The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1.4 million U.S. residents suffer a brain injury every year. Many of these injuries are the result of negligent or intentional actions by another person or entity, such as a company that makes a faulty product. If you or someone you love has suffered a …

Laser eye surgery is becoming a very common practice for people who would like to have better eyesight without the need of contact or glasses. Like it sounds, laser eye surgery is performed by taking a laser to the eye, and making corrections to one’s eyesight that way. Like any surgery, there are risks involved …

Medical malpractice is very unfortunate, though there is something that can be done about it. Bowel perforation is something that some consider malpractice, though there is some question revolving around it. Bowel injury is typically something that results from a puncture of the bowel wall during an abdominal procedure or tissue injury that results in …

Undergoing surgery is often a terrifying situation that many people go through every day. Patients put their trust in medical professionals to provide them with safe and well-thought-out procedures. Every surgery comes with various risks that both the doctor and the patient are often well aware of. What a patient would never expect is for …

When you go to the doctor, you trust that they will take the time needed to diagnose your condition and provide you with an effective treatment plan. The problem is that doctors don’t always accurately diagnose patients’ medical conditions. In fact, far too many illnesses are either misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all. Whether it’s …

A prescription drug error is a specific type of medical malpractice that can have devastating consequences. When a medication error results, it can be the result of many things, including the following: Wrong Medication A patient might receive the wrong medication and there are a few different ways this can happen. If the patient fills …

It can be completely heartbreaking to discover a loved one has been abused at the nursing home they’re living in. After all, their caregivers are meant to do just that: provide care. Nobody expects that their loved one will be abused, and it can be shocking when evidence of this abuse surfaces. Sadly, sometimes these …

A doctor from Morganville New Jersey recently lost his medical license as a result of failing to properly care for an inmate at Northern State Prison in Newark, NJ. The 64-year-old doctor, a resident of Morganville NJ, worked as the medical director at the Newark prison. One of the doctor’s patients at the prison was …

The mother of a young boy in Colorado is blaming a pharmacy for her son’s death and bringing allegations of medical malpractice. Caroline Steinbrecher said that her son, eight-year-old Jake Steinbrecher, received medication for his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, instead of getting his normal dosage of 0.03mg from the pharmacy, the kid got a 30mg …

A recent report indicates that up to 20 percent of all people who die as a result of trauma in United States emergency rooms and hospitals could potentially be saved by better medical treatment and/or quicker access to high-quality medical treatment. The report was conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) …