What is Dental Malpractice?
A dentist is a doctor that you put your trust in when it comes to your oral health, and like a doctor your dentist must exercise due care in the treatment of patients. However, when a dentist provides bad […]
Topic: Medical Malpractice Law
Doctors Ignore FDA Warnings on Anesthesia & Birth Injuries
In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that repeated or even general use of anesthetic and sedation drugs in pregnant women and toddlers could damage children’s developing brains. The FDA was especially concerned with their use […]
New Study: Alarming Lack of Training For Medical Students on How To Report Medical Errors
A recent study published highlights just how few US medical schools report teaching patient safety and quality; specifically, that many medical students do not have what it takes to speak up when they see or experience a medical error […]
Surviving a Bad Diagnosis, Known as “Medical Error”
A certain number of errors in the field of medicine are to be expected, as doctors are only human, and to err is to be human. However, when it comes to medical diagnoses in particular, recent reports indicate that […]
Five Cataract Surgeries; Five People Blinded
The Boston Globe recently featured an upsetting story of surgery error about five patients who went in for cataract surgery and came out blind in the eye that was operated on, allegedly due to consistent errors made by the anesthesiologist […]
The “Heartbreaking Truth” About Military Medical Malpractice
On July 10th, Military Times published a heartbreaking story on medical malpractice in the military; a controversial system that often protects the government while military families pay with their lives after undergoing severe medical malpractice.
The story opens with the […]
When Hospitals Lie About Surgery Errors
Yale Medical School and its hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, as well as two surgeons who work at the hospital, are currently being sued for not only removing the wrong body part on a woman who underwent surgery, but allegedly […]
Medication Error Made By Dentist Allegedly Disables Child
No one who takes their child to the dentist expects them to end up with a severe brain injury; however, that is, sadly, what one family experienced with their four-year-old daughter. After being taken to the dentist to treat […]
Hospital Chain Found To Be Making Serious Surgery Errors
A news channel investigation released on March 3rd revealed that Genesis hospitals have been making serious medical mistakes, and somewhat frequently. Specifically, four times in the last 40 days last year, surgeons mistakenly operated on the wrong side of […]
Dangerous Medical Device Goes Unreported, Injuring Many
According to a Senate report released on January 13th, serious infections have been linked to a medical device known as “closed-channel duodenoscopes”—long tubes fitted with cameras used to examine the small intestine—because of how difficult these devices are to […]