Blog: Medical Malpractice
- Patients may leave the OR with a surgical souvenir
May 15, 2017
Although surgical staff must follow special protocol to ensure all equipment is accounted for prior to, during and following a procedure, medical mistakes continue to occur. Updated technology is available to operating rooms across the country. However, many institutions are still at fault for leaving surgical items behind in patients’ incision sites. At least 4,000 times every year, patients leave the operating room with The most frequent object left behind in patients are surgical...Read More - Medical misdiagnosis: What you should know
Apr 14, 2017
If you are similar to many other Americans who seek medical attention in an emergency room or outpatient clinic setting, you expect to be treated by qualified professionals who will find out what is wrong with you and create some sort of treatment plan. Although this is the expected outcome of most doctors office visits, things do not always go as planned. A surprising number of people are misdiagnosed or do not receive a diagnosis...Read More