If you were to ask the average person, they would likely tell you that most medication errors are mistakes made by individuals who need medical care. They would probably assume that medical mistakes don't happen in hospitals and other professional medical...
Unfortunately, the practice of medicine is not an exact science. Each person's symptoms are unique, and the onset of conditions can be very different for each individual even when they share the same disorder. Doctors learn different protocols to follow to aid in...
When you fall, suddenly get sick or have some other kind of emergency medical situation, you rely on your hospital for care. Like most, however, you may not realize that you're at risk of contracting a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) by visiting a medical center or...
Having a baby is nearly always a joyful experience for Homerville parents. A new baby makes parents and other family members feel happy and more connected to one another. Most births occur smoothly, leaving the mother and infant in good physical condition....
Maybe it starts with fatigue, but soon you also have a body ache or experience shortness of breath. You try plugging in your symptoms into a search engine, only to get hit with numerous terrifying-sounding conditions. You have to go to a doctor in order to figure out...
Medical malpractice claims filed in Georgia and elsewhere often involve surgical errors. In fact, the medical liability insurer Coverys analyzed all the closed malpractice claims it dealt with between 2014 and 2018 and found that one-fourth of the claims had something...
Technological advancements in health care are supposed to help patients in Georgia and across the U.S. While some innovations have certainly done that in many cases, other supposed improvements have not yielded the expected results. The keeping of medical records is...
Georgia residents should know that breast cancer does arise in men, however rare it might be, since men have breast tissue and even the glands for producing milk and the ducts for carrying that milk to the nipple. There are three common types of breast cancer in men:...
Investigators at Johns Hopkins University led a study of the rate of diagnostic errors for 15 different medical conditions. Taking its data from 28 previous studies and analyzing a total of 91,755 patients, investigators found that 9.6% of patients with these...
Many Georgia patients are nervous before undergoing surgery, but few people worry about doctors leaving foreign objects in their bodies after the procedure. Unfortunately, this nightmare scenario happens to thousands of Americans each year. According to various...
