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Predicting a Hospital’s Quality of Care
There are often multiple potential options to choose from for hospital care. Healthcare choices are serious decisions but reliable ratings and metrics for these facilities can be hard to come by. Some patients in need of care and/or their loved ones helping with the search will look to ratings compiled by the federal government agency…
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What To Know About Filing A Medical Malpractice Case
If you or someone you care about requires medical care, you expect those in charge to make you and your loved ones feel better, not worse. Medical malpractice occurs when a physician fails to properly treat a medical condition and this negligence causes a new problem or aggravates an existing issue. Medical malpractice can have…
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Common Reasons for Patient Complaints About Doctors
Though we as patients would all like to believe our doctors are larger-than-life and can do no wrong, they do have flaws and can make mistakes on the job while practicing medicine. While we might feel safer and more secure thinking of a doctor’s missteps as being related to trivial things like forgetting their lunch…
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Operating Room Cameras and Surgical Malpractice Claims
Video and audio recording technology have greatly impacted many industries. For example, airplanes are outfitted with black box recorders to help investigators understand what occurred in the event of an aviation accident. Police also utilize body cameras to provide recordings of their encounters with the public that can be used as evidence. Some nursing home…
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Patient Dumping: What You Need to Know
Hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical care facilities around the country have been cited for what is known as “patient dumping.” This occurs when a treating facility releases a patient in an improper and often dangerous way, such as leaving them outside in the winter cold at a bus stop in a hospital gown and…
