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What are the Most Common Types of Birth Injuries?

You have waited nine months for the birth of your baby. This day should be the happiest day of your life. Unfortunately, one medical error could turn this joyful occasion into heartache. In the blink of an eye, a tragic birth injury can jeopardize your baby’s entire future and turn your whole life upside down. [ Read More ]

Medical Malpractice and Mistakes: When Kidney Dialysis Errors Turn Disastrous

Across the United States, nearly 350,000 men and women are being treated for kidney failure. Of these people, more than 240,000 are dialysis patients. A dialysis treatment essentially acts as an artificial kidney, which cleans toxins, waste, and water from your bloodstream. This ultimately keeps your chemical levels balanced and your body functioning as normally [ Read More ]

Five of the Worst Medical Mistakes During Surgery

Medical mistakes affect an estimated 251,000 to 440,000 US patients each year. Surgical errors are a type of medical mistake that may cause irreversible harm, severe pain or death to patients. For instance, there was a recent story about a Florida woman who suffered severe pain for years due to a surgical error. She discovered [ Read More ]

Is Medical Malpractice Really a Leading Cause of Death?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists the most common causes of death every year in the United States. Its information is taken from death certificates that are completed by doctors, funeral directors, medical directors and coroners, but that information fails to take medical malpractice into account as a cause of death. The [ Read More ]

Can I File a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit for Wrongful Death?

Medical mistakes are a leading cause of preventable injuries and deaths in the United States. Estimates for fatal medical mistakes range between 251,000 and 440,000 per year, depending on the source. Some of the most common medical mistakes, such as medication errors and misdiagnosis, can very easily result in the death of a patient under [ Read More ]