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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...
You may have heard of some instances of medical malpractice referred to as “never events.” That is because if all protocols and safety procedures had been followed to the letter, there would never be an occasion where a patient was subsequently harmed or their...
Medical malpractice can take many different forms. While surgical mistakes are often far more dramatic than medication errors, those errors are a very common and dangerous form of medical malpractice. Mistakes with prescription drugs could have a number of very...
Lewy body dementia is a relatively unknown disease that often is misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease or some sort of psychotic disorder. The confusion is understandable due to the symptoms being similar, which include loss of memory, difficulty with...