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Nursing home patients susceptible to poor dental care

Nursing home staff members and personnel are given enormous amounts of responsibility to care for residents and patients. Staff members generally understand the basic standard of care they owe residents, including assisting with bathing to avoid poor hygiene. But for some reason, dental hygiene is frequently overlooked, some say at epidemic rates.In New York, a study from 2006 revealed that of five facilities in the upstate area, only 16 percent of nursing home residents had

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August 14, 2013

Big-name hospital doesn’t correlate to safer surgery necessarily

Hospitals, like everything else in life, have reputations. When New York patients are picking a hospital before a surgery, some patients may seek out the hospitals with the most name recognition, best reputation or for being associated with a top-notch medical school. Frankly, health-care consumers don’t have much other information to go on.According to Consumer Reports (CR), sometimes the top hospitals aren’t necessarily the best when it comes to surgery. CR reviewed government data and

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August 8, 2013

Health panel recommends low-dose screening to detect lung cancer

When the right tools and industry knowledge are available to detect a certain illness, health care professionals must utilize those tools to diagnose patients. If a doctor fails to abide by this standard of care and misses a critical diagnosis, any New York Failure to Diagnose Cancer Lawyer could tell our readers that a patient injured as a result of the failure may bring a medical malpractice lawsuit against the negligent party.While early detection is

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August 1, 2013

Bed rest may not be the best solution for expecting New York moms

As the Duchess of Cambridge was whisked away to the hospital to give birth, the world anxiously awaited the news of the royal baby. This provides a good opportunity to discuss with local New York residents and expecting mothers the potential complications that may arise from labor and delivery, in addition to the miracle of birth.Thankfully, the duchess’ pregnancy was relatively low-key, aside from some serious morning sickness early on. Not all expectant mothers are

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July 24, 2013

Routine procedures and surgery can create malpractice claims

Medical malpractice comes in all forms and can run the range on levels of seriousness. Any time a doctor or hospital fails to abide by the accepted standard of care, and that failure results in injury or harm to a patient, there may be cause for a claim of malpractice.Surgeon error certainly ranks up there with the scariest instances of doctor negligence because patients are truly vulnerable as they are under anesthesia. Many surgeries are

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July 19, 2013

Organ donation surgery almost performed on living woman

Surgeons are highly skilled professionals. Years of studying, schooling and residency make for very knowledgeable and confident surgeons, yet this confidence can sometimes come at a cost. Some surgeons feel they can do no wrong and this feeling of infallibility can be harmful to patients in the long run. Doctors should understand their own limitations and always be aware of the risks that come with surgery and other medical procedures. This awareness will only prove

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July 12, 2013

Family awarded $5 million in birth injury case

It’s difficult enough to read about injuries to young children, but imagine when children are injured right as they are being brought into this world. The labor and delivery process is supposed to be a miraculous and happy event, but can quickly turn into a traumatic event when medical complications arise. The dangers are posed both to the mother and newborn child. There’s no doubt that New York mothers are aware of the dangers of

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July 4, 2013

Statute of limitations problematic for some malpractice claims

Nobody wants to come in last. But when it comes to hospital safety, states don’t even celebrate coming in the middle of the pack because health care and patient safety is such an important issue. New York just received some bad news when it came in 32nd in a ranking of patient safety. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the laws in New York may throw up barriers for injured patients to bring a claim

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June 27, 2013

New York bill addresses hospital, nursing home staffing levels

In light of all the troubling news stories, it is always hopeful to hear about initiatives that are trying to make the world, or at least New York, a better place. Right now, advocates in New York are fighting to increase the nurse to patient ratio at the state’s acute care hospitals. The promise is that increased nurse staffing will reduce patient complications and death and eventually reduce health care costs overall.The advocates are pushing

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June 21, 2013

Plastic surgery error leaves New York man without nose

Any botched surgery seems unnecessary and unfortunate. But with plastic surgery, there is an extra air of regret because many of the procedures are optional or elective. Although elective, these cosmetic surgeries should be performed with the exact same standard of care as any other surgery. Tell this to the New York man who is still without his nose following an initial nose job over five years ago.Following a divorce, the man admits he opted

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June 13, 2013

Private medical company facing trouble for failure to diagnose

Thankful to the many advances in medical technology, many of the diseases and health concerns that were previously deadly or fatal are now easily treatable. The trick, however, is catching the disease before it is too far progressed. This idea of early treatment is so important that doctors can be responsible for failing to diagnose an issue before it is too late. Especially for quick moving cancers, if a patient suffers because a doctor missed

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June 7, 2013

Robotic-assisted surgeries raise questions about surgeon error

Medical malpractice 101 teaches us that surgeons and doctors must abide by a certain accepted standard of care when dealing with patients. Doctors and physicians must not act recklessly or negligently, and if they do and a patient suffers harm, the doctor who breeched that standard of care is liable. But how does this standard of care principal apply to robot-assisted surgeries? What if a defective medical device is not the issue but rather the

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May 30, 2013
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