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Moving a parent into a Pennsylvania nursing home is not always easy. Yet, in many cases, your parent may need more care and attention than you may realistically provide. Many people who move parents into nursing homes do so because they want to make sure their parents...
You make an appointment with your doctor to get answers for the symptoms you experience. While some conditions may take a while to diagnose, what happens if your doctor fails to diagnose you timely, and you find that your condition is worse? Medical professionals need...
When someone receives a cancer diagnosis, it can affect everyone in their lives. From work colleagues, family members and friends, everyone shifts their focus to help care for the person. After diagnosis, the next steps are often surgery, chemotherapy or radiation....
When you enter a hospital or birthing center to give birth, you expect your healthcare team to be competent and experienced. You do not expect to experience significant medical errors or birth injuries. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) occurs when an infant...
Medical errors may lead to serious long-term health consequences for patients. In certain cases, it may even result in death. In fact, in 2018, only cancer and heart disease led to more deaths than mistakes by healthcare providers. One action, or rather, lack of...
If you worry about how a fall could affect you as an older adult or you are struggling to piece your life together following a recent accident, it is very important to go over information on this devastating issue. Falls shatter the lives of many older adults each...
When you feel ill, you visit the doctor expecting it to help. However, this is not always the case, especially if a doctor does not exercise a certain standard of care. Medical malpractice claims run the gamut from minor missteps to catastrophic. A medical mistake may...
Did you know that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.? This appears to be ironic because we depend on hospitals and other medical facilities to be alive or relieved of the ailments we are suffering from. That said, here are the common...
Medical errors are now listed as the third leading cause of death in the U.S., surpassing diabetes and heart disease. These errors result from both human and electronic mistakes. Consider some of the common causes of medical errors and steps you can take if you fall...
Doctors, and virtually any health care provider for that matter, can’t legally perform any medical procedure on you without first securing your consent to do so. Instead, they must inform you of your medical diagnosis, the treatment options available and the benefits...