Hospital Negligence

Getting admitted into a hospital is unsettling whether you have a planned surgery or are rushed to the emergency room. When you are admitted into a hospital you trust that the doctors, nurses, and other staff will provide you with appropriate and adequate medical...

If you or a loved one was denied emergency care or released from the hospital before the condition was stabilized, can you sue for medical malpractice? Federal Laws Regulate Emergency Treatment Before the enactment of the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active...

Your medical care can go wrong in a hospital. Instead of getting better, you suffer harm due to a doctor’s negligence. Can the hospital be held responsible for a doctor’s negligence? In Arizona you may sue an employer if one of its employees commits negligence which...

When you go to a doctor or a hospital for your usual injections, you expect it to go as planned. It should be a quick process, without any complications. Unfortunately, a nurse may grab the wrong medication. Instead of the steroid you expect, you receive an...

In a recent letter to the editor of the New York Times, a physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at NYU, Danielle Ofri, addressed this issue.Hospitals in the US fall into three financial categories: 1) private hospitals (responsible to...

Never events, which are appropriately named for being events that should have never happened, are medical mistakes or errors made that should have been easily avoided. Some common never events include operating on the wrong patient, operating on the wrong part of the...

You went to the hospital for care, but you ended up with an infection that your body can't seem to shake. You've been hospitalized for weeks, taking antibiotics, receiving fluids and generally struggling to survive. You didn't expect your emergency room visit to end...

In Orosco v. MCSHCD, the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the jury's $4.25M verdict for permanent injuries a patient suffered when a resident and nurse decided to not tell anyone they lost a two-foot metal guide wire. The wire was lost in the patient, causing the...

It may have already happened to you.A pharmacist gave you the wrong dosage of a regular medicine you take-you noticed, because the tablets had a different look. You reported the error, and it was quickly fixed. But imagine if you had taken the wrong dosage. How would...

Where patient safety is concerned, more rather than less data trumps, right?And in the sphere of hospital alarms, specifically, it must assuredly be the case that more beeping and chiming to alert nurses and other staff members of patient-related needs and concerns is...