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Every 9 Minutes, A Patient In A U.S. Hospital Dies From Misdiagnosis Or Delayed Diagnosis

November 19, 2018

The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine reports that “every nine minutes, someone in a U.S. hospital dies due to a medical diagnosis that was wrong or delayed.” According to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one in ten diagnoses are incorrect and most people will experience an[...]

West VA Medical Malpractice Death Caused By Bowel Perforation

February 1, 2012

When a 67-year-old man who was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed from the chest down went to a local West Virginia hospital to be treated for a urinary tract infection, the last thing he or his family would have anticipated would be that the man would never make it home again. Inst[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Claim For Young Boy’s Blindness

January 20, 2012

The parents of a 7-year-old boy filed a medical malpractice claim earlier this month against the boy’s pediatrician and others claiming that the boy suffered blindness due to the alleged failure to timely and properly diagnose the boy’s bacterial meningitis. The now 9-year-old boy wa[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Doctor’s Failure To Tell Patient About X-Ray Report

January 4, 2012

A New Jersey man in his mid-60s was scheduled to undergo a cardiac catheterization procedure. His cardiologist required him to have a chest x-ray before the procedure was done (a standard practice). The chest x-ray was taken; the x-ray report received by the cardiologist’s office indicated a[...]

Arkansas Medical Malpractice Physician Complaints And Disciplinary Actions

October 24, 2011

The Arkansas State Medical Board is responsible to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Arkansas with the goal that all citizens are provided with the highest quality health care. The Board is empowered to license and regulate the practice of medicine in Arkansas which includes [...]

Steve Job’s Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer

October 8, 2011

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple, Inc., died earlier this week after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The pancreas is an elongated, tapered gland that is located behind the stomach and is part of the digestive and endocrine system. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes that he[...]

Medical Malpractice Cases In The District Of Columbia (D.C.) – Official Report

August 8, 2011

During the 2010 calendar year, there were 7 medical malpractice cases tried before a jury to verdicts in the District of Columbia (D.C.), resulting in 5 verdicts in favor of the defendants and 2 verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs. One of the plaintiff’s verdicts was in the amount of $2,505,[...]

Lung Cancer – Statistics

July 10, 2011

Lung cancer is cancer that begins in the lungs (other cancers that spread to the lungs, called metastases, are not lung cancer). There are two major types of lung cancer: small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer that are diagnosed by the way the cells look under a microscope. The [...]

Colorectal Cancer Screening

July 9, 2011

While the rates of new cases of colorectal cancer and death from colorectal cancer in the United States have been decreasing, and more adults are being screened for colorectal cancer, one in three adults in the United States between 50 and 75 are still not being screened for colorectal cancer. Low [...]

Colorectal Cancer – Signs, Symptoms, And Diagnosis

July 6, 2011

Signs Of Possible Colon Cancer Some of the possible signs of colon cancer include a change in bowel habits; bright red, very dark, or narrower than usual stools; diarrhea; constipation; a feeling that the bowel does not completely empty; frequent gas pain; bloating; fullness; cramps; unexpected we[...]

Risk Factors For Breast Cancer

July 3, 2011

There are many known risk factors for breast cancer that cannot be easily modified such as increasing age, family history of breast cancer, high breast tissue density (the greater the density, the greater the risk – women with the greatest density have a 4 to 6-fold increased risk of breast c[...]

Breast Cancer Statistics And Mammograms

June 29, 2011

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women in the United States. In 2007, there were 202,964 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,598 women died from breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer in women in the United States for 2007 was highest for white women foll[...]

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