Resources for Medical Malpractice Medication Error

Ninety percent. According to research, that’s the percentage of adults who struggle with proficient health literacy. Health literacy plays a crucial role in helping patients understand their medical conditions and treatments, yet many find it difficult to follow medical instructions accurately. This lack of understanding can lead to medication errors, unnecessary hospitalizations, and preventable health […]
Doctor Errors

Understanding Common Forms of Medical Malpractice In medical treatment, complications and adverse outcomes are always possible. However, when healthcare professionals fail to abide by the applicable standard of care, resulting in injury, illness, or death, it may constitute medical malpractice. Such incidents can occur at nearly any stage of treatment, from initial consultations to complex […]
Medical Malpractice

Cases are difficult, expensive, and take a long time. There are quite a few procedural obstacles that medical malpractice victims need to overcome to prove their case. A good medical malpractice attorney has the experience and expertise to navigate them and help you move forward. How to find a good medical malpractice lawyer. Most people start […]
Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice is one of the most complex areas of law – and hospital negligence can be one of the hardest forms of medical malpractice to determine. It all comes down to the relationship between the hospital and the medical professional. Hospitals are responsible for their employees If a medical professional is the employee of […]
Hospital Negligence

A study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that teaching hospitals experience an exponential rise in medication errors every July like clockwork – which just happens to coincide with the arrival of new residents and the departure of many of the seasoned staff members. You may want to ask “is July a […]
Medication Errors + Patient Safety

Doctor errors happen. That is a fact. Medicine isn’t the only occupation in which errors occur. There are mechanic errors, fast food errors, printing errors, etc… Every sort of work is going to have errors. Doctor errors, however, can have pretty significant, even life-threatening, consequences. We go to a doctor and expect that he or […]
Doctor Errors

Understanding medical malpractice and why it happens can be difficult. This post and infographic will hopefully help. When we go to a doctor or hospital, we put our faith in the ability of our doctors to provide us with a certain level of skilled health care. We do so because one of the most fundamental […]
Medical Malpractice

Avoiding doctor errors is something everyone wants to do.  After all, a visit to the doctor or a hospital is about feeling better, not worse.  Most of the time patient safety is a high priority for healthcare professionals. Unfortunately, there are times that mistakes are made and patients find themselves worse off than when they […]
Doctor Errors + Medical Error + Patient Safety

A bad outcome to a medical procedure is the last thing anyone plans on when going to the doctor.  After all, you go to the doctor to be healed. It is possible, however, that despite a doctor’s best efforts you won’t get better. If a doctor does the best job he or she can do […]
Doctor Errors

Victims of Medical Malpractice Often Need Help Overcoming Guilt When a client comes to talk to us about whether they should file a medical malpractice case or not, one of the greatest hurdles that we have to overcome right away is guilt. Surprisingly, when we talk to people about the fact that doctors were responsible […]
Medical Malpractice

A report published by the Archives of Internal Medicine in April of this year found that nurses who were interrupted while administering drugs have an increased risk of making medication errors. The report’s study, which was completed in two of major teaching hospitals by the University of Sydney, Australia, looked for both procedural and clinical […]

Prescription drugs are meant to help and heal people, not harm and hurt them. When reactions to pharmaceutical drugs occur, whether from overdose or underdose, allergies, drug interactions, side effects or incorrect prescriptions, patients experience medication errors. According to recent study findings, millions of people, mainly elderly and highly medicated patients, seek treatment for adverse […]

Vulnerable ICU patients are often receiving the wrong medicine or not the right amount. In fact, according to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, 80 percent of the serious medical errors reported in ICUs are medication errors – making medication errors in critical care units frequent and dangerous. Medication errors cause ICU patients to be […]

When a person visits a doctor or emergency room, one of the first questions health care providers ask the patient is if he or she is taking any medications. This is important information for medical professionals, as this could potentially rule out other medications that can be prescribed to help treat an injury or illness. […]

Having a new baby can be stressful for expectant parents, with nine months of preparation and worry. Perhaps even more stressful is the actual birth of the new child – not only for the parents, but also for the doctors, nurses and hospital staff delivering the baby. Medical staff in most hospitals today are overworked. […]

Many people are aware of the dangers that opioid painkillers such as oxycodone pose to those who use them. People can easily become addicted to them or overdose on them, so the government regulates these medications heavily. For a long time, medical professionals did not view Vicodin, a mixture of acetaminophen and hydrocodone, to be […]

Last week, the Chicago Tribune reported that several doctors and at least two hospital officials were arrested for being involved in an alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital. After the arrests were made, authorities reported that they had been investigating the hospital for three years. Authorities suspected that hospital officials and doctors were performing […]
Medication Errors

If you have been reading some of the recent posts on our Chicago medical malpractice law blog, you may have come to the conclusion that there are too many things that can go wrong when patients are receiving medical treatment in hospitals. Inadequate hospital policies may lead to serious and fatal incidents of hospital negligence, […]
Hospital Negligence

When Chicago nursing home patients are prescribed Coumadin or warfarin, their nurses and other caretakers must be especially careful and attentive when administering the drug. Coumadin helps to prevent strokes and other complications from blood clotting problems. However, this drug can also be very harmful when it is not administered correctly. Not all patients respond […]
Nursing Home Neglect

Nursing homes are supposed to be safe places for elderly Chicago residents and other vulnerable patients. In order to provide patients with a safe facility, though, nursing homes must make sure they are properly staffed. Nursing home residents need to be carefully monitored, they often need to be bathed and groomed by someone else, and […]
Nursing Home Neglect