Category: Medical Malpractice
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What Does the Medical Malpractice Cap Mean for My Case?
On March 5, 2014, the Missouri House passed a bill limiting non-economic damages in a medical malpractice action to $350,000. This is not the first time Missouri has attempted to limit the damages that a victim of medical malpractice can recover. From 2005 through 2012, there was a limit on non-economic damages. In 2012, the…
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Surgery: Fixing The Issue, or Furthering It?
Medicine is an aspect of our lives that we heavily depend on no matter who we are, and what our background may be. Either way you look at it the facts are simple: we all deal with illness, injuries, or possibly more severe health issues at one point or another. Inevitably, we all turn to…
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Hazards Within A Hospital
In our world today, we heavily rely on the care, and treatment that exists within hospitals, and health clinics all throughout the Untied States whether we are dealing with just a simple virus, broken bone, or serious health issue. Within these facilities we rest assure and trust that our doctors, nurses, surgeons, and even the…
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Is Technology Making, or Breaking Medical Malpractice?
Medicine is one aspect of our world today that we heavily rely on no matter what part of the world we reside in. When it comes down to medicine we use it for multiple reasons whether we simply have the cold, or a more serious health problem. However, in order to get medication, and the…
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Do Surgical Errors Reported Properly?
Medicine and medical treatment is one aspect of our lives that we heavily depend on especially in this day and age. Today, we rely on the experience, and knowledge of doctors and health professionals to help us with a variety of needs that range from diagnosis of our illness, prescribing medication or a treatment plan,…
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Falsification of Health Care Professionals Credentials
In the world we live in today we rely heavily on the realm of modern medicine. When we have a headache we take a form of aspirin, or when we are having body aches and pains we might take a pain relieve. Either way, medicine plays a vital, and average role in our lives today.…
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Misdiagnosis Common With Ovarian Cancer
Today, modern medicine has helps individuals in many various aspects of their life whether they are injured, ill, or dealing with some mental issues. We rely on our physicians, surgeons, nurses, and other health care professionals heavily to not only identify our health issue at hand, but also create an accurate, proper treatment plan. However,…
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Small Procedures Ending With Big Problems
Mistakes are a common part of life that we have each and every day. Although mistakes are only natural, in the field of medicine there are no room for that mistakes. Medical malpractice, today, is impacting more lives each and every day. Reports state that the rate of medical malpractice is not just increasing each…
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Health Care, or Clinical Trial?
Today, medical malpractice is currently at an all time high within the United States. As we all know mistakes, and accidents happen, but there is hardly any room for them within the medical field. When individuals seek out health care they expect treatment that will help them become well, and healthy. However, with today’s standard…
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Protecting Yourself From Malpractice
Today, medical malpractice is a very real aspect of life. Many individuals easily go in for a harmless corrective procedure, and walk out with lifelong debilitating health problem, which can easily result in that individual’s death. Malpractice impacts the lives of many each and every year and unfortunately it is ending up with more and…