Category: Medical Malpractice
Since patient conditions differ in so many ways, surgical teams must make any number of on-the-spot decisions to help create the best possible outcome and save lives. Expecting a perfect outcome under these circumstances is not realistic. Still, across the U.S., a continuing high rate of preventable surgical errors occur each year. All too often,…Read More
Last January, the U.S. Senate issued a Minority Staff Report that contained key findings of known links between duodenoscopes (essential diagnostic devices) and increasing cases of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). However, our Charlotte medical malpractice lawyers point out that there may be plenty of blame to go around. If any number of related parties had spoken…Read More
Patients can practice any number of safety measures when doctors prescribe medication. When they head into the operating room, they must rely on medical staff to take control of their medication needs. Since medication needs can change in an instant immediately before, during, and after surgery (known as the perioperative process), this critical time has…Read More
As a general rule, patients go to ambulatory (also known as an outpatient) surgical centers for procedures related to relatively minor medical conditions. Upon completion, they return home for post-procedure care. They may need to see their medical providers again for observation or follow-up, but they typically do not expect to go to the hospital…Read More
No one would knowingly choose a surgical team whose members cannot distinguish between left and right — or even recognize the difference between one patient and another. Yet medical providers operate on the wrong body part or the wrong patient with alarming frequency. Wrong-site surgeries are known as surgical never-events because they should never happen….Read More