Doctor Errors

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....

The New Mexico Dental Board recently fined an Albuquerque area dentist $10,000 for records mishandling and legal fees associated with him having performed a number of nonessential dental procedures and then billing patients overpriced fees for them. The dentist is...

In 2013, a then-57-year-old woman was given an epidural injection while at The Surgery Center in Lone Tree, Colorado. The center focuses on same-day surgery care. The drug given was Kenalog, a corticosteroid. Two years prior, the manufacturer of Kenalog,...

A recent study published in the medical journal Pediatrics has pinpointed a common theme shared among the stories of doctors accused of committing medical errors. Of the physicians interviewed, approximately 40 percent attributed their lapses in judgment to emotional...

A study was recently carried out to ask doctors if they thought it was fine to hide a mistake, even if they knew that the mistake could injure or harm the patient. A full 78 percent said that this was never acceptable to do so. With such a stark majority, why is this...

Right now, rookie physicians are only allowed to work for 16 hours in a row. After they get through that first year, they may be allowed to take longer shifts, such as 24-hour ones. However, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education just put forth a...

When you are going to have a procedure done by your doctor, you should be told what the benefits and risks are for the procedure. This is known as informed consent. When you are harmed by a procedure in a manner that wasn't told to you beforehand, you might opt to...