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Medical malpractice can have long-lasting effects on the lives of patients and their families. If you reside in Florida, it is crucial to understand the laws and regulations regarding medical malpractice claims. What is medical malpractice? Healthcare providers commit...

Few medical emergencies have the potential to be more devastating than a stroke. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, stroke is the common name for a blockage of blood flow to the brain. Because a stroke deprives the brain of vital nutrients and...

If you are planning to welcome a new baby into your family, you expect your doctors to keep you and your unborn child healthy. Importantly, they should closely monitor you for signs of preeclampsia or eclampsia. According to the Mayo Clinic, preeclampsia is a...

Many aspects of medicine have become safer over the past decades. That is certainly true of anesthesia. Fifty or sixty years ago, patients had about a one-in-ten-thousand chance of death when doctors put them under. That number is closer to 1 in 200,000 these days....

Misdiagnosis is a serious problem in hospitals. It affects over 5% of all patients. Of course, not all diagnostic errors result in serious injuries or death — but 370,000 out of 7.4 million do. When major contributing factors to this issue are relatively easy to stop,...

Historically, there has existed a trend of doctors not taking women's medical concerns as seriously as men's. This is an issue that persists today, with many women experiencing gender bias in hospitals and waiting rooms as a result. The difference in medical treatment...

When you go into the hospital and have a child, you expect the utmost care for yourself and your child. Unfortunately, sometimes, mistakes occur during childbirth. Some of these mistakes can result in birth injuries. Watch for these signs. During or after delivery...

When a Florida doctor gives you an inaccurate medical diagnosis, it may cause more than just confusion. A medical misdiagnosis may result in you taking the wrong drugs or receiving the wrong treatment for your true condition. It may also result in your condition...

No one wants to go to the emergency room but occasionally it is necessary for you to find out what certain symptoms mean. Unfortunately, you may leave the ER with faulty and possibly harmful information due to a misdiagnosis. How does this kind of error occur?...

When your doctor schedules you for a surgical procedure, you want to feel you can trust the operating room team implicitly. However, errors do occur and among them are alarming “never events” along with other common surgical mistakes. Errors with anesthesia The...