In 1950, a Supreme court case ruled that active-duty military members could not sue and seek damages from the government, particularly for medical malpractice. Recently, a defense spending bill, called the National Defense Authorization Act, had a small provision inserted into it that will overturn this precedence. For military members who may be victims of [...]
If you need to go to the doctor because something is wrong, you assume (or at a minimum hope) that they will do everything in their power to help you and will begin by collecting all of the facts about you, your medical history, and your symptoms. Since doctors aren’t perfect, as any Texas medical [...]
It's a safe assumption that when you walk out of a hospital, you’ll be in better health than when you walked in — or at a minimum, have a detailed plan from your doctor of how to get better. Sometimes, due to negligence on the part of the doctor, hospital, or hospital staff, patients become [...]
Since we were infants and our parents looked after us, if we felt ill, we’d go to the doctor. As such, to ensure proper care down the line, everything we’ve been treated for, from sicknesses and allergies to inoculations and immunizations, have been documented in our medical records, so that whenever we go again, our [...]
When most people think about Texas medical malpractice, they consider it to be an error on the part of the physician, surgeon, or nursing team. However, there is a new form of medical malpractice on the rise that negatively affects patients and catches the eyes of medical malpractice lawyers: malpractice related to electronic health records [...]
Welcoming a new life into this world is often one of the greatest moments of any parent’s life; a miracle of human existence joining the population to the joy and expectation of family members, hinging hopes on their successes in the future. The last thing anyone in the hospital room wants is for something to [...]
In almost every incident of hospitalization, either for treatment or surgery, the patient will walk out the door better than when they were admitted. Doctors, nurses, and staff work to ensure your health and to remedy any ailment from which you currently suffer. In nearly every instance, patients recover from surgery or treatment without any [...]
We all do our best to stay in good health: we eat right, we exercise, and we go for regular checkups to ensure that nothing has gone awry. Sometimes, we will need to have extra care given to us, either as a result of our own actions, or for events and circumstances out of our [...]
When we are told we need surgery to correct an injury or ailment, we believe that our doctors and surgeons will do the utmost to ensure our wellbeing before, during, and after a procedure. It’s true that nearly all doctors want to keep that promise to their patients; the downside and harsh reality is that [...]
Victims of medical malpractice suffer multiple times through the ordeal. First: when they go to the doctor for pain or discomfort. In today’s healthcare market, some avoid going to the doctor to limit how much they have to pay in bills or deal with bad news; to feel the need to go to the doctor [...]