New Mexico residents should know that medical experts who testified on Capitol Hill on July 18 are worried about physician errors. They said that not enough is done to curb deaths and injuries that could have otherwise been prevented. One of the issues that the...
Recent research suggests that nearly half of all heart patients in the United States are taking their medicine incorrectly or do not understand the directions that were given to them regarding how to take their medication. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
A recent study indicated that more than one-fourth of diagnostic mistakes in New Mexico and across the nation either carried the potential to result in a permanent disability or to be deadly. One estimate places the number of incorrect diagnoses at 12 million in this...
Many families in New Mexico suffer when complications during pregnancy or childbirth cause injuries to babies. Birth injuries often occur due to incidents during prenatal care or a physician's failure to properly respond to or assess the patient's condition. A doctor...
A recent review of previous studies indicates that many children have been taking incorrect dosages, or have not been taking their prescriptions at all, due to mistakes made throughout the chain from filling out the prescriptions to administering patients'...
Residents of New Mexico may be interested in a recent article in U.S. News that discussed how consumers can deal with prescription mistakes at pharmacies. Pharmacists are human too, and while they are highly trained, they sometimes make mistakes in filling...
Residents of New Mexico may be interested to learn about the confusion surrounding the diagnosis of Lyme disease. Due to a delayed diagnosis, one man from Boston suffered with the disease for almost a year after he was bitten by a tick. Although the man was infected...
Patients in New Mexico, as elsewhere, go to a doctor to find out what is wrong with them. When a diagnosis is not forthcoming, some patients continue to search for an answer. One online site takes a different approach using crowdsourcing techniques. The founder, a man...
