Medical Malpractice Articles

There are a number of serious medical mistakes that lead to medical malpractice lawsuits, including misdiagnosis, medication errors, and patient infections due…

Some estimates place preventable medical errors as the third-leading killer in America, behind only heart disease and cancer. Researchers at Johns Hopkins…

Preventable medical errors have been estimated to be the third leading cause of death in the United States, responsible for the deaths…

Some estimates place hospital-acquired infections as the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Are copper beds the answer to…

A new partner has publicly joined the movement to end preventable medical errors that lead to the deaths of hospital patients. In…

According to a leading patient safety organization, more than six out of 10 surgeries are now performed in outpatient facilities.  But just…

In a dire medical emergency, patients may be given a breathing tube to help save their lives.  However, mistakes made by medical…

Surgeon operating on the wrong part of a patient’s body.  Administering the wrong medicine or giving the right medicine but in the…

Before undergoing an operation that is deemed risky, a good idea is to find out first how often that hospital has performed…

Surgical site infections are at times the result of an avoidable mistake made by the surgeon or the surgery care team. There…

A leading patient safety organization found that avoidable medical errors made in hospitals cause nearly 450 patient deaths each day in the…

Contaminated hospital operating rooms, equipment or medical staff can lead to serious infections in surgical patients. Infections that patients suffer from surgical…