Medical Malpractice

When you go to the hospital for a surgery, something you should wonder about is how much noise there is in the operating room. Interestingly, there are actually recommendations for how loud operating rooms should be. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency has previously recommended that the continuous background noise in hospitals should be limited […]

Distracted doctors shouldn’t be treating patients. Whether they’re thinking about something other than the patient’s care or just want to do something else, that doctor is putting the patient at risk. Medical errors are already a serious cause for concern and a leading cause of deaths in America. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes

When nurses and doctors are new to the job, it’s not uncommon for them to make errors. This is partially why some medical providers go through years of training in hospitals doing rounds with other professionals. The people who have been working in the field longer help train them and catch mistakes to prevent patients

When a child is hurt, it’s important that he or she is taken care of. Many parents turn to medical providers for help. They rush to emergency rooms, hurry to private practices and call nurse hotlines with frantic requests. The most horrifying thing for a parent to find out is that delays in service or misdiagnoses have

Wrong-site, -procedure and –patient surgeries are horrifying for the people involved and their loved ones. There is nothing more shocking than waking up with the wrong organ missing, the wrong procedure performed on your body or even having received a surgery you didn’t need. When these kinds of medical mistakes take place, there is no

You felt unwell for a significant amount of time, and you went to the doctor several times for tests. It wasn’t until you finally pushed for a blood test and MRI that the doctor finally reported unusual test results. After additional testing, you discovered you had been living with cancer. There is nothing more horrible

When you have a child, you want your child to be happy and healthy. If a doctor makes a mistake that puts your child’s life at risk, you have every right to be upset and to pursue a claim. Medical negligence can and does take lives or cause serious injuries that are difficult to live

There is nothing more terrifying than waking up without a body part you went to sleep with. That is particularly true when you wake up from a surgery expecting one body part to be missing but find that the other is gone instead. That is what happened to one man who went to the hospital

As a patient, the last thing you ever want to hear is that something went wrong with your treatment. An error could mean years of recovery, lasting pain or irreversible injuries. To help prevent injuries, it’s a good idea to look into questions to ask your doctor. By being your own advocate, you can help

When a company is negligent, you expect that it will take responsibility. That’s not always the case, though. Sometimes, the companies try to push off the blame onto the victims themselves. That’s what is happening in this case involving Geisinger Kistler Clinic. The clinic was found to have been negligent for failing to diagnose an