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...
A collision involving a passenger vehicle and a large commercial truck will typically be a more severe issue for the smaller vehicle. Sometimes, truck drivers report minimal cosmetic damage to their vehicles in crashes that leave others with life-altering injuries or...
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...
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...
