On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Sep 15, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Medical errors, including surgical errors, are a leading cause of death for patients in the United States. This substantial threat to patient safety constitutes a serious public health problem. Sometimes surgical mistakes occur when a doctor does something incorrectly...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Mar 10, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Patients expect a certain level of care when admitted to a medical facility. With many of the workers in these establishments undergoing extensive training, people in Hawaii expect the utmost diligence regarding the treatment they receive. Anytime there is failure to...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Mar 2, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Women who are pregnant worry a lot about what will happen when they go into the hospital to give birth. This concern isn’t without a good basis. Birth injuries occur in births around the country. These can range from minor injuries that heal without intervention...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Feb 15, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Discovering a serious health condition in a timely manner is often crucial to the outcome. Some conditions will cause the health of a patient to deteriorate if not addressed, and failure to diagnose and treat these can cause irreparable harm and, in some cases, death....
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Jan 26, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Most medical patients in Hawaii would agree that physicians should be forthright regarding their own mistakes and should definitely apologize to patients, especially those who become injured. Such might not be very likely, however, according to approximately 300...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Jan 20, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Many parents in Hawaii can relate to having loved ones who suffer from various types of headaches. Often, a severe headache prompts a visit to an urgent care facility or emergency room. For one young girl, it meant repeated visits over an extended period of time....
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Jan 14, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Medical treatment and surgeries obviously involve a certain amount of safety risk to the patient. Most doctors in Hawaii and elsewhere do their best to adhere to strict protocol that helps them keep patients as safe as possible. Most doctors, however, does not include...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Jan 5, 2017 | Medical Malpractice
Any medical patient who winds up in the intensive care unit in Hawaii may be at risk if medication of any type is needed. Data shows ICUs are places of high risk for nursing negligence with regard to mistakes being made with medications. Every year, preventable...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Dec 26, 2016 | Medical Malpractice
One can only imagine the utter shock and devastation of having a perfectly healthy kidney surgically removed by mistake. Sadly, this is not the first horrific surgical error to take place in one of the nation’s hospitals. Each year, thousands of people in Hawaii...
On behalf of Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks | Dec 22, 2016 | Medical Malpractice
There is definitely no shortage of bad news regarding people who die from illegal drug use. Not every overdose in Hawaii or elsewhere is caused by illegal drug use, however. In fact, all too many tragic deaths have been caused by medical mistakes that were entirely...
