Fighting For Your Rights
Seven plaintiffs, including an Ohio resident, filed a class action lawsuit against Medtronic MiniMed this May. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs experienced significant injuries after using the company's 600 series insulin pumps to treat type 1 diabetes under...
Doctors have to think about many things, including their patient’s age, height, weight and medical history before they prescribe a drug. If they get any of this information wrong or don’t calculate dosages correctly, the patient can suffer harm. There are many impacts...
Patients who are getting medical care expect that their doctor is going to make decisions that help them. They don’t think that they will receive poor care. Unfortunately, substandard care does occur sometimes. The patients who suffer harm because of lax care might...
Though it is usually elective, plastic surgery is still a major surgical procedure. It can come risks that could lead to serious injury or death. According to USA Today, newer procedures often have more complications One example is liposuction. In the early days...
One complaint that people often have about visiting the doctor is that they do not feel like anyone really listens to them. They walk back out to the car with questions that went unanswered or a sense that the doctor does not actually understand their case. There are...
When you were involved in a car crash, you knew that you were pretty badly hurt. You were awake initially, but once help arrived, you have no memory of what happened next. Your medical provider told you that you were brought in while unconscious, and you were quickly...
Patients go into surgery with the intention of having the procedure done on the correct body part. When there are issues with the procedure, there are serious consequences that can occur. Not only will the person need to have another procedure on the correct part,...
Strokes have many of the same symptoms as other medical conditions. Medical providers may overlook or discount the initial signs of strokes in all kinds of people, largely as a result of considering other conditions first. For example, the severe headache a stroke may...
A 3-year-old boy was brought into an Ohio dental clinic by his mother in 2013 for what was expected to be just a routine check-up and teeth cleaning. Instead, after looking into the boy’s mouth for mere minutes and taking no X-rays, the dentist said the...
All medications come with a little bit of risk to the patient — but some drugs are inherently harder on the human system than others and vastly more dangerous to take because of their potential for serious or deadly side-effects. The Food and Drug Administration...