| Failure to Diagnose Stroke |
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| Failure to Diagnose StrokeMore... |
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| Liability of Ambulance Attendants and Emergency Medical Technicians |
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| Many times the first contact that a sick or injured individual has with a hospital is when an ambulance arrives at his home, the attendant and the emergency medical technician work over him, and he is loaded into the ambulance for the trip to the hospital. Now assume that the patient is in even worse shape when he gets to the hospital, and the reason for the decline in his condition appears to be the conduct of the emergency health care provider. Does the patient have a cause of action for medical malpractice against the health care providers or their employers, and if so, do the health care providers have any defenses against the action?More... |
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| Failure to Diagnose Ectopic Pregnancy |
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| Failure to Diagnose Ectopic PregnancyMore... |
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| Physician's Duty to Warn of Drug Risks |
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| Physician's Duty to Warn of Drug RisksMore... |
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| Malpractice Arising from Bad Surgical Techniques |
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| When an operation is unsuccessful, the injured patient and his or her family may seek to blame the physician. It certainly is tempting to look to the surgeon's technique when the patient's injury is the result of inadvertent cutting, tearing or crushing of tissue, or hemorrhaging from poorly tied blood vessels. Frequently, it is the bad technique of the surgeon that is responsible for the mishap, but that is not always the case.More... |
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