Residents of Ohio go to a hospital to get better, not incur more illnesses. Unfortunately, this routinely occurs in the course of providing health care. Hospital-acquired infections, or HAIs, happen more frequently with certain at-risk factors, one of which is the...
Although the U.S. healthcare industry has some of the world's highest standards, surgical errors still occur in Ohio and throughout the country. Whether you go under the knife for a life-saving emergency procedure or an elective cosmetic surgery, you can't completely...
In recent years, an increasing number of people aged 50 and younger have been diagnosed with colon cancer. While many health organizations don't recommend regular screenings until age 50 and beyond, the median age for colon cancer patients is steadily decreasing. In...
Not all visits to a hospital are going to be for a serious issue, but the one thing all patients expect from visitation is to receive proper medical treatment. However, what happens when treatment is denied and your minor issue becomes a serious one? Does that...
Many people look to their local university medical center for care. This includes medical centers at Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, the Toledo University Medical Center or through their affiliated physicians. However, they may not realize that if they are...
Most medical malpractice lawsuits in Ohio and around the country are brought against negligent physicians, but they may also be filed against hospitals, clinics or other medical facilities, anesthesiologists, nurses or pharmaceutical companies. Whoever the defendant...
More than 1.4 million people in Ohio and the rest of the U.S. have Lewy body dementia. That's more than the number of people with muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy and ALS combined, yet doctors will often mistake LBD for a psychiatric disorder or for another form of...
Many malpractice claims involve the misdiagnosis of ophthalmic conditions, but for the most part, they are not the rare ones but rather the more relatively common ones. Many ophthalmologists are misdiagnosing retinal detachment in particular. Perhaps you had this...
If you know someone in Ohio who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or some psychiatric disorder, then hopefully the diagnosis was the correct one. The reason is that a particular condition called Lewy body dementia can be mistaken for any of...
A lawsuit has been brought against the Iowa Lutheran Hospital, several first responders, an unnamed doctor and the city of Des Moines itself by the fiancé of a man who suffered brain damage in 2018. According to the lawsuit, the man sought treatment for a respiratory...
