The Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. are happy to announce that this Friday, December 2, marks the beginning of the holiday house tours taking place in Philadelphia.

Fairmount Park is putting on it’s annual Holiday Tours for two weeks during the month of December. Six historic homes in the neighborhood will be open for guided tours. The houses will have holiday decorations displayed throughout and there will be a guide at each home to take guests on the tour.

The houses included in this year’s tour are Laurel and Lemon Hill, Cedar Grove, Sweetbriar, Mount Pleasant and Woodford Mansion. Reservations for the tours are not necessary and there is parking provided at each location.

For more information regarding holiday tours in the Philadelphia area, please visit the Philly Tour website today.

A hospital is being sued after transplanting a kidney that was infected with hepatitis C from one person to the other.

The couple is claiming that the transplant took place even though the hospital received the medical tests determining that the kidney contained the hepatitis C disease. The tests were completed several months prior to the actual transplant and they are citing negligence in their lawsuit due to the fact that no one noticed the results of the tests.

The woman who was diagnosed with hepatitis C wasn’t notified of this condition until a month after the actual transplant at which time she was offered the option of keeping it a secret from her partner.

During the investigation of this case, the transplant division of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was shut down.

The hospital has recognized it’s mistake and claims it to be a medical as well as human error.

If you or someone you know has been the victim of medical malpractice, please contact the Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 610-667-7511 today.

A West Virginia hospital and three physicians are being sued because of medical malpractice that resulted in a wrongful death.

Leslie Connolly filed the lawsuit in Monogalia Circuit Court after her husband, Joseph Connolly, died last month from an overdose on methadone that was given to him by his doctors. Potomac Valley Hospital, West Virginia University Medical Corporation, and Drs. Joy E. Cousins, James Abel, and Tamer Gaber were named as defendants in the lawsuit.

As stated in the lawsuit, Dr. Cousins, who assumed Connolly was already taking methadone daily, gave the patient a 40 mg dosage of the drug. The next day, Dr. Gaber prescribed 50 mg of methadone when Connolly was transferred to Potomac Valley Hospital.

It was determined that Connolly died from an overdose of methadone which resulted in anoxic encephalopathy. According to The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, the number of deaths related to methadone overdoses increased from 790 to 3,849 between the years 1999 and 2004.

If you have lost a loved one due to a pharmaceutical error which resulted in wrongful death, contact the Pennsylvania wrongful death attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., by calling 610-667-7511 today.

A Maryland jury awarded $2.5 million to a family involved in a medical malpractice lawsuit.

59-year-old Lawrence Dixon went in to Montgomery General Hospital for treatment after falling and breaking his pelvis in May of 2007. Two days later, Dixon died. Dr. David Harding, who was Dixon’s primary care physician, failed to diagnose the man as suffering from hemorrhagic shock, leading to the filing of the lawsuit.

Dixon’s family believes that his life could have been saved had the doctor noticed the internal bleeding that was causing his organs to fail. According to a lawyer for the family, there were many signs that should have caught Dr. Harding’s attention, including the fact that Dixon had gone 24 hours without producing urine.

$1 million in non-economic damages has been awarded to Dixon’s wife and his estate, and each of his two children received $250,000.

If you have lost a loved one due to hospital or physician negligence, contact the Pennsylvania medical malpractice attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., by calling 610-667-7511.