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Many jails and prisons here in Oregon and around the country are not equipped to perform all of the medical tests that may need to be conducted on their inmates. For example, in Nov. 2013, a service called MobilexUSA, Inc. provided at least one out-of-state penal...
Medical professionals and health safety advocates will agree: misdiagnoses and delayed diagnoses happen all too often. One aspect of the problem, though, is that diagnostic errors are often cognitive errors on the part of doctors -- the mistakes happen in the doctors'...
When Oregon residents go to an emergency room, clinic or their family physician, they expect that their medical complaints will be taken seriously. When a doctor dismisses a patient's complaints without thoroughly examining the patient and the patient's history, a...
Many medical conditions share common symptoms. This can make it difficult for a physician to properly diagnose an Oregon patient. Patients expect their doctor to take whatever time is needed in order to make the correct diagnosis since a failure to diagnose a...
Victims of medical malpractice, negligence and substandard health care are in a seemingly helpless and vulnerable place. They are ruined physically, as the medical mistake causes them pain. They are mentally and emotionally drained, as the whole incident causes them...
You would think that after the thousands upon thousands of incidents that show medical professionals failing to do their job, things would at least start to change. You would think silly mistakes -- ones that seem to involve a lack of attention to detail -- would be...
In 2013, a woman sued a hospital that she went to numerous times from 2008 to 2011. At this hospital, the woman underwent numerous exams to search for cervical cancer. None of these exams came back with any readings that would indicate any malignancy. But in fact, the...
In some respects, we take diagnosing a medical condition for granted. We just expect that the doctor will always get it right, because he or she has to, right? They have all the training and experience, and they understand the human body better than most people on...
People are going to make mistakes. It's just in our nature. No matter how much training we receive or expertise that we may have, we will always make mistakes -- both big and small -- that remind us of just how fallible we really are. In certain fields, this may not...
Misdiagnoses happen all the time, and as scary as that thought is, it should also motivate you to think about the care you get from your doctor. Are you happy with him or her? Do you feel he or she provides the type of care that you are looking for in a doctor? These...