March 17th, 2010
Despite the seemingly endless number of high-tech diagnostic tests available to modern medical professionals, diagnosing a patient’s condition is still far from a fool-proof process. While doctors usually get it right, sometimes patients are told they suffer from one disease or condition when their symptoms actually have an altogether different cause. In the best case scenario, this is a temporary inconvenience for the patient, causing them to receive the unnecessary treatment, but not leading to any long term suffering. In other cases, though, a misdiagnosis can be much more serious. If a physician’s negligence is responsible for a serious misdiagnosis, the patient may consider legal action as a legitimate way to receive compensation for monetary loss and suffering.
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March 16th, 2010
North Carolina’s Medicaid office has created a list of drugs it wants physicians to prescribe as a way to discourage more expensive or less effective medications while saving tens of millions of dollars annually.
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March 15th, 2010
We’re all aware of the fact you may have a medical negligence claim if you have suffered injury or allergy relating to a medical procedure, but were you aware that there are also cases where pharmaceutical errors have lead to a clinical negligence claim?
As with a medical error, an error when prescribing medication can lead to health defects such as illness, injury and in severe cases, death.
Pharmaceutical errors are when there is mistake in the medication suggested to you by a pharmacist. The error may be the wrong type of medication being given or could be an error in the prescribed dose, and both can have a detrimental effect on your health.Errors also occur where the pharmacist gives a different medicine or dosage to what has earlier been prescribed by the patients GP or other consultant.
However, the most common situation where pharmaceutical errors occur is when medicines are prescribed without a doctor’s prescription, such as cold and flu remedies, allergy ointments or drops. One such case was when a Chester women was experiencing some dryness and itching in the eyes. She asked the advice of the pharmacist who prescribed some eye drops, however the packaging of the eye drops was identical to the packaging of some ear drops and they (against the advice of manufacturers) were kept side by side., and so the pharmacist gave the wrong one. Needless to say when the woman in question used the drops her eyes became itchy and swollen with a stinging sensation.
When a medicine is first given to you, you might not be aware that it is wrong, and so trusting the professional’s judgement, may take the wrong medicine or wrong dose of a medicine. Fortunately, someone else’s mistake does not always result in you illness, but if you have suffered injury relating to a pharmaceutical error then you may be able to claim for medical negligence.
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March 14th, 2010
House and Senate negotiators are inching toward a compromise budget-balancing plan, promising to have a deal on lawmakers’ desks for today’s overtime finale to the 2010 General Assembly.
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March 13th, 2010
When patients are set to undergo a serious surgical procedure, they will often be placed under general anesthesia. This process of temporarily putting a person into a state of paralysis and unconsciousness comes with a large number of serious risks. In fact, in many procedures, the dangers posed by the anesthetics and the process in which they are used can be much more threatening to the person’s wellbeing than the surgery itself. When a patient’s procedure requires general anesthesia, one key concern is assuring that the person’s body will continue to receive the oxygen it needs to survive.
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March 12th, 2010
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March 11th, 2010
When we are patients for whatever our problem might be we basically put our entire life in the hands of the doctor, and in special cases we have no other choice but to trust them and just hope it will turn out just fine. Here we will consider a few tips that hopefully can be of some help.
1. At the minute you feel there might be a medical problem, inform your doctor and see if there is any way to make is better. Sometimes the problem can be solved, depending on the error.
2. Sometimes you are not personally affected by the problem, but if you noticed something abnormal then try to speak up for the other person. You most definitely do not want to put anyone at risk.
3. You must also inform the agencies from your state. They will take action with the problem whether is penalties, fines or payments of some kind.
4. Do not forget to talk things through. After you have contacted all the parties and nothing seems to be taken shape then you are encouraged to take the case to court. You can also decide to sue to obtain solutions to the damages, if you see that the injury cannot be fixed. But usually the best option is to bring the case to court.
5. A good choice is to go for a Medical Malpractice Attorney. They will help protect you or anyone close to you who is victim of medical malpractice.
What the Medical Malpractice attorney will first evaluate the case and see if there is really a case of Medical Malpractice or not. So, it is very important that as soon as you feel like you have been done wrong and have been neglected to speak out fast. Take action.
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March 10th, 2010
The U.S. Justice Department says Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act.
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March 9th, 2010
More and more people are relying on emergency rooms (ER) as their primary level of treatment than ever in the past. ERs around the country are struggling to keep up with the influx of traffic. And, as is almost always the case when people struggle to keep up, they’re making mistakes. Medical mistakes are always dangerous, but they’re especially so when immediate medical care is required and time is of the essence.
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March 8th, 2010
A bipartisan legislative panel agreed Friday that Gov. Brian Schweitzer should cut less from the state budget than he is currently considering if Congress sends more money to the state.
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