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Elder Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes: Warning Signs, Legal Responsibilities, and How Families Can Protect Loved Ones

By Goldberg & Goldberg

Introduction Families place enormous trust in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. They expect trained professionals to provide safe, compassionate, and dignified care for vulnerable older adults. Unfortunately, elder abuse and neglect remain serious and widespread problems in nursing homes across the United States. Abuse in nursing homes can take many forms, including physical violence, […]

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Differential Diagnosis, Standard of Care, and Medical Negligence: When Failure to Rule Out Becomes Misdiagnosis

By Goldberg & Goldberg

Differential diagnosis is the backbone of safe and competent medical practice. It is not merely a clinical formality. It is a structured, legally significant process that requires physicians to consider, prioritize, and rule out potential causes of a patient’s symptoms. When a life threatening condition appears on a differential diagnosis, the standard of care requires that it be affirmatively ruled out within a reasonable time frame. Failure to do so may constitute medical negligence.

This white paper examines the legal and medical intersection of differential diagnosis, index of suspicion, and malpractice exposure. It explains how breakdowns in clinical reasoning lead to preventable harm and why such failures frequently form the basis of claims handled by a misdiagnosis lawyer or failure to diagnose lawyer. It also highlights the role of experienced counsel such as Goldberg & Goldberg LLC and trial attorney Ian Alexander in litigating these complex cases.

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Posted in: Birth Injury, Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Surgical Malpractice, Uncategorized, Verdicts & Settlements, Wrongful Death

Goldberg & Goldberg, LLC Files Wrongful Death Case On Behalf Of 91 Year Old With Alzheimer’s Disease Who Froze To Death Outside Retirement Home

By Goldberg & Goldberg

On February 6, 2013, the Chicago law firm of Goldberg & Goldberg, LLC filed a wrongful death case on behalf of the Estate of Genevieve Klimczak who died on February 12, 2012. Ms. Klimczak was a resident of McHenry Villa, a self described “retirement community” offering 24 hour a day security…”so residents can leave the […]

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Tort Reform And The Imagined Health Care Crisis

By Goldberg & Goldberg

This blog entry comes courtesy of the President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and was published in the February 24, 2011 edition of the Belleville News Democrat: It is once again time to set the record straight with your editorial board. There was never a health care crisis in this state and there were […]

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Posted in: Birth Injury, Failure to Treat, Legislation, News, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Surgical Malpractice, Wrongful Death

How Walking 10,000 Steps Each Day Enhanced my Insulin Sensitivity in a Couple of Months

By Goldberg & Goldberg

The following blog entry comes courtesy of a guest blogger, Stacy H. Federico, who has a blog devoted to raising awareness of Type II Diabetes and the benefits of healthy eating. We would like to thank her for her contribution to our blog. Taking 10,000 steps every day (or walking about five miles) is incredibly […]

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Posted in: Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, News, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Wrongful Death

Medicare Liens and Medical Malpractice Litigation

By Goldberg & Goldberg

The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) overhauled Medicare’s perspective on payment for medical care related to “never events” including a list of delineated hospital acquired conditions. Hospitals will no longer receive reimbursement for conditions that are (a) high cost or high volume or both, (b) result in the assignment of a case to a […]

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Posted in: Failure to Diagnose, Legislation, News, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Surgical Malpractice, Wrongful Death

Illinois Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Patient On Medical Malpractice Reform

By Goldberg & Goldberg

The Illinois Supreme Court in a 4-2 decision struck down limits on damages awards in medical malpractice cases with its decision in Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital on thursday. The court held that the legislation was unconstitutional. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Fitzgeral held, in part: “[W]e necessarily consider…the legislature’s goal in enacting the […]

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Posted in: Birth Injury, Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, Legislation, News, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Surgical Malpractice, Verdicts & Settlements, Wrongful Death

Don’t Get Sick On Christamas: Medical Malpractice Over The Holidays

By Goldberg & Goldberg

Conventional wisdom says don’t get sick over the holidays. Hospitals are understaffed, doctors are distracted and the overall quality of medical care is diminished at even the finest of institutions. Over and over again we see cases at otherwise fine Chicago area hospitals that have one thing in common. The negligence occurs over the Thanksgiving, […]

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Posted in: Birth Injury, Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Surgical Malpractice, Wrongful Death

Medical Malpractice And Tort Reform: Enough Already

By Goldberg & Goldberg

Joanne Doroshow wrote an excellent article in the Monday, November 9, 2009 edition of The Huffington Post called Medical Malpractice Tort Reform – We Are Already Suffering And Don’t Need More. She points out that unless you are currently living under a rock you have heard the term “tort reform” but, sadly, probably don’t know […]

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Posted in: Birth Injury, Failure to Diagnose, Failure to Treat, News, Nursing Home Abuse & Neglect, Surgical Malpractice, Verdicts & Settlements, Wrongful Death