Sick and injured individuals place immense trust in medical professionals to understand and treat their various ailments but instead of finding relief, many patients experience deteriorated health due to misdiagnosis. According to the AARP, here are four of the most...
Medical malpractice is a serious issue plaguing the health and wellness industries and impacting millions of individuals and their families each year. If you have experienced a wrong-site, wrong-procedure or wrong-patient surgery in Georgia, understanding your rights...
When most people discuss injuries sustained in healthcare settings, they think of botched surgeries, misdiagnoses and medication errors. However, in a hospital, there are daily instances of injuries caused by medical personnel working hands-on with patients. Patient...
Medical malpractice is a niche area of law that provides victims the opportunity to hold medical professionals accountable for wrongdoing that results in serious injuries. This is important for a number of reasons, including: Funds. First, it can lead to funds to help...
Doctors are more likely to misdiagnose a serious condition when it is one of the “big three” diseases. Georgia patients need to remain vigilant when undergoing testing to ensure that their physicians are looking for the right disease or condition, as a misdiagnosis...
If your physician doesn’t have an open mind, their bias can contribute toward cognitive errors. This may lead to a misdiagnosis of your condition. If you are misdiagnosed, your time and money spent on getting a correct diagnosis are not the only things that get...
Unfortunately, motor vehicle accidents that cause injuries are all too frequent. When a pregnant woman is injured, there are two patients with medical needs involved. Both baby and mom are interdependent; what happens to one affects the other. Errors may make an...
When you have a health problem, you likely head into your doctor’s office, hoping you can find the answer to what’s wrong. However, a doctor making a correct diagnosis doesn’t always happen. Some studies show doctors misdiagnosis about 12 million patients each year...
A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against a large, local hospital alleging malpractice in the facility’s care of her husband. In May, a gentleman fell off a ladder and fractured a vertebra in his back. He underwent surgery on May 4. After the surgery, doctors...
If you go through a standard medical procedure, you don't expect anything to go wrong. Your provider has performed many similar surgeries, and you are confident that it will be done right. Let's say the surgeon had a problem at all. However, the anesthesiologist did....
