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Posted By Jon Schmoll Statistics show where will be a record number of people traveling during the holidays this year to celebrate with friends and family. The Langer & Langer law firm urges you to be especially mindful while driving this holiday season. Indiana has more than 96,000 miles of public road. Yet, according to the Indiana Department of Transportation’s…
Posted By Tara Worthley When you enter a hospital for medical care, you shouldn’t have to worry about your safety — or the safety of a loved one in a healthcare setting. You trust that patient safety is a primary concern for healthcare providers and that systems are in place to ensure that patient welfare is never compromised. However, on…
Posted By Tara Worthley As a patient, you have rights, and one basic right is that your healthcare providers will follow the standards of care. When they do not follow these standards, you or your loved one is at risk for serious injury. A healthcare-improvement organization called the National Quality Forum (NQF) developed a list of “serious reportable events,” also…
Posted By Tara Worthley Healthcare providers aren’t perfect, so they can make mistakes. However, if a doctor makes a “mistake” that is below the standards of care and causes serious harm to a patient—it’s not just a “mistake,” it is medical malpractice. There are some errors no physician should ever make. The National Quality Forum, a nonprofit that promotes quality…
Posted By Tara Worthley Surgery is always unsettling, but even more so when the outcome is not what you expected. The National Quality Forum (NQF), a nonprofit that promotes quality in healthcare in the U.S., developed a list of “serious reportable events,” also known as “never events,” that occur in healthcare. The NQF list is a compilation of serious, largely…
Posted By Steven Langer When you move your loved one into a long-term nursing care facility, you trust that the facility staff will provide a safe, engaging environment and an adequate level of care. Unfortunately, care delivered to seniors residing in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or senior living communities is sometimes negligent and may result in serious personal injury.…
Patients are taught to go to the emergency clinic or emergency room when they believe their lives are in danger, especially when they experience chest pain or severe pain in other parts of their bodies. Sometimes, however, the emergency-room personnel do not detect the patient’s correct condition. Often this situation results in a misdiagnosis, which, along with diagnostic-related claims like…
Posted By Tara Worthley Sometimes the most joyful moment in a new mother’s life can be tarnished by harm to her or her baby, resulting in pain and heartache. Labor and delivery healthcare providers routinely set up monitors for the mother and infant upon arrival to the hospital or delivery center. If mom and baby are not monitored properly before…
Posted By Tara Worthley A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association and discussed in The New York Times raised the concern that hospitals may be profiting from their own errors because patients need longer stays and more care to treat preventable surgical complications. When a preventable error harms a patient, this can lead to additional medical…
Posted By Tara Worthley Sometimes, healthcare providers fail to diagnose or make the wrong diagnosis of a patient’s condition. When a healthcare provider fails to timely diagnose a life-threatening condition, this can have devastating consequences for a patient and the family. Maybe a radiologist fails to correctly interpret imaging studies. Or a healthcare provider ignores a patient’s symptoms, test results,…