Posted on June 20th, 2018 by Elizabeth
Doctors vow to provide patients with the best possible care. Any deviation from the accepted medical standard of care is considered medical negligence or medical malpractice. In an emergency room in California, one doctor failed miserably at her job of caring for others. And now one patient is considering legal action against the hospital that […]
Posted on June 8th, 2018 by Elizabeth
When a doctor, nurse, or other healthcare professional fails to deliver the care they vowed to provide and the result is patient injury or death, that is classified as medical malpractice. In some situations, it’s easy to question whether what you experienced qualifies as malpractice. It’s true that medical negligence can sometimes be difficult to […]
Posted on June 6th, 2018 by Elizabeth
Brain injuries can occur when you hit your head in a car accident, a football game, a fall. You don’t even have to hit your head to suffer a brain injury – a jolt to the head that shakes the brain is enough to cause a traumatic brain injury (TBI). In the best-case scenarios, the […]
Posted on June 4th, 2018 by Elizabeth
Cerebral palsy is a devastating and irreversible birth injury that affects the brain, but the name for the disease itself is an umbrella term. There are many types of CP that vary in severity and symptoms and affect children in different ways, some more significantly than others. In all cases of cerebral palsy though, the […]
Posted on May 30th, 2018 by Elizabeth
If a doctor misdiagnoses your traumatic brain injury, he or she could be considered negligent, and you may have a case for a medical malpractice lawsuit. It’s a physician’s responsibility to meet the legal and acceptable standard of care. Even if a patient doesn’t present with obvious symptoms of a brain injury, the physician should […]
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