Cody Porcoro

An expert in massage therapy and chiropractic treatments was needed to testify in a malpractice trial that contended a standard neck adjustment had led to a patient’s death. After experiencing lower back pain, a middle-aged male patient had gone to…

A pregnant woman suffered fetal demise after her Perinatologist allegedly neglected to respond to critical changes in the patient’s biophysical profile score. Allegedly her blood sugar had not been well monitored by her doctor, despite a prior diagnosis of gestational…

After a patient with a history of depression began to suffer from non-convulsive seizures in the aftermath of electroconvulsive therapy treatment, her emergency services physician was litigated against for negligence. The electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which causes an intentional and brief…

The family of a thirty-five year old man sued his physician, claiming that she had ignored the results of the man’s lipid panel and was complicit in his consequent fatal heart attack. Already carrying a history of smoking and hypertension,…

A patient’s death from prostate cancer caused charges of negligence to be raised against his general physician, who allegedly never fully discussed the benefits and drawbacks of PSA testing during his treatment. In a medical case spanning four years, the…

Following a series of PSA Tests for prostate cancer, a patient sued his general practitioner for failing to notify him of his own health developments. The tests had initially been conducted as a routine checkup, since the patient had been…

A Urologist’s standard of care was questioned in a recent court case where a doctor’s failure to communicate and administer PSA Tests to an elderly patient led him to sue. Though one of the patient’s tests from years prior indicated…

A primary care physician was named in a lawsuit after one of his patients claimed that his PSA prostate testing was conducted negligently. Five years prior, the primary care physician had recommended PSA testing to his patient. The core was…

A thirty year old woman decided to sue the manufacturers of NuvaRing, a vaginal contraceptive implant, after suffering a severe stroke while using the device. Though she had no family or personal history of blood clotting, she was diagnosed with…

A colon and rectal surgeon’s ineffective efforts to prevent the spread of cancer in one of his patients caused him to be the subject of a lawsuit. After a flexible sigmoidoscopy revealed cancerous ulcers obstructing a male patient’s distal descending…