Patients could slip, fall, and injure themselves during their stay in a hospital. Falls are usually caused due to hazards in the walkways, improper maintenance of hospital surroundings, and wet floors that do no warn passers-by about dangers of slipping, among others. Sometimes falls can be a result of medical negligence, which may involve a lawsuit being filed by the injured person.
Cataracts normally occur due to aging. A cataract surgery is performed to correct this condition, where the cataract is separated from the lens capsule and replaced with an intraocular lens implant or IOL. In cases where an IOL cannot be used, spectacles, or eye glasses are worn by the patient.
Most New York parents are told about shaken baby syndrome when they begin to have children. Shaken baby syndrome occurs when a parent or caregiver essentially shakes the baby’s brain, causing an injury that could lead to death or serious injuries.
What is Spinal Anesthesia?
Spinal cord injuries often happen due to a fall, accident, or due to medical negligence. Whatever the reason, spinal cord injury has the potential to leave victims in a miserable condition that forces them to bear medical expenses for the rest of their life. Based on this, it is very important for neurosurgeons to be highly cautious while performing the surgery and also provide best post-operative care to avoid spinal cord injuries.
Diabetes is a serious medical condition
Characteristics of a Heart Attack
When New York residents go to their doctors with concerns about the possibility of having breast cancer, being told that there is a clean bill of health is a relief. There are, however, times when the doctor makes a mistake and there is a failure to diagnose the disease. With cancer so prominent a problem, significant attention is dedicated to its treatment and trying to find a cure. Given the risks inherent with the disease, a failure to diagnose and delayed treatment might place the patient in a worsened condition.
New York patients may want to pay heed to a New Jersey Supreme Court case involving a physician who had no medical malpractice insurance. On Sept. 29, a 5-2 split decision decreed that practitioners lacking malpractice insurance to any degree are not to be disciplined by the courts, but by the state’s medical board instead. However, if the medical facility employing the insured physician failed to conduct an appropriate amount of due diligence before making the hire, it may be held liable.
New York Police Department officials think that a physician of questionable caliber fled to England after the death of a patient on May 30. A 34-year-old BET employee from Maryland traveled to Queens for silicone injections to her backside, but a homicide occurred as the cause of death was systemic silicone emboli because of the butt injections.
