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Medical Malpractice Articles:

  • Unforgivable Medical Errors
    Most of us never went to medical school. Most of us never attempted to pass the medical boards. Most of us have never made a diagnosis, or written a prescription, or performed surgery. When we find ourselves ill or hospitalized, we depend on our medical profes...
  • Health Care Providers Charging for Mistakes
    Imagine getting bills from mechanics for replacing your perfectly good transmission when they should have simply changed your oil. Imagine receiving an invoice from your accountant for doing your taxes even though his errors ended up getting you audited. Imagi...
  • Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Caused By Hospital or Doctor Error
    Even doctors and hospitals that have delivered hundreds of babies can make mistakes. However, their medical errors can lead to serious birth injuries and permanent conditions that can affect the child’s life. Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy is a birth in...
  • Errors in Surgery can Happen at Any Time
    Rappaport, Glass, Greene and Levine is a Manhattan based injury law firm that offers legal assistance to those who have been injured in accidents. That includes car accidents, slip and fall accidents, motorcycle or truck accidents and medical malpractice. If ...
  • The Checkered Career of Jan Adams
    Tuesday November 13, 2007- Donda West, the mother and manager of rapper Kanye West, died following cosmetic surgery it has been confirmed. ...
  • Misdiagnosed Hydrocephalus Can Lead to Brain Damage
    Hydrocephalus, also referred to as “water on the brain,” is a serious medical condition that requires immediate treatment. It is defined by MedicineNet.com as “a condition in which the primary characteristic is excessive accumulation of fluid in the brain.” Th...
  • Medical Errors
    The Hearst media corporation has completed an investigation in preventable medical mistakes and the findings are alarming. According to the investigation, preventable medical errors and infections account for approximately 200,000 deaths each year in the Unite...
  • Signs of Medical Malpractice
    How do you know if you are a victim of medical malpractice? As a patient it is hard to pinpoint when malpractice occurs. After all, you are not a trained physician, so how are you supposed to know if something went wrong?...
  • Manhattan Misdiagnosis
    Imagine being sent home from the emergency room with a diagnosis of a gastrointestinal disorder, only to find out later that you suffered a heart attack. This scenario happens at an alarming rate across the country. However, misdiagnosed heart attacks aren’t t...
  • Undiagnosed Diabetes Dangers
    Did you know that you could be suffering from diabetes without even realizing it? Diabetes frequently goes undiagnosed, which can lead to numerous health complications. Undiagnosed diabetes is a huge problem and affects millions of people in the United S...
  • 30 Hours Without Sleep?
    There are laws governing the amount of time that most people are allowed to spend on the job. Some jobs have stricter standards than others. For instance, commercial airline pilots are not supposed to go over a certain amount of hours in the air over a 24 hour...
  • Wrong Side Surgery
    As a culture, we have a great deal of trust in the medical profession. Most of the time this trust is well-allocated, as area doctors and nurses do exemplary work in helping us heal from illnesses and injuries....
  • Prescription Drug Errors
    Many Americans depend on prescription drugs numerous times each day. Some of these drugs treat life-threatening diseases such as heart failure and high cholesterol, while others treat crippling emotional disorders such as extreme anxiety and depression....
  • Hospital Infection
    While hospitals are supposed to be places where people go when they are sick and want to get better, some patients have the opposite experience. Over 2 million infections occur each year as the result of hospital stays, and over 90,000 of these infections lead...
  • Fatigue and Medical Malpractice
    Have you ever been awake and working for 20 hours or more, so long that you start feeling drunk? Have you ever worked without sleep for so long that there were significant spans of your day – people you met, decisions you made, actions you took - that you simp...

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    Young Man Emergency Room Wrongful Death

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