If your child was diagnosed with cerebral palsy shortly after birth, there is little doubt that you experienced feelings of anxiety and sadness. It is not unusual. You expected a healthy baby and had already been planning for its future. Those dreams have been altered, and you are left wondering…
It is not unusual for people to put medical professionals on pedestals. We assume that they are more intelligent than the average person. When doctors and other medical professionals make mistakes, we feel a sense of disappointment and disbelief. It’s important to remember that doctors are human, too. Errors occur,…
A mother in Pasco County, Florida is taking on the law, and not in a way that you may think. The woman has not been arrested. She is not a criminal. What she is is a grieving mother who has lost her son and is finding that she has very…
A study, although conducted in 2001, pointed out that medication errors were three times more likely to occur in children than adults. The rate of other medical errors was comparable. As a parent, the last thing you expect when visiting the pediatrician with your child is negligence or error. Unfortunately,…
A woman from Newark, New Jersey was recently awarded a $9 million settlement. According to The NY Post, it is the largest payout made by Health and Hospitals Corp. in the last fiscal year. According to reports, Ebony Curry, a woman with autism, fell down a flight of stairs in…
When you don’t feel quite like yourself, you deserve to know why. You deserve to know why without unnecessary delay. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to pinpoint the exact cause of an illness when so many symptoms can be indicative of different ailments. It is difficult to determine just…
People check into the hospital for surgery on a daily basis. In fact, there are just under 50 million surgeries performed in the United States each year. Most surgeries performed are necessary and many improve or save lives. Scarily for some, as many as 50 percent of the surgeries performed…
A doctor in England may soon be paying for a very serious mistake. Dr. Nanikram Vaswani, employed by Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool, performed a vasectomy on the wrong patient. He now faces the loss of his license as his “patient” deals with physical and emotional trauma. The patient’s name has…
In a medical malpractice lawsuit, one of the elements to be proven is “standard of care.” But what exactly does that mean? It is important that you understand the term because you will be talking about it frequently as you move forward with a medical malpractice lawsuit. Our lawyers explain…
A 54-year-old woman in Linn County filed a medical malpractice claim against the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics to the tune of $15 million. The woman claims that a surgery she underwent caused paralysis and affected her ability to speak. She also claims she suffered other injuries her lawyers…