Medical Malpractice

While people in Brooklyn may not always enjoy taking medication, it goes without saying that some of these medications are absolutely necessary for our good health and well-being. However, preventable medication errors do occur, harming those taking the medication. In...

As much as New Yorkers might think otherwise, when they visit their doctors, the physician is really just giving her best educated professional guess about what is wrong. She then prescribes a treatment based on that guess. The stakes are often high. For example, a...

Surgery is an invasive medical treatment that is performed by specialists in sterile, controlled hospital settings. When a surgeon performs an operation on a patient, they often must, through instruments, enter a body part of their patient to fix or remove a problem,...

Drug names can be similar. Without appropriate precautions, this can lead to pharmacy errors that prevent treatment or cause patient harm. There are several ways to prevent confusion and medical malpractice lawsuits from these type of medication errors. Causes Generic...

Going to the hospital for some form of treatment, especially a surgical procedure, can be enormously stressful. Yet, at that time you might have a number of documents thrust your direction to sign, many of which deal with the doctor and hospital’s liability. However,...