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...
Hospital Negligence
What Is A Private “Nonprofit” Hospital?
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 impact patients every day: Here’s what to know
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...
Arizona Court of Appeals Affirms $4.25M Judgment Against Hospital For Negligence
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...
Thousands of patient ID errors occur every year
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...
Across the country, hospital alarms are, well, alarming
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...
Truly chilling implications: when hospitals get hacked
When readers hear the words "restoring normal operations," they might reasonably think of something like getting the lights back on at the ballpark following a power outage. Getting back to normal might also apply to something like getting the planes back in the air...
The list is long: malpractice insurer details doctors’ errors
It is reasonable to assume that a medical malpractice insurance provider knows a thing or two about the underlying causes that drive litigation claims filed by injured patients and their families.Put another way: An insurer that seeks to protect doctors and other...
Resting in a hospital? Now there’s a concept.
Have you ever been a patient in an Arizona hospital?If so, do you have memories of softly drifting into a deep and relaxing sleep that lasted for hours each night, with hospital staff members doing everything they could to dampen noise levels and surrounding...
Update on superbug infections: materially understated
Many of our readers across Maricopa County and Arizona likely remember with crystal clarity -- and perhaps unchecked horror -- news that began surfacing in 2012 regarding the outbreak in some hospitals in the United States and abroad of a so-called "superbug."That...
