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A cold, unfamiliar room with silent, serious on-lookers. Desks scattered with file folders, exhibits, and documents. Strange words and phrases that you don’t understand fill your ears. You’re in a courtroom, as the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case. Will this be your future? Your doctor failed you, so you have to take them…

You did it. You bravely went under the knife. Now you’re hoping the risk will pay off, granting you better health than ever! But what if the opposite happens? Something went wrong during the surgical procedure, and now you’re worse off than you were before. Can you sue? Every surgery or cosmetic surgery, no matter how…

There’s one place you’ll probably visit at least once in your lifetime. The hospital! Whether it’s for an illness, a couple of stitches, or just to be born, we go to hospitals hoping that the professionals inside will take good care of us. Providing that “good care” is often the responsibility of more than…

It’s a road you never imagined you’d walk. Your doctor failed you. Their negligence cost you your health and livelihood. Now you’re gearing up to meet with an attorney. But what should you bring to your first consultation? What medical malpractice questions should you ask?  Since malpractice cases are complex, you need an experienced…

Hospitals are full of doctors, patients, machines, and medicine. Do you know what else they can be full of? Infections. Everyone goes to the hospital hoping to get better. No one goes hoping they’ll become host to some free-loading infection. Sometimes a negligent doctor’s error is to blame. If it happens to you, you…

For many, there’s a lot of anxiety surrounding healthcare. The fear of the unknown causes many people to avoid the doctor altogether. What if the doctor diagnoses me with a serious illness? Or what happens if a doctor incorrectly diagnoses me? Though an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, sometimes these…

While most pregnancies in the US result in healthy babies, there are unfortunately exceptions. Some women will face complications during pregnancy. Sometimes, shortly after conception. An ectopic pregnancy is a condition that takes place in the beginning of a pregnancy. That’s where a doctor’s prompt and adequate care comes in. Treating an ectopic pregnancy…

It’s a loaded question. To prove negligence, you’ll need medical records, perhaps testimonies, evidence of the negligence and your injury. But we’ll get to that soon. Let’s start at the beginning. You put your life and health in a doctor’s or hospital’s hands. And they let you down. You’re not heading down the road…

In the United States, medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death. Shocking, right? No one goes to the hospital thinking a doctor’s going to harm them. After all, doctors pledge to help, not harm. But everyone has to seek medical care at some point or another. So it’s good to be aware…

No one heads to a hospital expecting to be injured while there. On the contrary–you expect medical staff to heal and not harm you. But hospitals do sometimes harm patients. In fact, 250,000 negligent hospital deaths occur every year, according to a Johns Hopkins study. The good news? If a hospital makes a mistake…