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A San Antonio jury has returned a verdict $160 million in favor of the family of Tranquilino Mendoza, an 81-year-old man who was viciously beaten by a mentally disturbed roommate at the Comanche Trail Nursing Center in 1997.The jury found that Summit Care Corp., its Texas affiliate, and two of its employees shared responsibility for this particularly brutal beating and its aftermath. Mr. Mendoza...

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Three cheers for Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, has had the courage to veto a bill that would have made it nearly impossible for victims of medical mistakes in emergency rooms obtain justice.The law would have punished those least able to defend themselves, emergency room patients and had no proof that it would have helped alleviate any real or perceived doctor shortage. This is...

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Bacterial contamination of keyboards is a source of pathogenic contamination in hospitals , according to a paper published by the Department of Hospital Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Health Care System in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hospital keyboards have multiple users, who do not wash or decontaminate their hands according to these findings. Most hospitals have mobile...

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Republican lawmakers are gearing up to, yet again, further restrict the rights of victims of medical error as they will introduce Medical Malpractice legislation in the US Senate during the first week of May. Republicans must feel that restricting a patients rights is more important than dealing with Iraq, Iran, spying on US citizens, having government officials leak classified material and...

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New Jersey's new medical mistake reporting system does not release the names of the hospitals, doctors or nurses involved in any of the mistakes to the public. Despite objections, New Jersey health officials said they believe confidentiality encourages health care workers to speak openly and share what they have learned from their mistakes with other hospitals. Critics say that open...

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Each year, more than 180,000 people die, at least in part, because of medical mistakes. When mistakes are made the effects can be devastating. Medical malpractice is an area of law that assists people who have been injured by the mistakes of health care providers, or the survivors of those who may have died as a result of the mistakes of health care providers.Doctors, nurses and other health...

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