I noticed over the weekend that an Oklahoma (OK) man has filed a lawsuit against the surgeon who mistakenly operated on and severely damaged his healthy knee. Earlier this year, William Paul Boykin went to Bailey Medical Center to have arthroscopic surgery to repair damage in one knee. According to court filings summarized in a…
A revealing report indicates over 200,000 people die every year from preventable medical errors and hospital-acquired infections. However, this may be low balling the actual number of preventable deaths considering many states, including Virginia, do not have any mandatory requirements for “adverse event reporting” (i.e. preventable medical errors). Adverse events are defined differently by various…
A new report unveils staggering statistics regarding preventable medical errors that lead to thousands of deaths in the United States each year. One of the most shocking facts is that 100,000 people die due to hospital-acquired infections every year. These are infections people obtain after visiting a hospital. Here’s a video discussing hospital-acquired infections… Most…
Richard Flagg’s days became numbered the instant a New Jersey (NJ) surgical team cut out his healthy lung instead of the one containing a bleeding tumor in 2000. That surgery error made Flagg dependent on oxygen bottles and wheelchairs until his death in 2003. Flagg’s story is one of many told in a series of…
A visit to a hospital doubles your risk of death compared to driving on a highway in the United States. This is just one of the shocking revelations reported by Hearst on hospital safety in America. Nearly 200,000 people die each year from medical errors and infections obtained while admitted in a hospital. Our law…