As discussed in the previous post, far too many preventable medical errors continue to occur every day in hospitals across the country, causing great and unnecessary harm to patients. One problem is that the hierarchical culture of hospitals creates an environment where the doctor is the leader and overconfident that
As discussed in the previous post, a recent article in Kaiser Health News noted that medical errors in hospitals are one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer. Hospitals have not done much to improve patient safety over the last decade, but some institutions
More than ten years ago the Institute of Medicine estimated that 100,000 people die in hospitals due to preventable errors every year in the U.S. According to Kaiser Health News, the situation in the country is now worse. In 2010, a government report said that 15,000 Medicare patients were dying
As discussed in the previous post, a recent study found that babies born to mothers who had received an epidural and developed a fever had a higher risk of birth injuries. The study results were published in the February issue of Pediatrics. The study looked at about 3,200 women who
A new study recently published in Pediatrics said that babies born to women who develop a fever after being administered an epidural during labor have a greater risk of suffering birth injuries. These issues with the baby’s health at birth include having poor muscle tone, low Apgar scores, seizures and
As discussed in the previous post, a court in Pennsylvania recently ruled that a mother could sue the doctor who delivered her baby for causing emotional distress even though he didn’t cause harm through physical negligence. The mother was shocked when the baby who her doctor had informed her during
Ask any expecting mother in Ohio whether they want a boy or a girl baby, and most will probably say they just want a healthy baby. Most expecting mothers go through a lot of effort to make sure that the chances are as good as possible for that to happen.