Category: Medical Malpractice

When Maryland patients leave a hospital after surgery or other medical treatment, they want to know whether they are healthy and whether they will need to return for treatment. Unfortunately, two recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that many patients now leave hospitals with...

Maryland residents are quite familiar with medical errors, such as wrong-site surgery, birth injury and misdiagnosis. These medical errors can cause serious harm to a patient, or even cause death in some cases. Medical errors claim 98,000 lives annually. Last year, a new study showed that the total number...

Most Maryland residents will go to a doctor whenever they have health-related problems that seem serious enough to warrant medical attention. Along with other health-care providers such as nurses, a physician will assess a patient's condition and determine the necessary treatment. Unfortunately, not every patient who undergoes medical treatment manages to walk...

Patients put much trust in the opinions and procedures that medical staff perform. Furthermore, young or new doctors and surgeons rely on the supervision to comment on and perfect their medical knowledge and procedures. When someone fails to correct or comment on medical treatment, their performance could lead to harm or tragedy.

Many Americans pay significantly for surgeries to improve and even save their lives. However, not all operations are over when the patient leaves the operating room. Surgical tools are all too often left in the body and they can endanger a patient's life. According to staggering data from 2005...

Protecting the patient should be a top priority for hospitals, doctors and other health care professionals. Residents in Laurel, Maryland, may agree with this fact also. However, based on statistics, on average, one medication error occurs every day. Some of these mistakes are associated with prescription errors, wrong dosage or wrong medication....

Many Laurel, Maryland residents may assume that surgeries are always performed to save someone's life and prevent further complications of a disease or illness. Surgical procedures have no room for error. The same goes for any diagnosis, treatment or medication given to a patient. On the other hand, a...

Differentiating what is needed and what is not often seems easy to do, especially if a person is already suffering from illness or injury. In Maryland, people trust doctors to take care of their health. Some people are willing to undergo certain procedures to improve their well-being, so long as the doctor...

Many Laurel, Maryland, readers may be interested to know about a recent study with a surprising finding. This study found that most medical malpractice complaints allege diagnostic errors. According to this study, for the past 25 years, most medical malpractice cases in the United States, including in Maryland, occurred due to misdiagnosis.

Doctors go to school for many years, and are licensed by a medical board to try to ensure that all doctor's practice up to a certain standard. Sometimes, however, doctors do not live up to that standard and end up with medical malpractice charges against themselves. A...