According to Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Archives journals, potential dangerous medication errors are more common at the time of hospital admission than a patient realizes. A serious hospital mistake can lead to permanent injuries or…
A former police officer who recently lost his father in a nursing home told a U.S. Senate committee that in his opinion nursing homes have a license to commit murder. Nursing homes are in the business of making money and like all businesses that means…
Ron Franklin, a former announcer for ESPN, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against ESPN alleging that he could only be disissed for a “failure to perform” his job. The incident for which he was fired involved remarks he made to a sideline reporter in a…
The federal government entered a settlement agreement that requires it to pay $2.3 million in connection with a medical malpractice lawsuit that involved a child who was born with neurological damage at a military hospital medical center. Parents of the injured newborn baby sued the…
Only months after a young child was killed after given the wrong blood thinner dose, another small child was killed by doctors and nurses practicing sloppy medicine. The medical staff at a Children’s hospital mistakenly injected the wrong medicine into the wrong IV causing a…
A traumatic brain injury is most commonly suffered from serious impact accidents such as car accidents. In accidents where the victim is not wearing a seat belt or is ejected from the car, head injury is more common and severe. Whiplash and concussions often go…