Medical Malpractice

When you are taken ill, you trust that your healthcare provider will accurately diagnose your condition and prescribe and administer appropriate treatment so you can recover from your illness. After all, healthcare providers owe their patients a legal duty to prove...

It is common for health professionals in hospitals to work in under-resourced and stressful conditions. When medical care providers work long hours without rest or have more patients than they can handle, quality suffers. Not only that, the risk of mistakes increases....

It’s very frustrating to feel like your doctor won't listen to you. It's also a very common complaint. People often say that they think they're being ignored or that the doctor isn't taking them seriously.  It's important to know that this happens so that you can take...

Your long-time, trusted physician referred you to a specialist to diagnose or treat an issue that was beyond their knowledge and training. You trusted that your doctor would only refer you to someone with a good reputation. However, that specialist misdiagnosed the...

Medical malpractice claims have (often unfairly) gotten a lot of bad press. That’s caused a number of states -- including New York -- to enact strict rules that are designed to weed out frivolous claims.  One of those rules is the requirement for a “certificate of...

How often would you say that medical malpractice happens? When you go to the hospital or the doctor’s office, is it really something that you’re worried about?  If you’re like most people, this fear rarely crosses your mind. Even if you know that minor mistakes may...

Most people would prefer to continue living in their own homes as they age, even if they need medical observation and care that their family isn’t qualified to provide (or they have no family living nearby). That’s where home health nurses come in. They’re also called...

No one ever wants to find themselves in an emergency room (ER). Many people who go there are in such dire straits that they can’t wait to see their primary care physician. Countless patients feel that they have no other choice but to be seen in an ER. A recent study...

Cancer is an aggressive medical condition that, fortunately, many people can survive if individuals receive their diagnoses early. Many patients who don't survive cancer fail to do so for one of two reasons. They either do so because they wait too long to see a doctor...

When a loved one has reached the final days of their life, families often move them into a hospice care facility. These facilities provide palliative care to ease a person’s pain and make them as comfortable as possible when their condition – for example, cancer – has...