| Psychiatric Malpractice |
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| Failure to Properly Interpret a Physician's Medication Order |
| When you are being treated in a hospital or in any other healthcare organization, you have the right to expect that you will be given the correct medication in the proper dose at the proper time. However, the number of medication errors is increasing in recent years, and the problem has become a major health care concern. Even though the prescription and administrative of medication is a routine part of medical, nursing, and pharmaceutical practice, deviations from proper practice have the potential to severely injury or even kill an unwary patient.More... |
| Malpractice in Performing Abortions |
| Thousands of legal abortions are performed in this country every year, and although most are completed without complications, there are certain risks connected with the procedure, some of which can be life threatening. A physician must adequately warn the patient of the risks inherent in the procedure. Medical malpractice cases arise when a patient claims that she was not informed about the risks of the procedure or that it was the negligence of her physician that caused or contributed to complications from an abortion. Women who have negligently performed procedures may suffer perforation of the uterus, infection, and endotoxic shock. Some complications resulting from an improperly performed abortion may be long-term, such as an increased risk of certain cancers and future ectopic pregnancies. More... |
| Surgical Malpractice |
| No matter how "routine" a procedure, surgery is always risky. However, not every bad result from surgery is caused by malpractice. Unintended and non-negligent complications arise every day, such as death from an undetected allergic reaction or infection that is guarded against, diagnosed, and treated in a timely and proper fashion but that nevertheless has a devastating effect on the patient's recovery.More... |
| Liability of Ambulance Attendants and Emergency Medical Technicians |
| Many times the first contact that a sick or injured individual has with a hospital is when an ambulance arrives at his home, the attendant and the emergency medical technician work over him, and he is loaded into the ambulance for the trip to the hospital. Now assume that the patient is in even worse shape when he gets to the hospital, and the reason for the decline in his condition appears to be the conduct of the emergency health care provider. Does the patient have a cause of action for medical malpractice against the health care providers or their employers, and if so, do the health care providers have any defenses against the action?More... |
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