Surgical errors are relatively rare. Most procedures do not result in any major complications. Even when they do, they are often unpredictable issues, such as a poor response to anesthesia. However, some surgeries have poor outcomes because of mistakes made by the...
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,...
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but it also empowers you to begin appropriate treatment immediately. The wrong diagnosis delays treatment and may even expose you to unnecessary medications or therapies. Unfortunately, some cancers are challenging to...
You sit in the waiting room, anxiously awaiting your test results. Have you considered the possibility that your doctor might miss something important? While medical professionals receive extensive training, the intricacies of the human body and the demands of modern...
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...
Despite years of textbook education and then hands-on training, surgeons sometimes make egregious mistakes in operating rooms. Dozens of people every week undergo the wrong procedure or the right procedure performed on the wrong part of their body. Surgeons also...
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...