| Malpractice Arising from Bad Surgical Techniques |
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| When an operation is unsuccessful, the injured patient and his or her family may seek to blame the physician. It certainly is tempting to look to the surgeon's technique when the patient's injury is the result of inadvertent cutting, tearing or crushing of tissue, or hemorrhaging from poorly tied blood vessels. Frequently, it is the bad technique of the surgeon that is responsible for the mishap, but that is not always the case. More... |
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| Nursing Shortages |
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| Nurses themselves raise the issue of inadequate staffing when asked about why incidents and mistakes occur in hospitals. Inadequate staffing may be the result of a number of factors, including an insufficient number of nurses being trained and entering the workforce or cutbacks in registered nurses' positions by healthcare agencies in order to cut expenses. Whatever the reason, there is a growing recognition that there is an inadequate number of nurses to meet the needs of patients in hospitals and nursing homes. More... |
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| Dental Malpractice |
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| Dental Malpractice More... |
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| Electronic Fetal Monitoring and Malpractice |
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| Electronic Fetal Monitoring and Malpractice More... |
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| Malpractice Liability of Sports Medical Care Providers |
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| Children and young adults are playing a large variety of sports in ever-increasing numbers. As the number of participants increases, so does the occurrence of sports-related injuries and deaths resulting in more medical malpractice actions against team physicians and sports trainers. More... |
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