A misdiagnosis can certainly be fatal. You trust your doctor to make a quick diagnosis and get you the help that you need. If you come in with a serious problem and the doctor misses it, you know that the results could be very serious. A delayed diagnosis is similar,...
Month: June 2022
Understanding what it means to give “informed consent”
As adult patients, we have the right to decide how a medical condition or injury will be treated (with the exception of some emergency situations). We can go along with our doctor’s recommendation, ask to hear about alternatives and get a second opinion. However, if...
When you get the wrong amount of the right drug
When people think about prescription errors and medical malpractice, the first thing they often imagine is a doctor who gives a patient the wrong medication. Maybe the patient needs some medication to help thin blood clots, for example, but they're given a mild...
