Will the Department of Veterans Affairs finally get it right? Will the federal agency finally stop covering up medical mistakes and poor care? We don't yet know the answer to those questions, but the VA is pledging an overhaul of its reporting policies; an effort it...
VA Hospital Negligence
Sons Say Veteran’s Records Showed He Was Allergic to Drug He Was Given
Studies show that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the United States, and medical errors take many forms.Unfortunately, failure to identify patient allergies and failure to act on test results are two of the most common.The family of an...
Watchdog finds more unsafe practices at VA medical center
Over the past few years, the news media has come to understand that the federal government's Department of Veterans Affairs has more than its share of problems with patient care and safety. One of the VA's most problem-plagued hospitals can be found in Tomah,...
Check yourself out and help prevent skin cancer
No one knows you better than you do. You know which kinds of movies you like, which foods taste good to you and which ones do not, and you know exactly what you look like first thing in the morning and last thing at night.So no one is more qualified than you to keep...
Veteran to Receive More Than $500,000 in Settlement with VA
Failure to diagnose is one form of medical malpractice, but so is failure to inform the patient about medical test results and provide the appropriate treatment.That was the case for a veteran who says his life was shortened because a VA hospital overlooked a test.The...
Understanding Your Legal Options After VA Medical Negligence
Medical malpractice takes many forms, and like other hospitals, VA medical centers are not immune to errors that harm patients. In fact, we've discussed multiple kinds of VA medical malpractice in recent months: Unnecessary surgery Medication errors Failure to...
Are double-booked surgeons higher risks of medical malpractice?
If you are scheduled for surgery at a Veterans Affairs hospital on your back, heart or brain, you are among the patients most likely to have a double-booked surgeon. What is that, you wonder. A doctor who bills twice?No, a double-booked surgeon is one who is doing two...
Medical malpractice: VA staff left sponges inside patient
Virtually everyone agrees that America's veterans deserve the best medical care whether they are treated here in San Antonio or anywhere else around the nation. Unfortunately, Veterans Affairs does not always deliver even standard care.A VA hospital was recently...
Medical residents’ days stretch from 16 hours to 24-hour shifts
This past weekend, 30,000 first-year medical residents began working in hospitals from San Antonio to San Francisco to New York and points in between. As the new doctors began their first rounds, new work rules went into effect that could add 8 hours or even more to...
House passes measure to cap medical malpractice compensation
As we have reported here in our San Antonio legal blog, and countless other have stated in blogs, articles, news reports and editorials across the nation, efforts to cap compensation in medical malpractice litigation hurts one group of people: those who have been...