Kaiser Doctors Forgot to Read X-Ray, Delayed Treatment For 18 Months Leading to Patient Death PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. — A New Carrollton woman is suing a Kaiser health plan and its doctors saying they first neglected to read her husband’s chest x-rays for eight months and then delayed needed treatment for nearly a year,… Read More »
Please join us in welcoming KaiserVictims.org to the growing ranks of web sites dedicated to exposing the egregious, and oftentimes deadly abuses of power and patients at Kaiser Permanente (gazillion dollar Thrive campaign notwithstanding). From the site’s introduction: This is a collaborative community project that intends to provide a public record of serious medical errors.… Read More »
[kaiserthrive.org editor’s note: We’re sure the family of the baby who was killed will find great comfort in the fact that Kaiser might be fined for ending this child’s life forever, before it ever began. We’ll believe it when we see it, but any slap on the wrist the State might impose won’t even begin… Read More »
Medication Mistake? Infant Dies At Kaiser At Kaiser Hospital In Santa Clara KGO By Karina Rusk Mar. 9 – KGO – An infant has died at a Kaiser hospital from what appears to be a medication mistake. The death of a newborn child at Kaiser Santa Clara happened within the past week. Kaiser Permanente issued… Read More »
[April 28, 2008: It was a little over two years ago that Beth Stover’s daughter, Lehna Brewer, was stillborn at Kaiser Walnut Creek. We’re spotlighting this post again this week to coincide with an article in USA Today about the alarming national trend of missing records in medical error cases, in which Beth’s story is… Read More »
From the Los Angeles Times: Authorities investigate allegations that a Kaiser surgeon in San Luis Obispo hastened a possible donor’s demise. By Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Times Staff Writers February 28, 2007 Police are investigating whether a Kaiser Permanente transplant surgeon attempted to hasten the death last February of a 26-year-old San Luis Obispo… Read More »