It is estimated that someone has a stroke every 40 seconds, and almost 800,000 people experience this yearly. Unfortunately, not all cases of strokes are diagnosed properly. In fact, misdiagnosis of strokes leads to 40,000 to 80,000 preventable deaths in the U.S....
Your expectations are probably high when you go to the hospital for a scheduled surgery or emergency procedure. Medical staff are expected to uphold a high level of care to ensure mistakes and injuries don’t occur. Unfortunately, these things still happen. Surgical...
Anesthesia is one of the best scientific breakthroughs in medicine. That said, it’s not without its flaws. About 17,116 patients suffered from anesthesia errors between the years 2007 and 2014. Though the error risk is small, complications and errors due to...
There are several reasons you may need medical services. You may be involved in an accident, break a bone in a freak skiing accident or become ill. In any situation, you rely on the competency of medical professionals to provide the care you need. Not only do you...
You expect your doctor to listen to you. You communicate your experiences, symptoms, and concerns in a doctor's exam room. The doctor listens and examines to determine any validity of underlying medical issues. What happens, though, when you struggle with...
When you check in at the hospital for treatment, you trust that the healthcare professionals who will attend to you are qualified, duly licensed to practice and capable of giving you the care you deserve. And more often than not, they are. However, if a healthcare...
Doctors may think they know what’s best for us, and when it comes to medical treatment, they should. However, as patients, we still have the right to decide how an injury, illness or other medical condition will be treated and to make those decisions for our children...
When you’ve been affected by an illness that you cannot shake off yourself, you may need to go and see a doctor. The role of a doctor is to examine you, make an accurate diagnosis and then administer an effective treatment plan. Often, this involves taking a course of...
When a person has surgery, there’s a period of time after they come out of anesthesia when they need to be monitored closely. The nursing staff members who are doing this must be very watchful or they risk the patient having problems. There are several things that...
You wouldn’t want your doctor standing in front of you scrolling through their phone while you’re waiting to hear the results of your latest scans or tests. Likely, you wouldn’t want to know that their phone was on and in easy reach while they’re operating on you...