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Imagine the surprise and anger you would feel if you went under the knife only to find out that the wrong body part was operated on. Not only would you need additional surgery, but now you may have irreparable injuries as a result of the surgical error. That's more or...
Surgical errors can quickly cause a patient to suffer unnecessary pain and even to have to go through additional surgeries that wouldn't have been necessary. Sometimes, these errors end up leaving a patient with a disability, and other times the wrong body part or...
Avoiding surgical errors is something everyone wants. No medical provider wants to make mistakes that injure a patient. No patient wants to deal with the aftermath of a serious mistake made during surgery. It's a good idea for both people to work together to find a...
Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in America. There are dozens of things that can go wrong. Here are just a few that you should look out for after you go through a surgery. If you're impacted by these events, it's important to speak up and look...
A wrong-site surgery can cause a number of health concerns for you. Imagine going into the hospital to have part of your left lung removed. When you wake up, you find out that the surgeon took part of your right lung instead. You'd be upset, and you'd have every right...
Performing a surgery on a tumor helps identify if it's cancerous or not. The biopsy requires a small amount of tissue, or the entire tumor if possible, to be removed from the body. That sample is then tested for results.In order to get the tissue sample, the surgeon...
When you have to plan to have surgery, you already know that there are risks involved. No one goes into surgery thinking that it will go exactly as planned, because every person is different and each surgery has its own complications. What you do expect is that your...
There are many steps doctors, nurses and other medical providers can take to keep patients safe. For surgeons, one of these strategies is called a surgical time out. It's an important pre-surgery break that helps reduce the risk to the patient.A surgical time out is...
If you're thinking of filing a medical malpractice case, here are a couple things to consider. First, remember that you must file your case before the statute of limitations expires. If you have been hurt in a medical malpractice case, you have two years from the time...
Approximately 4,000 people a year across the country, and likely a few here in Oregon, discover that something was left behind in their bodies after an operation. The ramifications of these types of surgical errors can range from moderate to deadly. Those who survive...