Medical malpractice

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PPSA) officials initiated an investigation into the causes of 889 reported medicinal error cases during the first half of the year in 2016. The investigators determined that many of them were attributable to healthcare...

Have you ever left a doctor’s office feeling like they were too distracted or rushed to really listen to what you were telling them? Did you only realize on the way home from a doctor’s visit that you forgot when they told you to come back for more lab work? Thanks to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...