A new survey sheds light on which Pennsylvania hospitals are safest for patients — and which might be the most dangerous. Hospital practices are directly linked to the risk of a patient’s experiencing medical malpractice in the form of avoidable illness or injury. Next time you need to head to a hospital in Pennsylvania for imaging, lab work, or surgery, it’s worth taking the time to check how your local hospital stacks ...
It’s an unfortunate reality that medical treatment can sometimes be a deeply unpleasant experience. Sometimes the medical care you receive doesn’t meet the standard of care doctors are expected to provide. When you know how to recognize the signs of improper medical treatment, you’re able to recognize when it’s time to call a medical malpractice lawyer.
Health care workers who fail to provide you with the appropriat...
Medical mistakes often result in costly, life-altering complications. Excessive medical bills, attendant care costs, and lost wages are all common outcomes of medical malpractice. When you need to recover compensation for medical negligence, one of your first questions likely concerns how much money you can recover through medical malpractice damages.
You need to sit down with an experienced medical malpractice lawyer if yo...
Medical science is nothing short of a genuine marvel. Centuries of improvements allow today’s doctors to save and prolong lives in ways that couldn’t even be dreamed of mere decades ago. Medical science also offers ways to improve the quality of people’s lives through the use of plastic surgery, which is an equally amazing technology when it works as designed.
Be that as it may, unfortunately plastic surgeries sometim...
Every parent fondly remembers the birth of their child. The first moments after your child is born can be among the most wonderful memories of your life. For many pregnancies, a C-section is required to facilitate the birth, but even the necessity of being stitched up can’t ruin that moment. What can ruin it, however, is when the doctor performs a bad C-section and either you or your child is injured. In that nightmare scena...