31May, 2019
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Could a 3-D Printer Replicate Human Organs?
Recently, 3D printing technology has been used to begin making innovations to the medical industry in very surprising ways.
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Medical Malpractice News
Can DNA Analysis Reveal Medical Malpractice?
When Kelli Rowlette submitted her DNA test kit for Ancestry.com, there was no reason to suspect her parentage. But when the test revealed a separate father from her own, her mother recognized the name.
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Robotic Surgery a Reality
Believe it or not, surgery has been performed by robots since March of 1997. The robot’s name was Mona, after the Mona Lisa, and the surgery that she/it performed was a gallbladder operation. 21 years later, and progress has been strangely slow. As cited by General Surgery Today, experts blame this slowness on a number of factors, including “technological limitations and questions about its applicability” in medical practice.
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Medical Technology Affecting Malpractice Claims?
These are the types of questions that rely on hard data in a court of law. If Charlie’s primary care physician misdiagnoses Charlie’s heart condition, and then refers him to a specialist who suggests a treatment based on the misdiagnoses, both might be liable for the resulting damages, but for different amounts. But could access to medical technology prove a difference maker?
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