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The Los Angeles Times (8/3, Zarembo) reports, “Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital are the latest additions to a list of California hospitals where [radiation] overdoses occurred during CT brain perfusion scans.” According to officials at both facilities, the scanners had been “programmed…according to the manufacturer’s specifications.” The hospitals, however, “are unlikely to be absolved of responsibility,” as “LA County health officials who investigated the County-USC overdoses concluded that the technologists were not paying attention to dose levels during the scans.” Meanwhile, “Toshiba issued a statement Monday saying it ‘cannot comment on specific cases’ because of an investigation underway by the US Food and Drug Administration,” adding, “We continue to work with all of our customers to educate them on the dose reduction technologies that we provide on our CT systems.”
As more and more hospitals are found to overdose patients with radiation, doctors and health-care providers must be even more diligent to ensure patients are not put at risk. The consequences of over-radiation can be horrific, even life-threatening.
I represent patients who have been injured as a result of medical errors every day. The medical mistakes should never happen if reasonable standards are followed.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
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