Many people are nervous when they have to go in for surgery. This is an understandable reaction considering that there really isn't any such thing as a minor surgery. When your surgery is over, you move into the post-operative period. During this time, there are...
Delayed diagnoses can be devastating, deadly
Like many people, when you hear the term "medical malpractice," you may think of incidents wherein a doctor or other healthcare provider has committed some form of terrible misconduct or made a careless mistake that resulted in injury or harm to a patient. A far less...
Family wins lawsuit against nursing home over mother’s death
It didn't take a medical expert to tell that something was seriously wrong when five women looked at their mother's surgical site before they picked her up from the nursing home where she'd been recuperating. The site where her pacemaker had been implanted was angry...
How do you know the severity of a brain injury?
You suffered because an operation went wrong; the doctor and anesthesiologist made mistakes that cut off the oxygen that should have been going to your brain. Now, you have a brain injury. You believe that you're fortunate you're alive, but that doesn't mean that you...
Doctors errors are sometimes for profit
In our recent blog post, we discussed the case of a dentist who was accused of rendering treatments that weren't necessary. While this might seem like a unique case, it really isn't. Some medical professionals put profits before patients and do things like this....