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Hospital Leaves Needle In Baby’s Heart
While all medical procedures have risks, there are some risks patients should not have to experience. Patients shouldn’t have to fear that doctors or other healthcare professionals will be grossly negligent, but unfortunately, there are some instances when medical negligence causes serious injuries and even wrongful death. At a Florida hospital, a surgeon operating on a baby left a needle inside the child’s heart. When the baby’s parents insisted something was wrong, the hospital didn’t believe them.
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How Do Patient Mix-Ups Happen?
It’s hard to imagine that with all of the technology available these days that simple mistakes like patient mix-ups can actually still happen. Properly identifying a patient seems like an easy task, but the reality is patient mix-ups happen all too frequently.
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Nursing Homes Abuse Drugs To Control Patients
Medications for dementia patients and other patients struggling with mental illnesses have been instrumental in improving patients’ quality of life by helping ease symptoms. However, these medications need to be used responsibly because they do come with other health and safety risks. Unfortunately, a recent report from the Human Rights Watch discovered nursing homes across the U.S. are overusing antipsychotic drugs to control patients.
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What Is “Patient Dumping” And How Can Hospitals Be Held Responsible?
For emergency rooms across the country, the more patients they see, the more money they make. Hospitals sometimes try to churn out patients to increase profits, but this is incredibly dangerous for patients. Hospitals that discharge patients too soon put them at a serious risk of further injury. This practice is called “patient dumping” and millions of Americans recently became aware of this practice when a video of a victim went viral.
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Neglect and Abuse in Psychiatric Hospitals
Most people think of hospitals as somewhere they go if they have broken an arm or are suffering from an infection; however, hospitals also help patients with illnesses that are not as obvious. Psychiatric hospitals help patients suffering from a variety of mental illnesses and operate differently than other hospitals to better cater to the specific needs of these patients. Unfortunately for patients in psychiatric hospitals, they are particularly vulnerable to neglect and abuse.
