Surgeons, Nurses and Hospital Have Duties to Prevent Surgical Errors
The existence of safe surgery checklists and universal standards for surgical practice constitute enforceable protections for medical malpractice victims.
The existence of safe surgery checklists and universal standards for surgical practice constitute enforceable protections for medical malpractice victims.
Many Suffolk, Virginia (VA) patients are terrified at the prospect of suffering a serious injury or losing their life at a hospital due to a doctor or surgeon’s mistake. This error might happen when you’re under the knife (i.e. during surgery) or while you’re receiving a powerful prescription medication at the hospital. This fear is…
Previous studies indicated that a stroke victim only had three hours to get diagnosed as VA medical malpractice lawyers we are interested in these new findings.
If you have been a victim of a medical error, contact a Virginia malpractice attorney to find out what legal recourse you may have.
Research published in 2016 identified medical errors as the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States. The estimated combined total of misdiagnoses, botched surgeries, hospital-acquired infections and giving the wrong drug or wrong dose of medication to a patient was then 251,000 lives ended too soon. That outpaced lung diseases, strokes and…