Many Arizona residents fall victim to prescription errors each year. You may have visited a clinic or emergency room with the expectation that doctors, nurses and other staff will pay careful attention to your prescription needs only to suffer serious side effects...
Some New Mexico residents may be familiar with concierge medicine practices. These organizations contract doctors to provide care. Under the scheme, the doctors pay a fee per patient for advertising, marketing and other services, and patients pay a membership fee that...
While advances in modern medicine have made it much safer for New Mexico mothers to give birth to their children, there are rare instances where some do not survive the pregnancy or birth. While some of these deaths were caused by natural ailments, other deaths are...
General anesthesia is an important component to many surgical procedures, because it allows the patient to remain unconscious and pain-free during surgery. It is usually administered by an anesthesiologist, who is a physician whose practice is devoted to anesthesia...
While keeping track of how many people die due to hospital or doctor errors in New Mexico and around the country is important, no one is quite sure what the correct number is. A 1999 study from the Institute of Medicine suggested that 98,000 people each year died due...
Parents in New Mexico may be concerned about the risks to infants who are delivered with the use of either vacuums or forceps. Both instruments pose a risk of birth injury to both mothers and infants. Following is a brief discussion of the risks and advantages of both...
Medication mistakes can happen at any stage of the health care process. New Mexico physicians might prescribe too much of a medication. Nurses in hospitals or long-term care facilities might give a patient the wrong drug or an incorrect dosage. Pharmacists sometimes...
Healthcare providers have an obligation to patients to deliver quality care in regards to disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. When symptoms present themselves and the doctor fails to recognize the seriousness of the condition, a misdiagnosis could occur that...
Doctors in New Mexico are expected to provide their patients with the appropriate standard of care. A standard of care is the general level of care that patients expect to receive from members of the medical community. In the past, standards of care varied greatly...
New Mexico comedy fans may be interested to learn that Melissa Rivers, daughter of deceased comedienne Joan Rivers, filed a lawsuit on Jan. 26 against the clinic that was accused of causing the comedienne's death. Rivers, aged 81, died Sept. 4 after going to an...
