The successful practice of medicine involves a great deal of skill, insight and intelligence, but it also requires doctors to remain current with industry knowledge.A new dermatological study evidences the large divide that may exist between physicians that evolve to...
Medical Malpractice
Journal: Some Hospitals Fall Short On Basic Infection Prevention
Healthcare-associated infections kill 100,000 each year in the U.S., often because basic safety guidelines are not followed. That is what makes a medical study recently published in the American Journal of Infection Control so disconcerting. Approximately one in five...
How Are Surgical Patients Exposed To Incurable Brain Disease?
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) is an untreatable brain disease affecting one in one million people each year. It is thankful that CJD is rare, because it is often regarded as the human version of "mad cow" disease, quickly transforming healthy brain proteins into...
Surgeon’s Egotism, Drug Use Caused Patients’ Paralysis, Death
The former patients of a surgeon recently filed lawsuits against the hospital that hosted him, arguing that it had knowledge that the doctor was an "an egomaniac, mentally ill, an alcoholic, drug addict or a combination thereof."The lawsuits allege that the hospital,...
After Sepsis-Related Amputations, Girl Settles Lawsuit For $32M
Ashanti Norals, 11, suffered a relatively minor knee injury at school, but hospital negligence led to the amputation of all four of her limbs. To live a quality life, she needs a home modified for her handicaps, a personal assistant, prosthetic limbs and a specialized...
Considering Hip Or Knee Surgery? List Of Best And Worst Hospitals
Choose your hospital for hip or knee replacement surgery wisely, as the complication rate can greatly differ. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has recorded the number of complications that Medicare patients suffered after receiving knee or hip surgery...
Medical Study Suggests That Infant Bedsores Are Wholly Preventable
Bedsores, also known as pressure sores or decubitus ulcers, commonly victimize prematurely-born infants during their stay in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Medical research has revealed that as many as 25 percent of infants born preterm will suffer pressure...
Inadequate Fetal Monitoring Is Common Factor In Birth Asphyxia
Birth asphyxia is a potentially deadly complication that happens when an infant isn't receiving a sufficient amount of oxygen before, during or immediately after birth. Because birth asphyxia may cause severe neurological injuries such as cerebral palsy, it's...
The Impact Of Surgical Items Left Inside The Patient
Many things can go wrong during a surgery, but the majority of patients have an operation that is considered successful and they begin healing normally. Incredibly, about 6,000 patients face severe post-surgery complications - including internal infection and wrongful...
Lawsuit: 6-Year-Old Killed By Medication Dosage Error
A misplaced decimal caused the death of a 6-year-old girl, according to a recent lawsuit against a pharmacy. The child was prescribed morphine to combat sickle cell anemia. Soon after her mother administered the medication in accordance with the pharmacy's directions,...