You go to the doctor or the hospital because you think you’re having a heart attack. The doctor makes a diagnosis, but they mistake your heart attack for something else. This delays treatment, increases the odds of death and puts you at serious risk. Even if things...
Medical malpractice
Are you overly anxious about your health or is your doctor wrong?
You start to feel sick. Fearing that it’s serious, you go to the doctor. They look at you for a few minutes, tell you that you appear to be fine, and send you home. Maybe they recommend that you get some rest or drink more fluids, but they don’t seem to think it’s...
How triage practices can fail you at the emergency room
Sometimes, emergency rooms can go a long time without any new admissions, only to then get slammed by multiple people needing attention immediately. When an emergency room is busy, the medical professionals handling the influx of patients engage in triage to make the...
Dirty vaccine needles can cause infections
When the disposable syringes came on the market, people thought that that was the end of the risk from dirty needles in a hospital setting. If doctors who were administering drugs and vaccines didn’t need to use the same needles repeatedly, there couldn’t be any...
Commonly misdiagnosed illnesses
We all rely on doctors to be able to help us when we are sick or injured. Sometimes, doctors are unable to provide the level of care that we need through medical malpractice. Diagnosis errors are among the most prevalent forms of medical malpractice, and some...
Why do medical providers fail to diagnose strokes?
A stroke is a common condition that most people know at least something about. They know that it causes people to speak oddly or that one side of the face may droop. With such common symptoms and good education, the surprising thing is that many strokes are still...
What kinds of vaccine injuries could you suffer?
Vaccines, on the whole, are safe for people to take. Unfortunately, even though they help many people, there are some who will suffer real, unavoidable injuries as a result of receiving them. Vaccines are all different, so the materials used to make up one may not be...
How common is misdiagnosis?
We rely on the expertise of doctors to help us heal. From identifying our ailments to finding the medication or procedure that helps us move toward recovery, their insights are necessary in almost every aspect of treatment. When that expertise fails, though,...
A wrong diagnosis can lead to 2 different types of harm
When a doctor makes a mistake and diagnoses a patient with a specific condition which that patient does not have, it leads to all manner of issues. Patients usually trust their doctors and do not often question them. This gives doctors a certain sort of power, as...
Do medical mistakes lead to far more deaths than you think?
How many people do you believe pass away from medical mistakes and errors every year? You know it happens, but would you say that it’s fairly rare? This is the view most people have. They hardly think about medical errors until they’re about to go in for surgery...