It doesn't matter who is treating you or which facility you visit, when it comes to medical advice and treatment you expect nothing but the best.Medical professionals are human, which means that mistakes can happen from time to time. Unfortunately, when a mistake...
Medical Malpractice
Man’s brain injury leads to complete paralysis
If you seek medical care in Maryland, you expect doctors to diagnose you quickly and correctly. In this case from across the border, a West Virginian couple has claimed that a pair of medical providers did not correctly diagnose a man who had suffered a traumatic head...
Medical malpractice suit could set example for Maryland
Seven women started a medical negligence lawsuit that they aimed at Freeport Health Network and a doctor who worked at the facility. In the lawsuit, they claimed that they were misdiagnosed, being told that they had multiple sclerosis when they actually did not have...
Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit settled
Anybody who visits a medical professional for guidance is hoping to get the best treatment available. Unfortunately, this is not always how things work out, with some people ending up in a worse position.Patients who unnecessarily received heart stents have reached a...
Medical malpractice suit settled, but surgical error may go on
When someone suffers a serious injury or death as a result of a medical error, a patient or the patient's family may decide to file a civil lawsuit. One of the goals of most medical malpractice lawsuits is to see that the error doesn't happen again to another patient....
Simple scanning technique prevents surgical sponge errors
Approximately one in 6,000 surgical procedures carried out in the U.S. involves the type of medical malpractice in which a surgical sponge is left inside the patient after the procedure is over. This can lead to serious and even life-threatening consequences, often...
Malpractice lawsuit follows girl’s death during oral surgery
A Maryland teenager's death as a result of "routine" oral surgery has led her family to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against the surgeons.The 17-year-old girl underwent surgery to have her wisdom teeth pulled, a procedure her parents weren't worried about when...
Maryland man wins malpractice lawsuit after unsuccessful surgery
A surgeon who insisted he had removed a patient's tumor, despite tests and reports to the contrary, was sued for medical malpractice by a Maryland man who lost his hearing as a result of the unsuccessful surgery.The man had a benign tumor in a very hard-to-reach area...
Are doctors’ white lies for our own good?
Is anyone immune from telling a lie every now and then? According to a recently published study, even doctors lie to patients; 11 percent said they've told a patient or a child's guardian something that wasn't true in the past year, and about 20 percent said they...
Maryland heart surgeon accused of unnecessary stent surgery
You don't have to be a doctor to be familiar with one of the main tenets of the Hippocratic Oath: Do no harm. That's one of the central issues of new medical malpractice lawsuits lodged against a handful of Baltimore County surgeons accused of performing unnecessary...
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