The education and training required to become a surgeon are intense – four years of college, four years of medical school, and three to eight years of surgical residency. All of this training is supposed to teach surgeons how to avoid major surgical errors. Yet thousands of patients are injured because of careless surgical errors….
Medical imaging tests, such as x-rays, CAT scans, and MRIs, have proven to be extremely beneficial in helping doctors diagnose medical issues in patients. However, like many medical tests and procedures, these imaging tests come with potential health risks because of the exposure the patient has to radiation that is used in the imaging process….
While a misdiagnosis can happen to anyone who goes to a doctor suffering from some type of medical ailment, multiple studies reveal that women have a much greater chance of being misdiagnosed than men. These studies reveal just how common it is for women to spending years going back and forth between doctors, trying to…
The World Health Organization has recently adopted a resolution intended to reduce the number of instances of medical malpractice occurring during all types of surgery. This includes open procedures (laparotomies), as well as procedures using small incisions to allow the introduction of surgical instruments into the body (laparoscopies). The resolution calls for each surgical team…
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