Northeast Health and the
medical malpractice stories
Albany's newspapers suppressed
Almost every medical organization in the country makes mistakes that kill and seriously injure patients, and Northeast Health in Troy, New York is no exception. But until now, information about these tragedies has been hidden from public view. In the past 12 years, only one of the dozens of malpractice lawsuits filed against Northeast Health has been reported in the region’s newspapers.
The management of these newspapers have decided that information about claims of medical negligence are not of public interest – a decision which, of course, has nothing to do with the fact that Northeast Heath and other medical providers in the Capital Region spend vast sums of money advertising in those newspapers.
But the allegations in all those lawsuits are public information, accessible to anyone who goes into a county clerk’s office and searches the records. And now those allegations are being made available here.
On the pages of this Web site you will find summaries of some of the many lawsuits filed against Northeast Health over the past 12 years. Clicking a link below each summary will take you to a full account, written as it might have been if it had been reported in a newspaper, of the allegations in that lawsuit.
Most of the lawsuits listed here were filed in Rensselaer and Albany counties. The list is not complete. More will be added to this site as they are located.
And later, the site will be expanded to include details of unreported medical malpractice lawsuits filed against other medical provides in the Capital Region in Northeast New York.
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EXCLUSIVE:
HOSPITAL LETS INCOMPETENT DOCTOR PRACTICE; NEWSPAPERS IGNORE
LAWSUITALEGING HIS UNAUTHORIZED AND UNNECESARY SUGERY
Read the shocking story HERE
NEW: The letter that stopped a lawsuit. Read it HERE
Here are more stories the newspapers ignored:
* $275,000 for woman who died in agony
*Northeast Health settles two more wrongful-death lawsuits
*Health Department says Samaritan Hospital nurse and an anesthesiologist caused blood-thinner overdose in patient who died
*Woman says nurses who ignored orders caused permanant leg injury
*Doctor with controversial crack-cocaine-possession-charge dismissal was later impaired at work, according to allegations in an unreported lawsuit.
Read these stories HERE
And even more HERE
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But the Albany media didn't always ignore lawsuits alleging medical negligence. Back in 1985, two doctors made a terrible mistake that took the life of a woman and her child.
Read the two-part account of how it was reported, and an editorial HERE
The Times Union does print stories about alleged medical malpractice - but only if the claim is against a non-advertiser. In one such case, the allegations were remarkably similar to those in a lawsuit against an advertiser - which was never metioned.
Read the story, "A tale of two deaths" HERE
An open letter to the editor of the Times Union
Read it HERE
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