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Georgia patients' rights advocates, including medical malpractice attorneys, have expressed concern over some instances in which Georgia regulators have allowed doctors who have been disciplined by the state medical board to have their licenses and privileges...
Your doctor (or another medical professional) made a mistake. You're not sure yet what the long-term consequences will be to your health and haven't decided whether or not to take legal action. However, to add insult to injury — literally — no one has fully explained...
If you think that your family will never be touched by the horrors of medical malpractice, we urge you to think again and to be cautious. Most victims of medical malpractice, especially those suffering serious or catastrophic injuries, thought the same thing when they...
Medical malpractice can take many forms from a medication error to delayed diagnosis. While it may seem impossible to comprehend, surgical errors are a common type of malpractice. Examples of surgical mistakes causing severe injuries include: Surgery performed on the...
One Atlanta doctor who bills herself as "Atlanta's most experienced cosmetic surgeon" has come under recent media scrutiny. She has four malpractice lawsuits pending against her. She's settled five others. The doctor is also somewhat of a YouTube celebrity. She's...
For a lot of people, going under the surgeon's knife isn't nearly as intimidating as going under anesthesia. However, anesthesia has changed a lot in the last few decades and is critical to many surgical procedures. For one thing, it's far safer than it used to be....
Patients aren't expected to know when they're in medical danger. That's really the physician's job to keep track of what is happening and spot things like an infection that's spinning out of control. Just because the patient didn't complain and draw the physician's...
A total of three different staff members, two nurses and a healthcare aide, have been charged with crimes related to an elderly veteran's death. Their actions, or more accurately lack of action, is also the focus of a wrongful death suit against the care center for...
Most people make it through surgery without negative repercussions. However, when things go wrong in surgery, there can be serious and even fatal consequences. We put ourselves in a surgeon's hands, literally, so we may feel like we have no impact on the outcome....
Many patients feel like their doctors rush them when they are trying to speak to them. This is actually very true. On average, doctors cut patients off after only 17 seconds of speaking. This is an atrocity that must be corrected because the doctors need all the...