Symptoms of a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year, 50,000 people in the United States meet fatal ends due to traumatic brain injuries. 235,000 people are hospitalized for such injuries and 1.1 million people receive treatment and are released from hospital emergency departments.
Negligence Risk in Weight Loss Surgeries
According to hospital records, 65,000 to 200,000 people die each year due to medical accidents in the United States. 25,000 to 120,000 is the minimum number of deaths caused by medical negligence. 0.8% to 1% of hospital patients become victims of medical malpractice each year.
BROOKLYN: Drunk Off-Duty NYPD Cop Causes Car Accident Killing One And Injuring Three Pedestrians After Police Officer Crashes SUV Into Sidewalk
CITY MAY BE LIABLE FOR DEADLY CAR ACCIDENT BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (July 16, 2016) One man was killed and three other people were seriously injured when a drunk off-duty NYPD Cop drove his SUV onto the sidewalk, according to the New York Post. Authorities are saying that the crash happened early Saturday morning when the off-duty […]
Value of Lawsuit for Bed Sores
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were 15,600 nursing homes in the United States. As the country’s population grows, as many as 40% of all adults will be admitted to a nursing home at some point in their lives.
Preventive strategies for avoiding medication errors in New York
Medication errors can occur because of negligence in a hospital, clinic, or pharmacy. However, there are also many cases in which patients suffer serious outcomes from medication errors that they have made on their own. It is important to be aware of these errors to avoid the chance of overdose or other serious complications.
Misdiagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
According to a study published in the BMJ Quality & Safety journal, approximately 12 million adults seeking outpatient medical care are misdiagnosed each year in the United States. This amounts to 1 out of 20 adult patients and represents about 5% of outpatient encounters. From the statistics that researchers have produced, in 50% of those cases, there is a potential for serious harm as a result of the misdiagnosis.
Misdiagnosing some serious diseases
New York patients struggling to receive a correct diagnosis may face problems. Some illnesses are misdiagnosed at a much higher rate than others, such as celiac disease, Lyme disease and endometriosis. These three conditions require an elimination of symptoms, which means that patients are often inappropriately diagnosed multiple times before the correct diagnosis is arrived at.
Cardiac Stents and Medical Malpractice
Every day, thousands of heart surgeries are performed in the United States. In fact, 500,000 coronary bypass procedures were performed in one recent year. Although there is a shortage of donor organs, heart transplants are performed on more than 2,300 people each year.
Too Many Lives Lost: The Need for Safer Conditions at Construction Sites
Not long ago, the New York Times reported on a memorial service that took place inside of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Instead of honoring one life, this service honored the lives of 16 construction workers who died in the past year within New York City. Sixteen deaths are far too many, and events like this one […]
Unnecessary Cesarean Section and Medical Malpractice
In the United States, nearly 1 in 3 women gives birth by cesarean section. According to the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, c-sections are too common in the country and have increased significantly since first measured in the 1960s.