Hospital Negligence

Hospitals in New Mexico can be held liable for a patient's injuries or death if negligence at the facility is found to have been the cause of the damage. Because almost everyone has to go to the hospital at one point or another in their lives, it may be important to...

The Albuquerque Veterans Affairs hospital faces a lawsuit after a Vietnam veteran collapsed and died in the hospital cafeteria in June. The man's family is suing the Department of Veterans Affairs and the facility for negligence and medical malpractice since the staff...

When you go to a hospital, you expect the best care possible. Hospitals usually display a lot of lighter colors and white linens, almost as a way of symbolizing some sort of clean or pure atmosphere -- that this is where you go to be well. And yet, the reality is...

A disturbing matter was brought to our attention by Bloomberg, who investigated the notion that doctors who had lost their medical licenses due to misconduct were still being given money by Medicare. That's right: doctors who broke the law or were medically negligent...

Hospitals and doctors not only have an obligation to properly diagnose patients; medical professionals are also obliged to promptly inform patients of medical conditions. Doctors' keeping diagnoses to themselves is not an option. This standard of care also applies...

For years, the medical industry has tried to depict itself as besieged by too many medical malpractice lawsuits. It's been the type of talking point that tends to stick around, even when it is directly contradicted by the evidence. In this post, we will take note of...

In the first part of this post, we began discussing the issue of medical professionals with addiction problems that put patient safety at risk. As we noted, outright contamination of medications intended for patients is one thing. But there is also the problem...

In the first part of this post, we began discussing the problem of antibiotics-resistant "superbugs" that can make hospital-acquired infections potentially lethal. One such superbug is called "C. diff." As we noted, it can cause deadly diarrhea infections. In this...

The problem of hospital-acquired infections is one of the recurring stories we are following in this blog. As we noted in our February 28 post, one of the reasons that medical checklists were originally developed was to promote better hand-hygiene protocols that would...

Anytime a document bears the word "manifesto" in its title, you know its author or authors had or have ambitious aims. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously issued their "Communist Manifesto" in 1848. Their aims were practically apocalyptic: the overthrow of...