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Medical misdiagnosis is a big problem in the United States. A current report in BMJ Quality & Safety shows that one out of 20 adults might not receive a proper medical diagnosis. In about half of those incidents of misdiagnosis, the patient might suffer serious harm as a result. This means that approximately 5 percent of outpatient diagnoses are incorrect. The study examined three prior studies that were related to

For people who are in pain, injections are sometimes the only thing they can find that helps to alleviate their pain. While most people can count on doctors to perform these injections properly, other people have doctors who don’t follow proper protocol. One recent jury award in a medical malpractice lawsuit brings the issue of the risks of pain injections into the limelight. The medical malpractice lawsuit has to do

Having to deal with any type of legal matter is often difficult for celebrities. The desire of fans to know what is going on with their favorite people often means that the celebrities have little privacy. For baseball player Alex Rodriguez, the desire to keep private matters private might not be a choice he can make when it comes to the medical malpractice lawsuit he filed against the Yankees team

Kentucky patients may be interested to learn that many doctors and other members of the medical community have largely ignored cobalamin, or vitamin B12, deficiency as a potential diagnosis for certain neurological symptoms. While this may not seem like a big deal, current studies indicate that at least 48 million Americans may suffer from B12 deficiency. For example, contemporary studies indicate that B12 deficiency could cause dementia, anemia, bone marrow

With the advances in medical imaging technology that many patients in Kentucky and across the nation have access to, it is not difficult to find any abnormality in the body. However, according to experts, all people have some abnormalities, but few of them are actually dangerous. When abnormalities are found, doctors and patients naturally want to take action, but sometimes, the treatment is more harmful to the patient than the

The University of Toledo Medical Center has reached an agreement in a lawsuit filed by a patient for medical malpractice. Specifically, the patient alleged that the hospital’s failure to diagnose his brain bleed led to a stroke. The hospital has agreed to pay $499,900 to the patient to settle his claim. The settlement agreement has been approved by the courts. The plaintiff claimed he was a patient at the hospital

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which oversees the state’s prisons, has agreed to a $350,000 settlement for a claim made by a former inmate for failure to diagnose a herniation of his spine. The victim was incarcerated at the Belmont Correctional Institution in 2008 when he visited the prison’s physician for numbness of his left leg and weakness in his left hand. At the time, the prison physician

A new study shows that as many as one-third of all tumors revealed by mammograms may be benign, and focus on mammography may have resulted in the overdiagnosis of breast cancer in more than a million women in the past 30 years. However, avoiding mammograms may lead to failure to diagnose malignant cancers as well. The study purports that rising breast cancer survival rates are more likely due to improvements

Unfortunately, even obvious symptoms can be missed by physicians. For this reason, patients from Ohio and Kentucky can always use a second opinion if they suspect something is being missed or misdiagnosed. One illness that is increasingly being misdiagnosed among patients under the age of 50 is cancer – in particular colorectal cancer. Rates of colorectal cancer have been on the rise for individuals under fifty. This comes about in

It should never be assumed that patients will prevail in every medical malpractice action. Such lawsuits are complex, and trying such a case often requires an attorney to jump over a number of legal hurdles. In a neighboring state of Ohio and Kentucky, a lawsuit concerning the failure to diagnose a case of malignant melanoma was dismissed by that state’s Supreme Court because the plaintiffs did not bring a lawsuit

A former Ohio University student is claiming that an incorrect diagnosis led to her arm being unnecessarily amputated. The student had three times reported to the medical facility complaining about severe pain, fever, and nausea. Each time she was mistakenly diagnosed with a sore throat, muscle pain, and anxiety when in fact, she was suffering from a flesh-eating bacterium known as necrotizing fasciitis. The challenges the young woman faces in

A physician’s failure to diagnose a problem may be a common event, but it often can also lead to catastrophic consequences. Out in the western U.S., a jury just returned a $3.9 million verdict against a physician who sent a woman home that was suffering from severe migraine headaches and extremely high blood pressure. What the woman was instead suffering from was bleeding of the brain that could have been