Advances in anesthesia, pain management and infection control have all done wonders to help people survive surgical procedures. These days, surgery is incredibly common. Adults all over the country have preventative heart procedures and purely elective cosmetic...
Is it your weight, your hormones or all in your head? These three options seem to be the “go-to” diagnoses for a lot of women every time they visit their doctor with any kind of complaint. Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about the emotionally traumatic – and...
No matter what industry you work in, you probably know the value of efficient communication. Miscommunication leads to errors and mistakes. Companies with employees who are able to communicate quickly and effectively are going to avoid these mistakes and get better...
Your doctor retires, and it is time to find a new physician. You begin looking around and find someone close to your house. You go in for your first meeting with them to see if the relationship is going to work and to give them your medical history. But what surprises...
Medication errors can be a form of medical malpractice when negligence is the cause of the error. They can have a very detrimental impact on someone’s health. In some cases, errors with medications – even when made with the best of intentions – can prove fatal. One...
The last thing you want to hear your doctor announce as they look over your test results is that they believe you have some form of cancer. Of course, if you do actually have cancer, getting that bad news is a very important step on the path toward effective treatment...
A stroke is a dangerous neurological event that can lead to death or lifetime impairment caused by damage to the brain. Medical experts often say that time wasted is brain lost after a stroke. The quicker someone receives adequate medical attention, the more likely...
Once puberty starts, women have to undergo additional medical care and screenings that men do not require. Regular gynecological exams are important both to protect and monitor a woman's fertility and to detect early signs of reproductive illnesses, like cervical...
Human error is a major contributing factor to many medication mistakes. People take the wrong medication or make timing errors, such as forgetting a dose, that can impact the efficacy of their treatment or lead to dangerous bodily reactions. The delivery of medication...
Medical malpractice is something that happens every day, and it can happen to anyone. It takes many different forms, from doctors giving people the wrong medications to carrying out the wrong surgical procedures. In some cases, the mistakes that the medical teams make...
