Surgical Errors

Surgeries, no matter how small, are serious occurrences because there is a lot of opportunity for error. Therefore, only extremely competent medical professionals should undertake them, and they should never treat any with complacency. As a patient, you are likely to...

Plastic surgery is a type of procedure that has become increasingly common in recent years, and this means that while more people have been successful in achieving the physical appearance that they want, there has also been an increase in negative outcomes from...

Losing a loved one to complications from surgery is a heartbreaking experience, and one that nobody should ever have to go through. Surgery for weight loss, such as gastric bypass surgery, carries with it many risks, but it is performed with the intention of improving...

When you are a patient in a surgery that did not go entirely to plan, it is likely that you will have had a long recovery process and wondered whether the traumatic experience that you endured was acceptable under the law. Although things can go wrong in a surgical...

When a person is suffering from chronic back pain, after trying other solutions, medical practitioners may suggest that a surgery is attempted to relieve the pain and solve the issue. However, after this operation, many people not only report that the pain has not...

A plastic surgeon who has appeared on the television show "The Doctors" as well as on the Discovery Channel, stands accused of having ordered several unnecessary surgeries at her Atlanta-area practice, Plastikos. In one of many lawsuits pending against her, a former...

A Never Event has a fairly telling name. In the medical community, it's the term that refers to things that should never happen. Often, it relates to shocking or fatal errors. For example, a patient comes in to have a lung removed. The surgeon operates on the wrong...