Flu shots may not be the most pleasant experience in life, but you should feel good about taking care of your health and protecting the people around you during flu season. The last thing you want to worry about is whether the person administering the shot will do his or her job correctly. Imagine a […]
Surgical procedures are not without risks, which any surgeon will explain to patients before their operations begin. However, what happens when the surgery goes perfectly, but because of medical negligence on the part of the surgical team, there are still problems? One Louisiana woman is suing a local hospital after her husband passed away following […]
In a case that has been ongoing for several years, a twenty-three-year-old Missouri man is suing his dentist for pulling thirty-two teeth that did not need to be pulled. The patient claims that he was suffering from a tooth abscess, and so he sought the help of his dentist in 2009. Upon examining his patient, […]
Medical malpractice is defined as any time a licensed health care provider digresses from what is considered to be a normal standard of care for a patient. Basically, medical malpractice indicates that a physician has been negligent, and these claims can be difficult to prove. However, with your St. Louis personal injury attorney on your […]
As a doctor, Dr. Julio Diaz took an oath to promote good health in his patients, and never cause harm. However, of the many patients who were prescribed an incredible amount of pain medication by Diaz, eleven of them have died. Others are suffering from severe drug addiction. According to the article on the UPI website, Dr. […]
More and more doctors have started performing tonsillectomies as a way to treat sleep apnea in their patients. However, some medical professionals are saying that these procedures are too risky to perform on certain populations because there has not been enough research done to prove their effectiveness. A thirteen-year-old California girl underwent a tonsillectomy earlier […]
One former hospital employee was sentenced recently for infecting dozens of patients with Hepatitis C, according to an article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website. The thirty-four-year-old man would steal pain killers in the hospitals he worked in, and replace them with saline-filled syringes that had his own blood on them. Many patients used these […]
According to Forbes.com, medical negligence is the third leading cause of death in the United States. That puts it right behind heart disease and cancer. Many people have a significant reason for pursuing a medical malpractice case, but they are unsure about the facts. Here are a few for you to consider, as you think […]
A Springfield, Mo. man has files a medical malpractice suit against Mercy Clinic in Springfield, Mo. and two of its physicians, claiming that they failed to provide proper treatment to prevent the spread of flesh-eating bacteria. Claiming he was denied emergency room treatment because he did not have health insurance, a claim the clinic disputes, […]
