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Cosmetic Surgery cost averages between $2,000 to $8,000. But, what is the cost when there is painful and disfiguring medical malpractice leaving a patient permanently injured?
As more and more people opt for Plastic surgery the horrific outcomes of Medical Malpractice are soaring. A New York Medical Malpractice lawyer is becoming the best friend of many who dare to have Plastic surgery.
Doctors, many practicing their craft only on tomatoes, are now calling themselves plastic surgeons. The film "America the Beautiful," exposes these doctors, many of whom only take a short course to train for these complicated operations.
A Former "Today" show guest host, Mary Nissenson, went to see a so called plastic surgeon for a brow-lift. She has been living in unrelenting pain for over 10 years. "This man took my entire face off," states Nissenson in an interivew. The surgeon she chose had a "tremendous reputation." "From the second I opened my eyes, the agony was so extreme, so excruciating. I wanted to kill myself that second," she recalled.
It made her uninsurable, destroyed her TV career , ended her marriage and she is laboring financially under the costs of her pain medication. She has become homebound and financially burdened with pain-medication costs for life.
In New York State, thousands of complaints are filed every year with New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers, and a shocking proportion relate to cosmetic procedures.
If you or a family member are suffering because of a horrible experience with cosmetic surgery, call a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. You may deserve and be entitled to financial compensation.

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In 2007, inquiries for medical malpractice in some firms were up 50% and half of the increase was from cosmetic-surgery. The most frequent calls were from patients who have had breast implants. The chief complaints are that the breasts are ill-placed or lopsided and that there was a loss of feeling around the breasts. People need to research the risks of these procedures. Some are not worth it. There have also been an increase in calls about Tummy tucks as well.
There have been many complaints that what they expected the surgery to yield didn’t come to fruition. The pictures of these injuries are gruesome. In some instances there is no malpractice. There have been cases where the doctor didn’t do anything wrong and the injury that resulted from the surgery was a “ known risk”. The patient signed a release without fully understanding what they were signing and is now living disfigured and in pain. Read the disclaimer and talk to your doctor about the risk of surgery.

If you or a friend are suffering because of a horrible experience with cosmetic surgery, call a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. You may deserve and be entitled to financial compensation and a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer can help you get it.

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In a long awaited move in New York, Gov. Paterson has initiated legislation to finally expose doctors whose poor practice has endangered and injured patients. The Governor’s initiative has been met with widespread approval including patient safety groups and Medical Malpractice lawyers in New York. It appears the state legislature will pass this long waited bill geared to protect New York's citizenry.
“For years this has been needed” says New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer, Stephen Bilkis. The state has let these dangerous doctors continue to practice. Before this bill, total secrecy surrounded the misconduct investigations of doctors. Finally, there will be exposure of doctors who haven investigated and been found to have acted improperly. This will allow patients the ability to investigate their doctors' backgrounds as they would any professional they would want to hire.
Once the information gets to the public, and people find out about these suspect doctors, at least people will know the risk they are taking before they hit the waiting room. Hopefully, the most incompetent doctors will be put out of business based on their own bad conduct by a free market.

Paterson also would require HMOs and other health plans to alert the department when they boot a doctor from a network because of incompetence. Hospitals are already required to make such a notification.
Paterson and Daines are right to lead the charge for reform. Now it's up to the Assembly and Senate to put patients first, too.
If you or a friend are suffering because of a horrible experience with cosmetic or any other kind of surgery, call a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. You may deserve and be entitled to financial compensation.

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There are surgeons who operate without licenses, without insurance and have numerous medical malpractice claims against them. In fact law offices have been contacted by a patient whose doctor had his chauffeur perform a procedure on them. The doctor obviously has been arrested and shut down . However that didn’t help his patients/victims from being butchered.
People hear the horror stories but never believe it will happen to them. Doctors minimize the risk . All you have to do is talk to someone that is living with the nightmare and you would think twice. The mental battle is the hardest to overcome. The image of beauty and youth versus the tragedy of the surgery going wrong. Not enough people give weight to that . You must look up yoru doctors credentials and here are a few rules.

Places to look up your doctors credentials:

Ask your doctor if any regulatory body ever investigated him and has he been reprimanded.
Ask him if he has ever lost a malpractice case.
Does he have insurance?

Surgeon ‘s may say they are "board certified." However, the term 'board certified' can be misleading The Doctor can be "board certified" in dermatology and not in plastic surgery!
Ask your doctor if he has been "board certified" as a plastic surgeon! Look for your surgeon on the website of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons Web site(plasticsurgery.org) and see if he is a member. Then check to see if the facility where the surgery is taking place is in the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Their website is aaaasf.org.

Finally, ensure you have a thorough preoperative evaluation, including laboratory tests. Sometimes, even if the procedure is done properly, pre-existing conditions may be a detriment in recovery. Last year, Kanye West's mother, Donda, died in recovery after a routine liposuction, tummy tuck and breast reduction surgery. According to her autopsy, her death was likely caused by complications connected with heart disease. So knowing your own personal medical history is crucial, before going under the knife.

If you or a friend are suffering because of a horrible experience with cosmetic or any other kind of surgery, call a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. You may deserve and be entitled to financial compensation. We have New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers who can serve you and your case.

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Contrary to what the AMA would have you believe, the reason for high Medical Malpractice insurance in New York is not because of lawyer suits. The real reason these rates are so astronomical is the inability of doctors to regulate themselves. Thankfully, Govenor Paterson’s plan will do that. A start would be to revoke the licenses of doctors who are found to be guilty of multiple medical malpractice. Any experienced New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer would tell you there is a dangerous short list of Doctors to stay away from. It’s amazing that some of them haven’t lost their licenses already. This would prevent patient suffering and lower the high premiums New York doctors pay for insurance coverage.
Part of the Govenor’s plan would include screening malpractice cases and settlements which would initiate investigations of suspect doctors based on both the magnitude and frequency of the malpractice cases. Despite the best effort of any New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer to keep Doctors from continuing their reckless behavior, they’re only recourse was to get money for they’re client. Now that the state is monitoring the Docotrs that get sued. This procedure not only gets a client money damages but also can potentially stop the doctor from working again.
According to many reports some Doctors have remained in practice after settling over 30 lawsuits from Medical Malpractice attorneysby patients they had seriously harmed. A relatively small number do a huge amount of damage while driving up malpractice insurance rates for all their colleagues.
There are literally thousands of Medical malpractice clains made to lawyers in New York every year.
That’s why it is so important to know your rights and, if they have been violated, contact a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer.If you or a friend are suffering because of a horrible experience with cosmetic or any other kind of surgery, call a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. You may deserve and be entitled to financial compensation.

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The family of Jacob Goldbrenner, a 52 year old Brooklyn resident, has filed a lawsuit against a Brooklyn hospital claiming medical malpractice caused their father’s death. The family brought Goldbrenner to Maimonides Medical Center; located at 4802 Tenth Ave. Brooklyn NY 11219; in 2008 when he complained of chest pains. Hospital staff sent him to a cardiac lab where they could run tests to diagnose the problem. When the got to the lab, they found it was locked and the staff was unable to locate the key. The lawsuit was filed in Kings County Supreme Court, located at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn NY 11201. The suit alleged that one of the doctor’s could not even find the lab to get the results of the test. Goldbrenner suffered a heart attack during the five hours he was at the medical center. The family further alleges the medical staff did not perform the intubation procedure correctly, leaving the tube that should have been placed into the lungs for air to flow, in the stomach instead. They claim the delays and staff mistakes caused damage to the heart, and Goldbrenner would have to undergo a heart transplant surgery. Goldbrenner was rushed to Westchester Medical Center; located at 100 Woods Rd., Valhalla, NY 10595; because Mainmonides Medical Center told the family there was a transplant waiting there for him. When they arrived, they found out there was no heart and the surgery could not be performed. Goldbrenner only survived less than two weeks without the transplant.
In the event you or a family member suffers an injury to medical mishaps, you will need a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer to defend your rights and ensure you get the compensation you deserve. Stephen Bilkis & Associates has been helping the residents of Kings County get the compensation they deserve for their injuries for more than a decade. We have offices in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Nassau and Suffolk County. Our New York Medical Malpractice Lawyers offer a free consultation at 1-800-NYNY-LAW (1-800-696-9529). Call us today and see what your legal options are.

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A Long Island Medical Malpractice lawyer wanted immediately discipline of this Doctor but punishment was delayed by court manipulations.
In 2005, the department discovered he had exposed hundreds of patients to infection by misusing syringes. Yet officials didn't notify his patients or the public for more than two years - because Dr. Finkelstein and his lawyers withheld records, dragging out the case under a cloak of confidentiality.

And it had made no difference that Finkelstein was reponsible for 10 malpractice settlements in 10 years, putting him in the top one-tenth of 1% of the state's most-sued doctors.

If you or a friend are suffering because of a horrible experience with cosmetic or any other kind of surgery, call a New York Medical Malpractice Lawyer. You may deserve and be entitled to financial compensation.

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