When you read this, you may want to be sitting down – preventable medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets a week. Yes, you read that correctly. Four jumbo jets worth of innocent victims who lost their lives due to medical mistakes that could have been prevented with due care. The shocking statistics do…
None of us can control our fate in a hospital. But pro-active patients can help to decrease their risk of these five hospital complications.
One of the biggest fears many patients have when being admitted to a Portsmouth, Virginia (VA) hospital is getting seriously injured or losing their life due to a doctor or surgeon’s mistake. This mistake may occur while you’re under the knife (i.e. during surgery) or while you’re receiving a powerful prescription medication. You are justified…
Many women have a hysterectomy performed for a variety of reasons. The hysterectomy can be performed in a number of ways including laparoscopically through the use of an incision (laparotomy) through the vagina, and a combination of laparoscopy and vaginal access (vaginally assisted hysterectomy). Medical and surgical errors can, and do, occur if the surgeon is…
Overmedication is one of the more subtle forms of nursing home abuse – and can even be used on the elderly to hide other more common forms of abuse such as nursing home physical abuse, nursing home sexual abuse, and nursing home financial abuse.