If you or a loved one suffered a serious injury during a medical procedure and want to pursue a medical malpractice claim, you will likely learn about the “medical standard of care” when approaching most Virginia medical malpractice injury attorneys. Physicians and nurses have a medical standard of care that they are held to in…
Research published in 2016 identified medical errors as the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States. The estimated combined total of misdiagnoses, botched surgeries, hospital-acquired infections and giving the wrong drug or wrong dose of medication to a patient was then 251,000 lives ended too soon. That outpaced lung diseases, strokes and…
Every year, doctors and surgeons leave more than 1,500 items inside their patients by accident, according to WebMD. You read that right – 1,500 items are left inside a person’s body. These items include: Surgical medical clamps Needles Knives/knife blades Sponges Towels While some of the surgical tools are found quickly following patient pain and an x-ray, others are…
The time you have to take legal action against a negligent doctor, nurse, pharmacist, surgeon, clinic, hospital or pharmacy will depend on the identity of the victim and the nature of the medical error.
Many women have a hysterectomy performed for a variety of reasons. The hysterectomy can be performed in a number of ways including laparoscopically through the use of an incision (laparotomy) through the vagina, and a combination of laparoscopy and vaginal access (vaginally assisted hysterectomy). Medical and surgical errors can, and do, occur if the surgeon is…