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No one enjoys being in the hospital, and patients look forward to their discharge so they can return home. However, a crucial aspect of a doctor’s and a medical facility’s duty of care is to ensure that a patient is discharged from care safely, at the right time, with the key information and the necessary…

Parents spend months planning their child’s joyous entry into the world, but when something goes wrong, joy can quickly turn to anxiety for the child’s future. Cerebral palsy is one of the most serious outcomes of preventable birth injuries. Unfortunately, no legal process erases the permanent injury to your child, but if your child’s cerebral…

Safe, effective medications are a key aspect of healthcare, saving lives, extending lifespans, and improving the quality of life for millions of people daily. But medications are also powerful products with the potential for great harm when they are defective or include a dangerous ingredient.It’s frightening to learn that a medication that’s been prescribed to…

When you are in the hospital for an illness, injury, or medical procedure, you’re put into a vulnerable position that requires you to trust that all staff members involved in your care uphold their legal duty to treat you at the medical community’s accepted care standards. Unfortunately, sometimes a provider breaches their duty of care,…

Cancer is a devastating and deadly disease. One of the most frustrating aspects of cancer is that it’s almost always curable when caught in its earliest stages. Once the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes and then to other organs in stages three and four, it is typically terminal. Unfortunately, even when an individual…

We are at our most vulnerable when unconscious and incapacitated during surgery, placing our trust, health, and very lives into the hands of a surgeon and their surgical team. Unfortunately, sometimes a surgeon or medical team makes a serious error during surgery, resulting in irreparable harm. While not all adverse surgical outcomes are medical malpractice,…

When we consider medical care, we think of procedures, bandages, medical tools, and injections. A less obvious but tremendously important aspect of patient care is medical record-keeping. While record-keeping occurs behind the scenes, it’s crucial to ensure safe and effective patient care. A medical record error, oversight, or omission can result in significant harm to…

Misdiagnosis – including missed, delayed, and wrong diagnoses – leads to an estimated 371,000 deaths and 424,000 permanent disabilities in the U.S. each year, according to a 2021 study. To address the problem, the Centers for Disease Control and two agencies released last year a diagnostic error “toolkit” for hospital leaders and health care personnel….