The fertility doctor who treated Nadya Suleman, better known as the “Octomom”, has been accused of medical malpractice by the California Medical Board.

According to court documents, the California Medical Board filed a lawsuit against Dr. Michael Kamrava this week for implanting a 48 year-old woman with seven embryos, a number that the board said put her at “great risk.” The board is recommeding the doctor’s license be revoked or suspended.

The woman is in her late 40s and already had three adult children when she started in vitro treatments with Dr. Kamvara. Of the seven embryos implanted, only four developed into fetuses, three of whom were born. The fourth fetus died in the womb. The medical board said Kamvara demonstrated “gross negligence” and that his actions led to “catastrophic results.”

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A woman in Cabell County, Florida is suing C.R. Bard and a Huntington surgeon for defective medical devices implanted into her during surgery.

According to a complaint filed in Cabell Circuit Court, Dr. Mitchell E. Nutt performed surgery on Betty Adkins at St. Marys Medical Center on November 26, 2007. The lawsuit contends that during the surgery Nutt implanted an Avaulta Plus Anterior and Posterior BioSynthetic Support System into Adkins to treat her vaginal prolapse. Adkins claims the devices were designed, manufactured marketed, packaged, labeled, and sold by C.R. Bard.

The lawsuit claims that, as a result of the implanted devices, Adkins experienced significant mental and physical pain and suffering, sustained permanent injury, permanent and substantial physical deformity, and loss of a bodily organ.

Adkins is seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

The medical negligence lawsuit has been assigned to Circuit Judge David M. Pancake.

Five separate medical malpractice lawsuits have been filed against the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctor, by veterans who say they were victims of botched radiation therapy.

The lawsuits were filed in federal court by Richard Mitchell, James Armstrong, John Berry, Barry Lackro, and Donald Pepper, who all claim Dr. Gary Kao and his cancer unit at the VA hospital provided substandard medical care while administering brachytherapy. The men are only five of at least 98 veterans that investigators say received botched radiation treatments at the center.

Brachytherapy uses radioactive metal “seeds”, which are placed inside the prostate with needles. The seeds create a cloud of radiation that conforms to the prostate and attacks cancerous cells.

Investigators reported a number of incidents where patients received weak radiation doses at the VA hospital as well as cases where the metal seeds were inserted into the wrong locations, such as the bladder or rectum.

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A jury in New Haven, Connecticut has awarded $2.45 million to the estate of a woman who claimed botched cancer treatments damaged her same-sex relationship.

According to court documents, Margaret Mueller and Charlotte Stacey sued two doctors in 2006, alleging they treated Mueller for ovarian cancer when she actually had cancer of the appendix. Attorneys for the women say the lawsuit was the first of its kind – filed under Connecticut’s civil unions law. But the claim that the botched surgery damaged their relationship was thrown out because the couple was not married then.

A jury in Stamford Superior Court awarded $2.45 million to the estate of Mueller for the botched cancer treatment. Mueller’s attorney applauded the verdict and said he would appeal the decision throwing out the civil union claim, thereby allowing Stacey to sue.

If you or someone you love has suffered injury because of hospital error or medical negligence, you may be eligible for compensation and legal recourse. Contact the Pennsylvania surgical error attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 610-667-7511.

A woman in Virginia has been awarded a $3 million verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit.

According to court documents, Shannon E. Taylor alleged that Dr. Katherine Averill and Winchester Womancare were “negligently, grossly negligently, and recklessly breached [their] duty of care to [the] plaintiff.” The lawsuit pertained to a laparoscopically-assisted vaginal hysterectomy performed on Taylor in April 2009. The suit claimed that “Dr. Averill used material from Taylor’s anterior rectal wall rather than peritoneal tissue to restore the vaginal cuff following the removal of her uterus. As a result, Taylor sustained lacerations and injuries to the anterior rectal wall and rectum.”

The jury awarded Taylor $3 million in damages plus legal interest. A statutory cap on medical malpractice damages will limit Taylor’s award to $1.5 million.

If you or someone you love has suffered injury because of hospital error or medical negligence, you may be eligible for compensation and legal recourse. Contact the Pennsylvania surgical error lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 610-667-7511.

A jury in South Carolina returned a $3 million verdict against a Myrtle Beach-area hospital and doctor in a medical negligence lawsuit.

According to court documents, Sean Fay filed a lawsuit against Grand Strand Regional Medical Center and Dr. Stephen Law over the death of his wife Kelly in 2002. The lawsuit contended that Fay was admitted to Grand Strand in January 2002 with complaints of stomach and back pain. Fay was discharged later that day however, after Law diagnosed her as having a kidney stone, prescribed pain medication and ordered her to return to the hospital two days later. Fay died of septic shock less than 48 hours later before she could meet her appointment.

The Horry County jury determined that both the hospital and Dr. Law were negligent in their treatment of Fay by failing to follow nationally recognized standards of medical care.

Hospital officials said, in a statement, that they disagreed with the jury’s decision and believe Fay was provided with appropriate care. They are considering an appeal of the decision.

A jury in Arkansas awarded a man and his wife $400,000 in damages after a botched gall bladder surgery.

According to court documents attained at Boone County Circuit Court, Paul R. Archer and his wife Marie filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Jose Padilla in November 2008. The lawsuit concerned a “laparoscopic cholecystectomy,” or gall bladder removal, that Padilla performed on Archer in June 2008. The lawsuit alleged that Padilla “erroneously divided and clipped the common duct in two places instead of dividing the cystic duct.” As a result of this mistake, the lawsuit contends that “a hole in the common duct allowed bile to drain directly into [Archer's] abdominal cavity.

After the three-day trial, a jury deliberated for almost three hours before returning a judgement for the plaintiff, Judge Gordan Webb said. The jury set damages at $400,000.

Court records show that Padilla filed a motion on Friday asking the execution of the judgement be delayed. “Dr. Padilla intends to file a motion for a new trail in this case,” the motion said.

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After over a year since the woman’s death in 2009, a Pennsylvania family has received $2.9 million in compensatory funds.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinforced a lower court’s ruling by denying an appeal from St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network. The woman claimed that the hospital failed to diagnose her breast cancer, which was cited as the cause of her May 23, 2009, death. According to her claim, instead of recognizing a growth as a malignant tumor, her doctor labeled the growth as only a cyst. The growth ruptured a year later, and was finally determined to be cancerous.

Although the jury awarded the plaintiff almost $4 million, the amount was cut down to acknowledge some blame placed on the woman. The late woman’s lawyer is seeking an additional few hundred-thousand dollars to add interest accrued during the time of the lawsuit, which brings the total to just under $2.9 million.

The Obama administration has begun a $25 million project to reduce the number of medical malpractice suits and their overall price.

To appease Republicans in Congress, Obama had promised this attempt to cut back on medical malpractice lawsuits last year, and today put together a series of grants to make good on that vow.

Money will be going to Ohio State University, Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, the University of Utah, Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Tacoma’s Multicare Health System. Specifically, the administration hopes that the new projects will cut back on lawsuits by improving education to reduce injuries, bettering patient-doctor communication, and decreasing premiums on liability insurance.

Obama commented on the decision, saying that Republicans had argued during the political battle over health care reform that malpractice reform would help lower costs and better streamline the health care industry. He acknowledged previous Bush administration ideas, and said that his Secretary of Health and Human Services was well-prepared to enact the new government plan.

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An Associated Press report has shown that Americans are being over-treated for medical problems that easily would be healed by time and patience.

According to the report, a range between one-fifth to one-third of all treatments, including tests, were found to be unnecessary. What many do not realize is that these additional tests and treatments can lead to serious complications, making quality of life worse than if the patient had let the problem solve itself.

Back pain, which is often cited as the most over-treated symptom in the country, can easily cause MRI or X-ray scans to be taken before seeing if the ache will simply go away with time. These scans are usually supposed to be administered only after six months of pain, but one study found that up to one-third of all Medicare patients received a test for their back pain after only a month of persistent suffering.

In the case of back pain, back-related surgeries can affect the spine, leading to repeat surgeries in relatively short times that could have been avoided altogether.

If you or someone you love has undergone unnecessary treatments and been affected by unneeded scans or surgeries, you may be eligible for compensation. Contact the Pennsylvania medical malpractice attorneys of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C., by calling 610-667-7511 today.