The Briggs Law Firm Blog

The high rate of infant mortality for babies operated on for open-heart surgery at West Palm Beach's St. Mary's Medical Center is under active investigation. Recently the government launched its probe into the nine cases of babies who died since 2011 after undergoing...

Not every person needs such a procedure, but if your doctor suggests you get a left atrial appendage exclusion using the Lariat snare device, think twice about it.According to a report published in JAMA Internal Medicine, there's reason to believe it could increase...

The concept of robotic surgery is one that attracts a lot of attention. Most of the time, the information about the wonders of this technology comes from the hospital that is looking to attract patients. Often used to back up the claims is information that comes...

Through the fall of last year, Ebola was the bug of the day. Thousands in West Africa died as a result of the virus. And when the first death on U.S. soil, it seemed as if all the news stops were pulled out. In recent weeks, another bug unseated Ebola as the big...

There are a number of medical errors that have been determined to be all too common but which should never happen. Those in the Florida medical profession call these "never events." That is, there are practices that should be standard operating procedure so that such...

The law is a dynamic thing. Not only do laws change by legislative action, but their effects can also be changed as issues are decided by the courts. A couple of doses of such change have been delivered in recent months and the result is that the complexion of medical...