| The Privacy of Your Medical Records |
| The Privacy of Your Medical RecordsMore... |
| Surgical Malpractice |
| No matter how "routine" a procedure, surgery is always risky. However, not every bad result from surgery is caused by malpractice. Unintended and non-negligent complications arise every day, such as death from an undetected allergic reaction or infection that is guarded against, diagnosed, and treated in a timely and proper fashion but that nevertheless has a devastating effect on the patient's recovery.More... |
| Liability of Ambulance Attendants and Emergency Medical Technicians |
| Many times the first contact that a sick or injured individual has with a hospital is when an ambulance arrives at his home, the attendant and the emergency medical technician work over him, and he is loaded into the ambulance for the trip to the hospital. Now assume that the patient is in even worse shape when he gets to the hospital, and the reason for the decline in his condition appears to be the conduct of the emergency health care provider. Does the patient have a cause of action for medical malpractice against the health care providers or their employers, and if so, do the health care providers have any defenses against the action?More... |
| Responsible Parties in Medical Malpractice Cases Other Than Physicians - An Overview |
| When we think about filing a medical malpractice claim, our first thought is to name the physician in charge of treatment as the defendant in the action. However, medical malpractice is not limited to the conduct of medical doctors. Any providers of healthcare, such as nurses, anesthesiologists, healthcare facilities, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, may have been negligent, leading to injury of a patient.More... |
| Malpractice Liability of Sports Medical Care Providers |
| Children and young adults are playing a large variety of sports in ever-increasing numbers. As the number of participants increases, so does the occurrence of sports-related injuries and deaths resulting in more medical malpractice actions against team physicians and sports trainers.More... |
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