Category: Medical Malpractice
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Discuss A Medical Device Gone Wrong
When you are ill or experiencing a medical problem, you turn to your trusted family physician or medical provider. Depending on your ailment, your doctor will recommend a course of treatment. While some patients may have questions regarding a prescribed treatment most patients do not question the treatment itself. In other words, patients have a…
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Answer Commonly Asked Questions about Cosmetic Surgery Errors
Are you contemplating going under the knife for a cosmetic procedure? Are does the idea of having a cosmetic surgery worry you? If so, that is totally normal. Even before electing to undergo a cosmetic procedure, most people have heard of numerous plastic surgery horror stories. Take, for example, the celebrity who had an eyebrow…
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Offer Tips on How Parents Can Protect Their Children From Medical Errors
Having a child who is ill or has just been diagnosed with a serious medical condition can create a feeling of helplessness in a parent. As a parent, you want to do anything and everything in your power to help your child. Parents often report feeling at their most helpless when their child is admitted…
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Five Things Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Want You to Know
In 2013, a study in the Journal of Patient Safety made headlines when it set forth data that made “medical negligence/errors” the third leading causing of death, just after heart disease and cancer. The study found that 210,000 and 440,000 deaths per year could it part be attributed to medical error. For this reason alone,…
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Explains Common Birth Injuries Associated with C-Sections
People hear the words “birth injury” and think that this is something that only occurs in the third world countries or in rural areas—places that are completely void of modern medicine. Most people are completely shocked to learn that birth injuries do happen in the United States and in modern hospitals. The fact of the…
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Warn of the Dangers of Medication Errors in Hospitals
When you are seriously sick or injured, you would think that one of the best places to be would be the hospital. While hospitals can be great places to receive medical treatment after an accident, a hospital can also be a place where “accidents” happen. The last thing any patient needs when he or she…
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Discuss the “July Effect” – Myth or More?
Your child falls while at the playground and you think his or her arm may be broken. You are doing yard work and while bending over to lift something, your back spasms and you are suddenly unable to move. While at the local pool your spouse forgets to put on sunscreen and suffers a severe…
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Kansas City Medical Malpractice Attorneys Answer Frequently Asked Questions about Cerebral Palsy
Planning for the arrival of a new baby is an exciting time for most expectant parents. Some folks have compared it to organizing a once in a lifetime dream vacation or feeling like a kid again awaiting for Christmas morning. Any new parent will tell you that the journey was well worth the wait the…
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How to Choose the Best Medical Malpractice Attorney for Your Case
Unfortunately, medical malpractice occurs much too often in the United States. Each year, patients are injured or killed as the result of: missed, wrong or delayed diagnosis; medication errors; surgery errors; anesthesia errors; and errors made during childbirth or while the woman was pregnant. After a devastating injury caused by a medical professional, it is…
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Do I Have a Case for Medical Malpractice?
For many people, it is difficult to decide to pursue a medical malpractice action. For one thing, the process of selecting a doctor is a difficult one and there is a trust relationship that is developed once a person finally has selected his doctor. It is tough to think about this professional having made a…