When you arrive at the hospital for a surgical appointment, you rightfully expect the medical staff, hospital, and surgeon to take every possible precaution to ensure your safety. While all surgeries, no matter how routine, are inherently risky, surgeons are expected to perform procedures without making avoidable mistakes, such as those caused by incompetence or…
Medical gaslighting is a pervasive and concerning phenomenon that occurs within healthcare settings, where patients’ concerns, symptoms, or experiences are dismissed, invalidated, or downplayed by medical professionals. The term “gaslighting” originated in a play and its subsequent films, in which a character manipulates another into doubting their own reality. In the medical context, gaslighting takes…
Imagine being told that the life of your child is only worth $2.6 million. Our Virginia Beach medical malpractice lawyers understand that the loss of a child is one of the most devastating events that any parent can experience, but when that loss is the result of a hospital medical error or mistake by the…
Medical malpractice occurs when a healthcare provider, such as a physician, nurse, or hospital, causes injury to a patient by failing to meet the standard of care expected of those in the medical profession. Medical malpractice cases can be extremely complicated because they involve issues such as misdiagnosis, negligence, prescription errors, surgical errors, and more….
In the United States, many births take place without complications or trauma. Sadly, about seven out of every 1,000 newborns will be affected by a birth injury. Current statistics provided by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project show that roughly 158,000 avoidable birth injuries happen every year. If you feel that your baby’s birth injury…