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VICTORY FOR PLAINTIFF IN SURGICAL MALPRACTICE SUIT
VICTORY FOR PLAINTIFF IN SURGICAL MALPRACTICE SUIT 150 150 Dan Frith

May 14, 2010By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore SunA 53-year-old Harford County woman won a $3.5 million medical malpractice verdict on Thursday against two surgeons and their business, Vascular Surgery Associates.Victoria Little underwent surgery for blocked arteries in 2007, with disastrous results, according to her Baltimore attorneys. She filed a lawsuit…

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LOW BLOOD PRESSURE AFTER SURGERY: WHAT CAN IT MEAN?
LOW BLOOD PRESSURE AFTER SURGERY: WHAT CAN IT MEAN? 150 150 Dan Frith

We review a lot of surgical malpractice cases and one of the items we look at closely is the intra-operative and post-operative blood pressure readings. Blood pressure is a measurement of the “pressure” being exerted on the walls of the blood vessels as the blood passes through the vessel. There…

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VIRGINIA SHOULD NOT FOLLOW GEORGIA: NO STATE SHOULD
VIRGINIA SHOULD NOT FOLLOW GEORGIA: NO STATE SHOULD 150 150 Dan Frith

Georgia is getting ready to make a big mistake! In the past, our southern sister state treated employees fairly in dealing with non-compete agreements. Like Virginia, Georgia courts refused to “blue-pencil” invalid and illegal non-compete agreements. In other words, if the non-compete agreement was too broad and onerous to enforce,…

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ANSWERS TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE / NEGLIGENCE QUESTIONS
ANSWERS TO MEDICAL MALPRACTICE / NEGLIGENCE QUESTIONS 150 150 Dan Frith

A patient asks what he can do after a nurse covered his mouth and gave him medication to knock him out. Is it a case?Read Frith Law Firm’s response. A Mom wonders if she has recourse against a doctor’s office for causing her baby pain during what might be an…

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NONCOMPETES AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
NONCOMPETES AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION 150 150 Dan Frith

Lauren and I have written several articles about doctors and non-compete contracts. (Type in “doctor noncompetes” in the search box in the upper left-hand corner of this page to be directed to those posts. We have also written an article which summarizes the various decisions by Virginia courts which can…

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INFECTIONS AND HOSPITALS: LIKE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY
INFECTIONS AND HOSPITALS: LIKE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY 150 150 Dan Frith

Maybe my attempt to be funny with the title of this post is misplaced. The point I am trying to communicate is that, from our experience, hospitals do a damn poor job of preventing their patients from contracting infections while hospitalized (called hospital-acquired infections). We see it all the time.…

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MEDICAL RECORDS WERE CHANGED
MEDICAL RECORDS WERE CHANGED 150 150 Dan Frith

When someone calls our office with a potential medical malpractice or nursing home abuse case against a Virginia nursing home or hospital, I always tell them we need to review the records.Often times, families will tell me they know the records were changed, altered, forged etc. and that the records…

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10 THINGS YOUR NURSING HOME WILL NOT TELL YOU
10 THINGS YOUR NURSING HOME WILL NOT TELL YOU 150 150 Dan Frith

This is not my title, it is the title of an article from a publication called, SmartMoney. It is a great article and provides some real “truisms” (if that is a word) about the long-term care industry.However, the article does leave out one item of great importance. When admitting a…

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LINKEDIN AND NON-SOLICITATION
LINKEDIN AND NON-SOLICITATION 150 150 Dan Frith

Do you know about LinkedIn.com? It is a business-oriented social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. Lauren and I have our own sites on LinkedIn, and it is estimated that LinkedIn has more than 60 million registered users,…

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DOCTORS AND NON-COMPETES: A PENDING CASE
DOCTORS AND NON-COMPETES: A PENDING CASE 150 150 Dan Frith

We have written numerous blogs on non-competition agreements signed by doctors and other health care professionals (use the search feature above to read those blogs). I just ran across another report of doctors facing the prospect of not being able to care for their patients due to a non-compete agreement…

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