Medical Malpractice

Doctors are human. They feel stress, boredom, surprise and tiredness. A doctor specializing in sleep and sleep deprivation understands these demands and conditions well. These experts realize the public wants all medical professionals to be perfect. Part of this expectation...

Each day, throughout the state of Pennsylvania individuals are injured due to negligence of another person or entity. This harm can take many different forms including car accidents, workplace accident and medical malpractice. One of the more commonly reported types...

Patients in hospitals put their trust in the institution and individuals providing their care. When this trust is abused problems can arise. While there are many things that need to be monitored while someone is receiving treatment in a hospital,...

As an internist at Johns Hopkins Hospital so graphically states, "Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country that we're just not catching." Most patients consistently trust that their medical professional in Pennsylvania and everywhere else is...

While in the hospital, nurses are the primary care providers for patients. Oftentimes hospital units are crowded and busy. Staffing shortages may require nurses to care for and be responsible for the health and wellbeing of several patients. In these...

The New York Court of Appeals is considering the case of a Long Island doctor who had a nine-month affair with a client. Arguing that the affair was consensual and separate from her treatment program, the doctor hopes the court...

The birth of a child is undoubtedly one of the most amazing and memorable events in any mother's life. When obstetrician malpractice occurs, however, both mother and child can face life-altering permanent injuries. A California woman recently filed a medical...

Physicians and other medical personnel often share information about hospital negligence and treatment errors, along with unsafe conditions. This is true for hospitals in Pennsylvania and everywhere else. Some hospitals penalize these professionals for reporting poor treatment quality and patient...

Doctors and nurses are highly trained medical professionals who have patients' best interest in mind. Even doctors and nurses with years of experience, however, can make mistakes. In fact, an estimated 250,000 Americans die each year as a result of...

Medication errors harm individuals throughout the state of Pennsylvania each day. These errors come in several different forms including incorrect labeling, incorrect dosage and as the recent meningitis outbreak illustrates, the way in which the medications are made. At this...

When a medical emergency presents, a doctor must quickly take action. What happens, however, if that doctor has been awake for more than 20 hours? Not surprisingly it turns out that the likelihood that a medical mistake will result increases...

As medical professionals, doctors are essentially "hired" by patients to identify and diagnose possible health problems and recommend the most effective treatment options. In an effort to catch potential health problems, most patients willingly submit to medical tests. Some, however,...