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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….

During an illness or after an accident, we place tremendous trust in our doctors, anticipating that they will treat our health and lives as carefully as they would their own. Unfortunately, sometimes medical providers fail to live up to the standard of care accepted by the medical community, with devastating results to patients, including injuries,…

It’s not uncommon for someone to underperform on the job, but doctors are held to a higher standard. Underperformance in the medical field can lead to a patient’s worsened outcome or death. When a doctor/patient relationship has been established, the doctor must meticulously assess the patient, perform appropriate diagnostic tests, accurately interpret the test results,…