Birth injuries can be heartbreaking for families in New Mexico. Affecting mothers, babies or both, birth injuries make what should be a joyous time difficult and painful. Some birth injuries can occur naturally. This is especially true if there's a circumstance like...
Misdiagnosing or failing to diagnose illnesses
The Journal of Clinical Oncology states that cancer misdiagnoses happen about 28% of the time. For certain forms of cancer, the rate of failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis is up to 44%. Some of the reasons for misdiagnoses include an incomplete medical history,...
The most common medical errors and why they’re so dangerous
In New Mexico, medication errors occur far too often. Unfortunately, these errors, which are often completely avoidable when the right precautions are in place, can cause patients to suffer serious injuries or even death. There are several medication errors that are...
What is Erb’s palsy?
Every parent's nightmare is that something harmful happens to their child. That scenario is magnified during childbirth, which can easily turn from routine to dangerous. Unfortunately, childbirth injuries are much more common than people realize, with thousands of...