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December, 2014

Patient Dumping: An Overview of the EMTALA

December 31, 2014

Patient dumping is an illegal and unethical practice that occurs when a hospital that is capable of treating a patient refuses to treat that patient, turns that patient away and/or sends that patient to another facility due to that patient’s inability to pay for essential medical care. In 1986, Congress Read More

Emergency Room Errors: Here’s What You Should Know (Pt. 2)

November 30, 2014

Picking up from where we left off in Military Emergency Room Errors: Here’s What You Should Know (Pt. 1), below we will continue to discuss some important info that you may want to know about this potentially devastating type of medical negligence. While the first part of this blog series Read More

Emergency Room Errors: Here’s What You Should Know (Pt. 1)

October 30, 2014

Emergency rooms and other critical care settings are chaotic places where important decisions need to be made quickly in order to save lives. While we all depend on emergency rooms when we need immediate medical attention, what we may not realize is that ERs can be places where serious medical Read More

4 Common Risk Factors for Misdiagnoses and Medical Malpractice (Pt. 2)

September 30, 2014

Wrapping up our two-part blog 4 Common Risk Factors for Misdiagnoses and Medical Malpractice (Pt. 1), below we will continue discussing the factors that most commonly contribute to misdiagnoses in the U.S. More Common Reasons Why Misdiagnoses Happen So Often in the U.S… 3. The Diffuse State of the Modern Read More

4 Common Risk Factors for Misdiagnoses and Medical Malpractice (Pt. 1)

August 30, 2014

Misdiagnoses are an all-too-common and deadly form of medical malpractice. In fact, recently published studies have found that, every year in the U.S., more than 12 million people are misdiagnosed. Putting this into perspective, this means that at least 1 in every 20 people in the U.S. is misdiagnosed when Read More

VA Reform Bill Brings Optimism for Effective Change in VA Facilities

July 30, 2014

The Veterans Affairs (VA) reform bill that has been making its way through Congress may soon be passed, as legislators from both sides of the political playing field have finally come to some compromises about various aspects of this bill. With many of the major elements of the VA reform Read More

Ask These Questions When You Suspect Malpractice (Part 2)

April 1, 2014

Concluding the two-part blog Ask These Questions When You Suspect Malpractice, below are some more questions that you should ask yourself when you believe that a doctor or other medical professional may have committed some type of malpractice in the course of your treatment. If you suspect that you have Read More

Ask These Questions When You Suspect Malpractice (Part 1)

March 7, 2014

Knowing when malpractice has occurred and been the cause of injuries is not always easy to decipher, especially when a person may be suffering from various health impairments. However, when malpractice is suspected, there are some specific questions that a person can ask him- or herself to get a better Read More

Diagnostic Errors and Medical Malpractice Claims (Part 2)

February 8, 2014

Continuing from Diagnostic Errors and Medical Malpractice Claims (Part 1), here we will carry on our discussion of how health care professionals’ mistakes when it comes to diagnosing patients can result in serious injuries and be the bases of malpractice claims. While the first part of this blog provided some Read More

Diagnostic Errors and Medical Malpractice Claims (Part 1)

January 21, 2014

Misdiagnoses are the most expensive type of medical malpractice cases that are filed against the medical community, according to a recent study published in BMJ Quality and Safety (April 2013). In fact, according to the results of this research, which focused on medical malpractice claims filed from 1986 through 2010: Read More

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