Today Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York, opened its new $7.6 million orthopedics unit. The new unit, located on the hospital’s sixth floor, will care for patients recuperating from knee, hip (including hip and knee replacements) and spine surgery. The Hospital’s old orthopedics unit on the fourth floor provided…
New York medical malpractice attorneys,, like medical malpractice lawyers all over the U.S., are often blamed for high health care costs and other woes. But are they really to blame? No! This past November 2009, the American Association of Justice (AAJ) published a bulletin titled “Five Myths about Medical Malpractice“.…
Prescription errors and medication mistakes are as common in Central New York, including Syracuse, Auburn and Geneva, New York, as anywhere else in the United States. Every year they cause about a million deaths and injuries in the U.S. Prescription-error lawyers in New York, and everywhere for that matter, know…
On Tuesday, November 24, I took my two children (Sebastian, 12 and Nico, 10) to get their H1NI flu vaccination at the Bristol Field House at Hobart William Smith College in Geneva, Ontario County, New York, where we live. Although I firmly believe this was the right decision, I can…
The Institute of Medicine reported a decade ago that as many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in hospitals in the U.S. every year from medical errors. At Michaels Bersani Kalabanka we handle many medical malpractice actions involving injured patients from the Syracuse, Auburn, and Geneva, New York areas, as…
I recently read an article entitled “Deadly Mistakes that Plague Hospitals” by William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. According to the article, there are 400,000 preventable drug-related injuries every year and there is a 1-in-30 chance that your prescription will be filled out wrong. A lot of these are blamed on…