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You expect quick action when you visit an emergency room. After all, the word emergency suggests urgency. Still, delays can occur and not every delay points to medical malpractice. The question often comes down to how the delay affected your condition and whether the...
During surgery, doctors and nurses use many surgical tools to clean, cut and care for the body. These tools can include surgical sponges, gauze, needles and clamps. In some cases, these medical instruments are left inside a patient’s body during a surgical or medical...
Medical malpractice sometimes leads to significant injuries to a patient who is under a doctor’s care. That patient may believe that the doctor is at fault, and they may want to seek financial compensation for pain and suffering, medical bills, lost wages and much...
Cancer misdiagnosis is a serious concern, no matter who suffers from this particular diagnostic misstep. However, research shows that women often face particular challenges in getting accurate and timely diagnoses. Delayed or incorrect diagnoses can lead to more...
No one walks into surgery expecting to come out with more problems than they went in with. Yet, for some patients, that is exactly what happens. A surgical team may make a grave error of leaving a tool or foreign object inside the body. This kind of medical mistake...
One example of medical malpractice is wrong-site surgery. This is a "never event," or something that should never take place in a medical setting. But it can happen, often because the surgeon was negligent or other medical professionals made a serious mistake. Exactly...
If you go to the hospital for surgery, your surgeon may use a permanent marker to make certain marks on your skin. In some cases, surgeons will write their own initials, while in others, they may draw an X or other lines around the area where the surgery will be...
Doctors are highly trained and tend to be thorough. Nonetheless, doctors are only human and they do make mistakes – sometimes serious ones. A mistake is not necessarily medical malpractice. For medical malpractice to occur, the doctor needs to have been negligent....
A heart attack misdiagnosis is a very serious medical mistake. The ramifications can be severe for the patient, and they are often fatal. What sometimes happens is that the doctor diagnoses the patient with something like indigestion, anxiety or gastronomical...
Surgery is among the most sensitive treatment methods, and as such, operating room procedures should be followed meticulously to minimize risks and guarantee patient safety. Despite these precautions, surgical errors can occur, leading to various complications and...
