What Medical Mistakes are likely to cause a Medical Malpractice lawsuit? National Public Radio (NPR) has reported some staggering statistics about medical mistakes: In 1999, it was determined that 98,000 people a year die from medical mistakes, according to the Institute of Medicine. In 2010, 180,000 patients had a wrongful death from mistakes in Medicare alone, according […]
When patients visit their family practitioner, a specialist or a hospital emergency room, they typically assume that medical professionals will conduct proper diagnostic screening and provide appropriate medical treatment. Although it may be comforting to believe that medical professional are infallible, a staggering number of people die each year because of medical malpractice by doctors, […]
