Doctors, nurses and pharmacists are among the most highly skilled and trained workers in the United States. People literally put their lives in the hands of the medical professionals that provide them with care, usually with positive results. Unfortunately, not all...
The last time you went to see the doctor, how long were you in the office? Five minutes? Ten minutes? How long was your doctor even in the room? Odds are that you spent the beginning of the time talking to a nurse, then you waited by yourself and then your doctor came...
It’s one of the easiest accidents to prevent: A driver running a stop sign. The driver on the perpendicular road stops, looks, sees the other car approaching, and then drives right in front of it because they know that the other driver has to stop. Unfortunately, that...
If you have ever had a fever combined with a lack of energy and joint inflammation, you probably already know that there are dozens of medical conditions that produce the symptoms. Simply doing an internet search of your symptoms won't necessarily give you an accurate...
It's a mistake that seems so egregious that it has made its way into movies and sitcoms as a punchline in the past. The idea that a surgeon would forget something inside an incision and then close the body back up, leaving that object inside, is almost absurd because...
When you ask people why they buy large vehicles, such as the massive SUVs designed to carry eight people but usually just carrying one driver through their daily commute, they’ll often tell you that they feel safe. They feel that -- should they ever get in an accident...
Unmanaged pain can cause a host of bodily reactions, up to and including shock, which can sometimes prove fatal. Keeping a patient's pain under control is an important part of providing medical care. However, physicians also take an oath to do no harm, and one can...
Whether you're having a knee replacement surgery or you need to have tissue removed because of cancer growth, having the surgery performed in the correct location on your body is of the utmost importance. That may seem like a very basic thing to point out, but...
Of all the things that you might expect to be underlying causes of truck accidents, would you have ever blamed coffee? Coffee, with its high caffeine content, has long been a trucker’s friend when they’re trying to stay alert on the road. However, a new study...
Failing to diagnose a patient isn’t uncommon, but it often doesn’t have a fatal outcome. That’s why many people will never know that they were actually misdiagnosed. For instance, someone who has a cold but who is told they have a flu will still likely recover over...
