Some prescription medication errors occur in a patient's home and are therefore not the fault of any medical professional. The patient or their caregiver misremembers the doctor's instructions or mixes up several medications with poor results. However, medication...
Even with many years of formal medical education and potentially years of professional experience, surgeons still make mistakes while operating on their patients. Surgical never events (mistakes that should never happen) affect thousands of people in the United States...
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...
Certain types of motor vehicle collisions are often worse than others. For example, collisions that occur at very high speeds tend to lead to massive damage to the vehicles involved. Collisions with a major discrepancy in size between the vehicles involved can also be...
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...
Some of the criminal acts that affect people for the longest are also the hardest to successfully prosecute. For example, sexual crimes often have an abysmal arrest rate, to say nothing of the final conviction rate. Many people affected by sexual assault or misconduct...
One would think that a heart attack would be one of the easiest things for a doctor to diagnose. They happen every day, after all, and heart disease itself is now the number one leading cause of death in the United States. It’s become very clear that doctors should...
Surgery has become commonplace in modern America, and people often fail to give these invasive medical procedures the respect that they deserve. Any surgery can lead to catastrophic and fatal consequences, and surgical mistakes do still happen even in the most...
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...
