Houston Physician Services & Professional License Defense Having worked in both academic teaching hospitals and private hospitals through out the United States, Dr. Malik understands, perhaps better than most, the hard work and effort it takes to achieve the medical license and then to maintain it. Dr. Shezad Malik Law…
As a Fort Worth Medical Malpractice attorney, I read with interest this Texas medical malpractice case. A Texas jury awarded $4 million to a man who had a surgical sponge left inside him after a cholecystectomy surgery in 2008. Several months later, he returned to the hospital with severe stomach…
As a Fort Worth Medical Licensing and Doctor defense attorney I have written about the Grapevine Texas Gynecologists who were implanting Canadian bought FDA unapproved IUDs. Now they are being sued by the Texas Attorney General on violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Fraud. Similar cases have…
As a Dallas Medical License and Doctor Defense attorney, I am providing an update to the story I blogged about yesterday. In an interview with News 8, Dr. Angela Cope, the clinic stated that they stand by their decision to insert a product they still believe is safe — despite…
As a Fort Worth Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice attorney, I read with interest this Texas medical malpractice story. The Texas Medical Board accuses Dr. Rahul Nath of performing unjustified surgery after taking MRIs and diagnosing shoulder injuries that “cannot possibly be seen,” and to charging excessive fees. Now a…
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.” And so it begins, twenty four hours from now, with a drop of the hammer and a cry of “Order, Court now in session,” the battle banners would have unfurled with the sounds of trumpets. As a Fort Worth Personal Injury…
This weekend I am in a contemplative mood. I was thinking about one of the medical malpractice cases I am handling. As a Fort Worth Medical Malpractice Attorney and licensed medical doctor, I receive up to 100 telephone calls and email inquiries per month. After talking and carefully screening all…
A Virginia jury has awarded $1.95 million in a lawsuit over the death of a woman less than two days after she received plastic surgery. Maritess Lopez was sent home an hour after her July 2008 surgery even though she was having respiratory problems, dizziness and fever, the lawsuit claims.…
Central DuPage Hospital in Illinois has agreed to a $5.3 million settlement with the husband of a woman who died of a stroke in 2006. The suit claimed Dr. Mark Kelly and Dr. Henry Echiverri “failed to properly evaluate and treat” Samantha Medina in December 2006, which lead to her…
The WA Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to require 90 days’ notice before suing a doctor. The court’s 6-3 decision said the waiting period violates the separation of powers between the legislative and judicial branches of government. The courts already have procedural rules for filing civil suits, and…