Exploring doctor history
While the odds are low that a given doctor may have a checkered past, it is difficult for New York patients to find out. This is according to findings from Consumer Reports after obtaining a list of all California doctors on probation as of the later portion of 2015. There were 500 doctors on probation at the time, and the offenses ranged from inappropriate sexual conduct with patients to practicing while under the influence.
Can You Sue for Pressure Sores or Bedsores?
According to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, there were more than 455,000 cases of pressure sores among hospital patients in 2003. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2004, 159,000 nursing home residents in the United States suffered from pressure sores.
The Damage Caused by what Surgeons Leave Behind
According to research from Johns Hopkins University, “never events”, or events that should never happen in surgery, occur at least 4,000 times annually in the United States. It also revealed that “never events” occurred more than 80,000 times between 1990 and 2010.
Organ Transplant and Medical Malpractice
In the United States, there are currently over 123,000 people – men, women, and children – who are in need of organ transplants to save their life. Another name is added every 10 minutes to the national organ transplant waiting list. Unfortunately, an average of 21 people die every day due to delays in receiving the organ they need. In 2014, roughly 24,000 organ transplants are made possible by over 8,500 deceased donors and nearly 6,000 transplants from living donors.
Preventing medication errors
New York patients should know that an estimated 7,000 people around the country die annually due to medication errors, and a total of about 1 million errors happen each year in U.S. hospitals. In one 2016 case, an 87-year-old woman was rushed to the emergency room due to a high fever, and her sister gave the ER doctor the woman’s medical history and a list of the medications she was on including some that had been recently added for cognitive issues.
Patient claims doctors attempted to cover up surgery error
New York patients may be interested to learn that a 60-year-old claimed in a lawsuit that a Connecticut hospital removed the wrong body part during a surgical procedure. She claimed that the doctors then attempted to cover up the mistake.
Risk Management and Medical Malpractice
It is projected that the health care employment sector, employment will increase 19% from 2014 to 2024, adding about 2.3 million new jobs, which is more rapid than the average for all occupations considering policy killing jobs and high taxes are in effect and making this recession last much longer than it should have. Occupations in health care will add more jobs than any other industry but the job growth here would be much greater if the ACA was never passed and America was kinder to the private sector.
Pursuing a Psychiatric Malpractice Claim
Like anywhere else, America has its fair share of people who seek mental medical help. Thousands and thousands of people across the nation seek treatment each year.
Nursing Home Neglect and Medical Malpractice
According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, a study found that 44% of nursing home residents report abuse and 95% report neglect of themselves or other residents within the past year. Of the abuse that is being reported in nursing homes – 29% is physical abuse; 21% is psychological abuse; 14% is gross neglect; 7% is sexual abuse; 7% is financial exploitation; and 22% is resident-to-resident abuse. Another study found that more than 50% of nursing home staff report mistreating residents within the past year.
Hysterectomy and Medical Malpractice
Hysterectomy is the second most common procedure among women in the United States. More than 22,000,000 have had a hysterectomy. According to 2011 Women’s Health Stats from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), over 500,000 hysterectomies are performed annually and 33.3% women will have this procedure by the age of 60. In 2008, 18% of all hysterectomies were performed as outpatient surgeries.