Sepsis contributes to roughly one in three hospital deaths in the United States, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. [JAMA] Despite its prevalence and severity, healthcare providers often fail to recognize sepsis in its early stages, thereby allowing it to progress and wreak havoc on a person’s body. Sepsis occurs when the body’s […]
Hospital Negligence + Wrongful Death
A delayed diagnosis can be just as dangerous as a wrong one. When a serious medical condition is not identified within a reasonable period of time, patients may lose access to treatments that could have slowed progression, reduced complications, or improved recovery. Often, patients are seriously harmed not by the illness itself, but by the […]
Failure to Diagnose + Medical Malpractice
When doctors misdiagnose a patient’s symptoms, the patient’s condition and symptoms are usually prolonged. In worst case scenarios, a wrongful death can result from a misdiagnosis, as was the case with a 12-year-old boy whose sepsis symptoms went undiagnosed by his family physician and an emergency room staff earlier this year. The boy cut his […]
Misdiagnosis
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