Fighting For Justice And Your Best Interests
Medical professionals have never been subject to more oversight and professional requirements than those imposed in the modern healthcare system. Many healthcare providers, including quite a few successful surgeons, work for corporate medical practices or hospitals....
Errors that occur in operating rooms can be devastating, yet they occur with alarming frequency. Examples include wrong-site, wrong-person and wrong-procedure errors. Other errors include performing unnecessary procedures, leaving a foreign object in a patient's body,...
Surgeons are trained to perform some of the most stressful and life-defining jobs around – operating on sick and injured patients. And while most surgeons handle their jobs with the seriousness it deserves, a few fail to perform their duties with the level of...
Every physician practicing medicine in the United States has extensive education. They complete a college degree and then attend medical school. Their education involves a residency, where they work hands-on in the area of medicine that they hope to practice while...
Making the decision to have a leg or other limb amputated is incredibly difficult. It’s hard to imagine life without one of your legs. Now imagine waking up from surgery and the doctor and his staff are standing around your bed and they look grim. Someone tells you...
The overwhelming majority of surgeons, anesthesiologists, perioperative nurses and other operating room staff perform their duties with care and professionalism, but it only takes one instance of medical malpractice to cause a serious and life-changing injury....
More patients are surviving pancreatic cancer every year. It’s a relief for patients, families and doctors to finally see better success in the treatment of the disease. The survival rate of patients five years after diagnosis is currently about 9%, while in 2014 the...
Patients in Iowa may be interested to learn that there is a link between a higher chance of post-operative complications and surgeons whose bad behavior has been reported by co-workers. This is according to a study in which reports regarding the unprofessional...
Wrong-site surgery continues to be a major problem in Central Iowa and across the U.S., according to medical malpractice experts. In fact, it is estimated that American surgeons perform between 40 and 60 wrong-site surgeries each week nationwide. These surgical errors...
When people living in Iowa seek medical care, they place a significant amount of trust in their physicians. This is particularly true when somebody undergoes surgery. While surgeries are often life-saving, they carry with them several risks. If a surgery goes wrong,...