"Empathy" is defined by Merriam-Webster, in part, as "the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, ... the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another..." Why would a plaintiff's personal injury and medical malpractice attorney write about empathy? Well, the answer is easy for so many reasons. In this blog, part 1, I will [...]
The main role of emergency medicine specialists is to decide whether to admit a patient to the hospital for treatment, observation or further investigation. However, a critical function of the ER doctor is to interpret early test results to decide whether the patient's condition is life-threatening or not. In this regard, ER physicians must be able to [...]
What causes doctors to misdiagnosis a medical condition? After all, they are trained to diagnose and treat all kinds of medical conditions and we expect them to keep us safe and to accurately diagnose us so that we can prevent avoidable harm. They are taught in medical school to use the differential diagnosis method to [...]
For patients injured by medical negligence, there is often a burning sense of betrayal by the doctor with whom they entrusted their health and well-being. This sense of betrayal is stoked when a physician who has caused harm skulks off into the shadows without acknowledging that mistakes were made or that unnecessary harm was caused. Betrayal and suspicion lead many [...]
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Strokes or cardiovascular accidents (CVAs) often give rise to medical negligence cases. There are a number of factors behind this basic fact: (1) Prophylactic measures are available to prevent many CVAs. For instance, patients with atrial fibrillation may benefit from preventative anticoagulation, depending upon their age, blood pressure, past medical history and related factors. (2) Time is of [...]
Emergency medicine is a subspecialty of medicine that deals with the urgent evaluation and disposition of all types of medical emergencies. Though ER doctors face the whole breadth of medical scenarios, they are trained to make quick decisions and get specialists involved when warning signs warrant. I had the pleasure of speaking with a brilliant Harvard-educated [...]
Many medical errors would be avoided with some simple changes in habit by healthcare workers, according to a 2013 study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored an initiative to add recommendations for improving healthcare to their 2001 publication "Making Health Care Safer." These new recommendations are meant to prevent surgical [...]
Hospital negligence refers to medical malpractice claims that arise out of substandard medical care provided by hospital employees, including nurses and residents. Residents, or physicians-in-training, play a key role on care of hospitalized patients. However, overworked, fatigued and inexperienced residents can be dangerous to a hospitalized patient's health. Residents are doctors-in-training who have graduated medical school but need [...]
Squamous cell skin cancer is generally considered to be the lesser evil when compared to malignant melanoma. However, a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association -Dermatology (JAMA - Derm) points out that a delay in diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma can be fatal for some patients. According to the Skin Cancer [...]