In treating a patient, a medical care provider must possess and apply with reasonable care the degree of skill and learning ordinarily possessed and used by members of his/her profession in good standing, engaged in the same type of service or specialty in the locality…
I recently read a story from California about a little girl who was forced to wait for treatment in an ER for over five hours. According to the story, the family’s ordeal began on a Sunday morning in early December, when the normally rambunctious girl developed a fever and became…
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled February 12, 2009 that a 2007 state law which allowed charitable hospitals’ risk pools to be sued directly should be applied retroactively. For over 100 years, Arkansas has recognized the doctrine of charitable immunity. Unfortunately, this doctrine affects the rights of injured victims of hospital…