Fighting For Your Rights
Medical malpractice is not limited to doctors alone. It is possible for other employees at a hospital to be responsible for birth injuries and other acts of malpractice. For instance, anesthesiologists, nurses and others could potentially be at fault in a malpractice...
Medical mistakes can put patients in dangerous positions. Prescribing medications that interact could lead to fatal side effects, using drugs that patients are allergic to could lead to anaphylaxis and patients who are given too much of a drug could overdose. Medical...
Smartphones have a lot to offer when it comes to medical care. They can actually help you in a hospital setting, as a patient, and they can help doctors offer better care. How do they do it? A few examples include: Allowing doctors to stay on top of important medical...
Pain management has seen significant advances over the years. Intense pain can affect somebody’s mental state and their body’s ability to heal from an injury or illness. Simply put, controlling pain is often key to successfully treating a medical condition....
Managing the inflow of patients in a modern emergency room is a demanding task. Nurses and other medical professionals have to get very good at identifying those who need help quickly, those who can wait and those who won’t respond to treatment in order to prioritize...
You may have heard the term “patient abandonment” before, but what does it really mean — and entail? Patients can be abandoned by physicians and also by nurses. For the purposes of this blog entry, we will focus on patient abandonment by the nursing staff. You may...
No one should have to go through the struggle of dealing with injuries caused by medical errors. Unfortunately, there are many times when patients are left to deal with the consequences of mistakes made by their medical providers. One condition that is often...
Medical experts agree that between the anesthesia and the surgical procedure itself, the latter generally poses much more risk than the former. However, while general anesthesia is overall very safe, there is a risk of complications and side effects. According to the...
It’s an unfortunate fact that some patients are left injured because of items left behind inside them during surgery. Though there are systems in place in most surgical rooms to prevent these errors, many patients still have serious complications from items being left...
Now that you’re in your late 30s, you’ve found that you have some drooping skin and a few wrinkles. You don’t want to see your aging advance too quickly, so you started thinking about getting Botox. Botox is a drug that is made from botulinum toxin type A. This toxin...