Patients go to medical professionals for their health care concerns, expecting to receive the treatment they need, including acquiring appropriate drug prescriptions. Accordingly, as part of the medical standard of care, doctors should prescribe not only the right...
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Artificial intelligence can reduce injury risk to patients
Many South Carolina patients feel nervous before undergoing a medical procedure. It’s not uncommon for one to worry about dealing with an unplanned injury when something goes wrong during a procedure or during recovery. Fortunately, medical procedures do usually go as...
How can nurses avoid medication errors?
If you or one of your immediate family members has spent time in a hospital under the care of a licensed medical team, administration of medication may have been part of the protocol. Whether you, your child or your parent underwent surgery or were being treated for...
Could you identify top causes of medical injury?
When visiting a doctor, you believe the doctor has your best interest in mind. A doctor's top priority is ensuring you get the care you need to recover. However, there are situations when you may believe that the doctor is not doing everything possible to help you...
GranuFlo dangers are documented, but product is still used
People who rely on dialysis to survive are taking a risk each time they hook up to the machine. This is because the machine actually pulls blood from the body, filters it and returns it to the body. At each step during this process, there are risks.The medications...
NuvaRing at the heart of severe brain damage case
Birth control is something that many women refuse to live without simply because they aren't ready to have a child. When a woman goes to the doctor to get birth control, she is often presented with various options. These options all contain good points and warnings...
Medication errors can lead to compensation claims
Our previous blog post discussed the case of the woman who was burned from the inside out due to a medication that she was prescribed. This woman now has to deal with severe disfigurement and pain for her entire life. This is a tragedy that might have been avoided if...
Dosing error leads to a woman suffering severe burns
Imagine taking medications to make you feel better only to find out after a few days that the medication is actually burning you from the inside out. This is exactly what a young woman from South Carolina's southern neighbor faced. The woman found out that she has a...
Know what you can do if you are the victim of a medication error
Medications are great tools that doctors have at their disposal to try to help patients to heal and recover from medical issues. The problem with these medications is that they can be dangerous if there are ever any errors made with them.We understand that you have...
Can I take action if I’m harmed by a nurse?
When you go to the doctor's office or to a hospital, your primary contact is likely the nursing staff. You might have already thought about how serious it would be if your doctor was negligent or caused you harm, but most people haven't thought about how serious it is...