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...
You likely would not expect to wake up from surgery to find a surgeon left a pair of scissors in your body. However, it can happen. It is possible that over one thousand people are victims of retained objects in the body every year. A common type of medical...
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...
One of the most common types of medical malpractice is a medication error. If you’re in a hospital setting or working with a healthcare provider, you need to be aware that such a mistake could have severe ramifications. In some cases, patients even pass away due to...
There’s been a lot of discussion in the media lately around aging and what makes someone “too old” to do a particular job. Often, people must decide that for themselves. However, people aren’t always the best judges of their own limitations as they get older....