Receiving the right prescription medicine is not only important to relieve your symptoms, but it might keep you from further illness or death. This is because if medication errors cause you to take the wrong drug, you could endanger your health and perhaps your life....
When you feel unlike yourself, you may visit your Missouri doctor with the hope that he or she is going to be able to identify what is ailing you and instruct you on what you need to do to get better. Yet, things do not always work out this way. Making a correct...
For safety and comfort, anesthesia is a necessary part of surgery. Despite this, it is still dangerous, especially if errors occur during administration or monitoring. The safety of anesthesia often depends on the anesthesiologist having all the background information...
Medical malpractice cases are difficult for a number of reasons, and one of them is that it is not often easy to pinpoint who is responsible for the malpractice. In some cases, it may be the doctor, in others, it may be the hospital and in yet others it might be both....
You trust a doctor to do what your condition warrants to treat whatever ails you. This may prove the wrong course of treatment should you have a misdiagnosis. When a doctor diagnoses you with an illness or condition that turns out incorrect, the impact on your life...
Taking the wrong kind of medicine or an inaccurate amount of pills can leave you with serious health issues. The source of this problem often comes from medication errors that originate during an office visit. Medical professionals who work in busy offices often have...
After you have discussed your health problems with your doctor, you expect that your physician will accurately diagnose what is wrong with you. Unfortunately, some patients receive a misdiagnosis that does not direct them to the correct treatment. Some people suffer...
A doctor operating on the wrong part of your body is something you should never have to worry about as a surgery patient. It may seem like a mistake that all surgeons would be on the lookout for, but sometimes doctors fail to take precautions to avoid surgery errors....
Whether you are trying to deal with the aftermath of a birth injury caused by a physician's negligence or you worry about the possibility of complications during the birthing process, birth trauma can generate intense emotions. Sadly, many things can go wrong during...
Diagnostic mistakes pose a major problem in the U.S. In fact, Medical News Today reports that misdiagnosis represents the most frequent and most serious type of medical error, accounting for over 40,000 annual deaths in U.S. hospitals. Given that there are over 10,000...
