After treatment, doctors are required to provide patients with follow-up care. For example, a doctor should monitor a patient's progress, confirm the patient is taking medications as prescribed, stay informed about the effects of the medicines they prescribed, make...
Vacuum extraction is a common procedure used to assist with delivery when labor stalls or complications arise. It involves attaching a soft or rigid cup to the baby’s head and using suction to guide them out of the birth canal during contractions. While it can save...
It can be tricky to trust someone else to care for your child. However, with medical issues, parents must trust doctors and medical professionals. Doctors have a legal duty of care to all patients, especially children. As they are not fully developed physically,...
Many women face challenges in receiving accurate diagnoses for certain health conditions, often leading to prolonged suffering and complications. In many cases, missed, delayed or misdiagnosis are forms of medical malpractice. Without a correct diagnosis, female...
Most people who undergo surgery would never imagine that medical professionals would use their operation as an opportunity to teach those learning to become doctors and nurses how to perform pelvic or other intimate exams that aren’t part of the procedure. Certainly,...
Anesthesia has changed modern medicine. Complicated surgical procedures can take place without the patient suffering any pain. However, anesthesia only works if it is administered appropriately. While relatively rare, anesthesia errors are common enough to warrant...
If you suffer harm due to a mistake by a medical practitioner, then you might feel it occurred because they were not giving you their full attention at the time. There’s a good possibility you are right. Doctors are just as prone to distraction as the next person. You...
A horrible incident of medical malpractice has made news around the nation after a 70-year-old man died when his surgeon removed his liver instead of his spleen. The revelations that came afterward, however, make the whole incident even worse – and showcase one of...
You go in for a medical procedure, and you meet the physician who is going to carry it out. You’re surprised because it appears that they’re younger than you. This may make you feel rather uncomfortable as if you should have an older doctor who is in more of an...
In some cases, wait times in an emergency room or a hospital can be critical. A patient who has to wait even slightly longer could suffer much more severe ramifications or could even pass away from their condition. While it is true that doctors can’t always respond...