Surgical Errors

If you suffer injury at the hands of a doctor, you will likely want to know why. Why did someone with so much training get something so wrong? It’s almost certainly not because they don't care and usually not because they didn’t know what they were doing or had never...

When you visit a health care provider, you trust them to provide competent care based on their expertise and training. However, it’s not always the case. When a medical professional fails to meet the standard of care, the impact on a patient can be significant, with...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of lifelong movement disorders that, among other things, affect a person's ability to maintain balance and posture. It's the most common motor disability in childhood, and while the causes can be varied, some cases may be linked to...

When you check into the hospital you expect the medical team to make your condition better. Generally, this is precisely what happens. Unfortunately, there are occasions when things don’t go according to plan.  Every year over 1 million patients are impacted by...

Negative outcomes do occur in the medical industry. Not every patient gets the results they are hoping for. Someone may get treated for cancer but still pass away from the disease, for example. A doctor may put in a stent after a heart attack, but the patient may have...

People who need surgery expect their surgeon to do their best to ensure the procedure is a success. While there aren’t any guarantees for surgical outcomes, surgeons are expected to uphold the standard of care and follow proper protocol during the procedure.  There...

For many years, doctors were afraid to offer anything that resembled an apology for a mistake – whether it was a failure to diagnose a condition sooner, a treatment that only made a patient worse or a surgical error. That’s because they feared that even an expression...

There are no guarantees in medical practice. A procedure that has had a 0% complication rate for a physician historically could result in catastrophic failure one day. As a patient, you need to have accurate information so that you can decide what treatment to...

Managing medications isn't always easy, but you would expect that medical professionals are better at it than you are as a patient. It is true that some people do make mistakes while administering their own prescription drugs. However, there are also thousands of...