Medical Malpractice

Surgery is scary. After all, you have to totally trust your medical team -- and your surgeon -- not to make any mistakes while you're under the knife, and mistakes in the operating room are far too common. Recent research has shown that doctors' performance of...

You've likely met someone with either shoulder dystocia or cerebral palsy before, and you may have assumed that these medical conditions were genetics-related, since they are present from birth. They're not. They are two examples of birth injuries that may occur due...

If you have a loved one in a nursing home, one of the things to keep an eye on is how much they’re drinking during the day. The staff at the nursing home should be monitoring their fluid intake regularly, because dehydration can cause serious complications and even...

How often have you been looking at your phone when you suddenly realized someone had been talking to you, but you were too distracted to catch what they said? Or, perhaps you’ve seen news articles about distracted driving -- with texting and driving leading the way --...

One cause of medical malpractice claims is when a patient finds out that a surgeon has left an item behind inside them after a surgery. Items that don’t belong inside the patient following a surgery should never be left behind inside them, but it does happen. There...

When you think about medical malpractice, you probably think about emergency room mistakes, surgical errors and primary doctors that miss the signs of a serious illness. You probably don’t think about your pharmacy. However, pharmacy errors are a huge source of...

You know when something is wrong with your own body. You also know when you think that your doctor may have contributed to or worsened that issue for you. For example, if you believe that your doctor misdiagnosed you or that they made a mistake with a procedure or...

You pretty much have to trust your doctor with your life, so it’s very disconcerting for patients who experience serious problems and troubling symptoms to realize that not every doctor is a good listener. Some of them may act like they’re barely in the room with you....

Surgery is arguably one of the most stressful medical experience as a person can have. Even in the simplest and most straightforward of procedures, there are risks to the patient, such as the risk of infection, the risk of an adverse reaction to the anesthesia and...

When you woke up from your surgery and realized everything that had gone wrong, you knew immediately that you wanted to sue your doctor. When you tried to talk to them about the mistakes that led to your injuries, they acted like nothing out of the ordinary had...