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In South Carolina, doctors sometimes misdiagnose brain cancer. There are several reasons for this, many related to the fact that brain cancer often has symptoms that indicate less serious maladies. Doctors even have a phrase about looking for common illnesses first:...
When a person goes to a medical facility for care, the last thing he or she expects is for their healthcare provider to make a mistake. However, errors happen and they may rise to the level of medical malpractice. Medical malpractice does not apply merely if a patient...
Advances in the medical field can have life-changing results for patients. Unfortunately, though, sometimes those life-changing results are for the worse. Surgical errors can lead to disability and death, misdiagnoses or failures to diagnose can lead to worsened...
Most people trust the medical professionals who treat them. After all, doctors receive extensive education, training, and on-the-job experience before being turned loose to treat patients on their own. Yet, despite their credentials, even the most reputable medical...
When a loved one is in a nursing home, your expectation is that the nursing home providers will care for them. You want them to be treated like family. There are some signs that you should be aware of that abuse may be taking place, though, even if the nursing home...
When a patient goes to the doctor or hospital for treatment and has negative consequences to their treatment, they may be quick to claim they suffered from medical malpractice. Just because there was a negative consequence to treatment does not mean that medical...
More than 30 years ago, Congress established an entity called the National Practitioner Data Bank with the idea that there needed to be a way to protect the public from health care abuses and bad doctors. The NPDB was meant to serve as a sort of clearinghouse that...
Hospitals, urgent care and other healthcare facilities are aggressively managed to ensure a sterile environment. Patients with dangerous infectious diseases are quarantined, doctors and nurses vigorously scrub up between patients, and “clean rooms” are utilized to...
Patricia Brouwer v. Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals, et al, 409 S.C. 514, 763 S.E.2d 200 (SC Supreme Court) We at the Law Firm of Daryl Hawkins couldn’t be more proud to be a part of the process to simplify the process of filing of a medical lawsuit in South...
A Vienna man receiving treatment in a Reston, Virginia medical suite has received $500,000 in damages after a jury sided with him in a defamation suit against the medical staff. The patient set his phone to record his doctor’s instructions after his colonoscopy...