$________ RECOVERY – MEDICAL MALPRACTICE – EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT – FAILURE OF RESIDENTS/INTERNS TO OBTAIN ATTENDING PHYSICIAN FOR OVER 12 HOURS – CARDIOLOGIST NOT SUMMONED – WRONGFUL DEATH.

$________ CONFIDENTIAL RECOVERY – MEDICAL MALPRACTICE – ANESTHESIOLOGY – PHYSICIAN NEGLIGENCE – MISPLACED CATHETER DURING LUNG TRANSPLANT ALLEGEDLY CAUSES STROKE IN 26-YEAR-OLD MALE PATIENT.

________ VERDICT Medical Malpractice – Oncology – Alleged negligent administration of chemotherapy – Hepatic artery infusion allegedly negligently performed – Gastric perforation – Inability to eat solid foods during final 17 months of life – Informed consent.

$________ VERDICT Medical malpractice - Plastic Surgery - Negligent failure to properly treat infection following breast augmentation surgery - Alleged heightened scarring - Patient falls into severe hypotensive state - Patient rushed to hospital and saved during two-day inpatient stay.

$________ VERDICT Medical malpractice - Plastic Surgery - Negligent failure to properly treat infection following breast augmentation surgery - Alleged heightened scarring - Patient falls into severe hypotensive state - Patient rushed to hospital and saved during two-day inpatient stay.

$________ RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - NEGLIGENT USE OF PERIPHERAL VEIN FOR INFUSION OF DEXTROSE - INABILITY TO INFUSE ADEQUATE CONCENTRATION OF DEXTROSE THROUGH PERIPHERAL VEIN RESULTS IN EXCESSIVE VOLUME OF FLUIDS BEING INFUSED - DANGEROUS REDUCTION IN SODIUM LEVELS - CONTINUING INADEQUATE SODIUM LEVELS RESULT IN INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE AND SEIZURE - HEMIPLEGIA - SEVERE SPEECH LIMITATIONS - MODERATE COGNITIVE DEFICITS - JURY WOULD HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED AS TO CHANGES IN CPLR ________ SEC. 50-A REGARDING DETERMINATION OF THE FIRST YEAR OF VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF SPECIAL DAMAGES.

$________ CONFIDENTIAL RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - OB/GYN - BIRTH INJURY - BIRTH ASPHYXIA - HYPOXIC- ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPAHTY - CEREBRAL PALSY - SPASTIC QUADRIPARESIS WITH ATHETOID FEATURES.

$________ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - GASTROENTEROLOGY - WRONGFUL DEATH - ALLEGED FAILURE TO TIMELY REMOVE COLON IN PATIENT WHO PRESENTED WITH SEPTIC SHOCK DUE TO ULCERATIVE COLITIS - NEGLIGENT AND FATAL OVERLOAD OF FLUID INFUSION.

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - WRONGFUL DEATH

$________ RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - UNNECESSARY PLACEMENT OF CENTRAL LINE TO INFUSE PATIENT ADMITTED WITH RECENT ONSET OF G.I. BLEEDING - CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT - STROKE.