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Hospital and nursing home patients depend upon their nurses to render care to them when they are at their most vulnerable point. Far more than the doctors who issue orders to them, nurses are intimately involved in the hands-on care of their patients. Most nurses enter the healing profession out of a desire to care for others and ease their suffering. But there is a subset of the nursing profession

Congress has recently introduced several bills related to the civil justice system that impact the constitutional rights of all Americans. In general, these bills are favorable to negligent care providers and large corporations and make it more difficult for us to exercise our Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. Perhaps the most troubling is: · H.R. 985, the “Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act”

When determining a medical diagnosis, doctors and nurses rely on radiology to get a better look inside the body. Standard procedures such as x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, PET scans and MRIs all fall under the umbrella of radiology. Although these procedures are highly prevalent in the medical field, could they be unreliable? A recent study published in The Spine Journal in late 2016 found diagnostic error rates were as high

Kentucky residents may have heard that according to a teenage tonsillectomy patient’s mother, her daughter began bleeding from the nose and mouth shortly after awakening from the surgery before going into cardiac arrest. Attending physicians eventually pronounced brain death and announced plans to remove life support not long after. That decision was apparently overruled by parental objection with requests for more time. According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology data,

Problems with anesthesia can lead to insufficient blood flow that can ultimately result in brain damage. Often errors in administering anesthesia come about due to simple communication errors between medical staff. The results of such errors can be devastating, but there does appear to be good news concerning its use. Fear of adverse reactions to anesthesia too often has influenced patients in Ohio and Kentucky to put off having necessary