Hospital Negligence

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Regardless of how the following numbers are massaged, they certainly don't look good for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This bulleted summary of things gone wrong for the VA will certainly cause many of our readers across Arizona and elsewhere to duly...

"Your body is your business!" That is the succinct and forceful reminder of a doctor/media commentator on personal health and care delivery to would-be and actual patients everywhere. Put another way: If you or a family member has health issues that are even remotely...

We note on a relevant page of our website at the Maricopa County medical malpractice law firm of Harris Powers & Cunningham that medical facility-based negligence occurs across a wide universe of patient-inflicted harms. On a web page discussing hospital injuries,...

Here's a central Catch-22 regarding a key aspect of medical care in Arizona and across the country, according to a doctor who recently wrote an article on care delivery for a national online media outlet.On the one hand, notes Dr. Art Papier, good physicians are...