Before patients undergo procedures or treatments that their doctors have recommended, their physicians must inform them about the risks involved with the proposed procedures or treatments. The process involved with informing patients about the risks is known as obtaining their informed consent. When a doctor fails to get informed consent or fails to adequately warn […]
Missed diagnoses are among the most common types of medical errors that doctors sometimes make. If you go to the doctor because you are feeling unwell and are told that you are fine, the doctor might have made a medical mistake especially when you are suffering from a serious condition that he or she failed […]
When patients go to the hospital or to their doctors’ offices while experiencing medical conditions or after having suffered injuries, they are frequently at their most vulnerable. Patients might be harmed when their doctors refuse to provide them with treatment or by ending care before it is medically reasonable. Patient abandonment occurs when a doctor […]
Medical malpractice can result in serious injuries or deaths, and it is much more common than many people realize. According to research published in 2017 in the journal Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, medical errors result in 251,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, making medical negligence the third-leading cause of preventable death in […]
All states, including Pennsylvania, have statutes of limitations for different types of legal actions. These laws restrict the time during which legal cases can be filed. When people do not file civil complaints within the limitations period, they lose their rights to recover damages for their losses. However, statutes of limitations do have some exceptions, […]