News tagged with 'Hospitals'

A published study points to July as the worst month for surgeries and fatal medication errors. The problems were found at teaching hospitals, not nonteaching hospitals suggesting that new doctors may be to blame.

Increasingly hospitals are turning to risk calculators, based on thousands of procedures nationally, to inform consumers the risk of their procedure and complications.

Hospitals and doctors turn to a basic of human compassion - saying I'm sorry -  when they make a medical mistake to lower the costs associated with litigation.  About five percent of doctors in the U.S. are responsible for about 54 percent of all malpractice, according to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

After a new ruling by the California Supreme Court, consumers will no longer be caught in the middle of fee disputes between their HMO and ER hospitals and doctors.  The HMO and doctor/ hospital will have to work it out on their own without harassing the consumer to pay.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a new report that highlights key factors on why it is so difficult for hospitals to recruit and retain registered nurses. RNs are the biggest group of health care providers employed by the VA’s health care system.

Patients with colon cancer need to ask more questions of their doctors  - among them- how many lymph nodes have you taken and have they been tested for cancer? A followup colonoscopy is recommended for those who've had a positive diagnosis.  Many hospitals are falling short of the recommended treatment protocols, two studies find.

Nine surgeries were either done on the wrong site, or the wrong surgery was performed in Utah hospitals last year. Of those, seven included foreign objects being left inside the patient.

In the event of a terrorist attack, U.S. hospitals in seven cities are already unprepared and cannot take further cuts to Medicaid, public health hospital emergency rooms and physician training, lawmakers discussed.

A Swiss study looked at whether pre-testing hospital patients for MRSA and then isolating them would cut down on infection. Surprisingly, that didn't have any impact on the number of MRSA infections which kill about 19,000 annually in the U.S.

More than a year after her near death experience from a flesh eating infection, Actress Alicia Cole wants the public to become more aware of the infection and how difficult it is to find a lawyer to take your case.  *Disclaimer- graphic photo at end of story.

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Two Duke University Health System hospitals have been forced to contact and notify some 3,800 patients that they may have been operated on with surgical instruments that were inadvertently rinsed with used elevator hydraulic fluid .  Although the story sounds almost too incredible to believe, it ac

A St. Paul, Minnesota hospital issued an apology Monday for accidentally amputating a healthy woman's breasts in June 2002. Linda McDougal, 46, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer after her physician at United Hospital ordered a biopsy when a suspicious spot appeared on her mammogram. Unknown to McDo

The family of an Illinois teenager who suffered irreversible brain damage when a Chicago hospital botched his delivery will receive $18.4 million as part of a settlement reached Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. Daniel Donohue was born at Palos Community Hospital on March 5, 1985 but suffered brain damage after ho

A Maryland jury recently awarded $10 million to the family of a teenager who died after doctors failed to diagnose a fatal condition on time. On September 9, 1999, 19-year-old Benjamin Strange was admitted to the University of Maryland Hospital complaining of severe nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. After conducting sev