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For decades, federal law and court precedent have effectively prevented military service members from taking legal action against the government because of injuries that they suffered in the line of duty. Under the Feres Doctrine, injured soldiers and grieving...
Imagine that you go in for surgery on your left knee. You have been having problems with it for some time and you can often barely walk. You're excited to get it fixed. Everything seems fine before the surgery, and they put you under to do the procedure. Then you wake...
Have you seen the commercial where a surgeon leaves his cellphone inside of a patient and only finds out when he gets a call after the procedure? It's meant to be funny, but it's not nearly as far from the truth as you may assume. The reality is that surgeons do leave...
There is a term in the medical community, which refers to some situations as "never-events." These have been described as preventable and serious mistakes. In short, they are things that should never happen -- and yet they do. Two examples of never-events are...
If you suffer from kidney disease and go to a Hinesville hospital to have your diseased kidney removed, you certainly would next expect your surgeon to remove the healthy and functioning one instead. The same holds true if you are expecting to be treated for the...
If you wind up in the hospital for surgery, you depend on your surgeon to execute the procedure without causing you additional harm. But unfortunately, things can occur that are termed "never events" because if the proper protocols are followed, theoretically they...
If you go into the hospital for surgery, you expect that the nurses and doctors responsible for your care and treatment will be at the top of their games. They certainly would be sober, as well as alert and well-rested, right? But as it turns out, sleep deprivation in...
The term "never event" is a bit of a misnomer since these disastrous medical mistakes happen with alarming frequency. A former chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Quality Forum (NQF) coined the term back in 2001 to refer to errors that should never have...
Surgical errors are horrific mistakes made by surgeons, nurses and other medical professionals who are present when a patient is undergoing surgery. It doesn't matter if you are undergoing a routine procedure or a five-hour surgery to remove a tumor; there's always...
Surgical errors happen all too often in hospitals all across Georgia and the rest of the country. There are many different ways you can be a victim of a surgical error. You might not realize you are a victim until you've been sent home from the hospital and something...