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The human body is complex, with a robust system for healing. Unfortunately, medical conditions, injuries, and surgical procedures are also complex, with many opportunities for complications that sometimes make a patient’s healing or recovery go awry. Fortunately, adequate follow-up care promptly addresses and corrects most cases of complications, but what happens when a medical provider’s…
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We put our lives in the hands of medical professionals when we need treatment for an injury or illness, require surgery, or seek a diagnosis for painful or frightening symptoms. Unfortunately, medical professionals are human beings, and sometimes they make careless errors, act negligently, or use faulty devices. When a doctor or other medical provider’s…
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Placing your health and your very life in the hands of a doctor or other medical provider requires a leap of faith and the expectation that the medical professional will uphold their legal duty to provide the standard of care accepted by the medical community. Sadly, a controversial Johns Hopkins study found that as many…
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Some instances of medical malpractice are immediately identifiable, such as waking up from surgery to find that they operated on the wrong limb or performed the operation meant for another patient. However, not all medical malpractice cases are as instantly understood. If you aren’t a doctor yourself, you might wonder if your worsened condition or…
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