When you visit a hospital or medical facility for injuries or illness, you trust you’ll be in good hands with the medical professionals. If you’re hospitalized, you’ll likely interact with nurses the most. A doctor will visit once or twice a day, but your main point of contact will be the nursing staff. While most nurses treat patients to...
Continue ReadingMedical technicians work alongside doctors in hospitals and respond to emergencies. Medical technicians often handle life-and-death tasks. It’s easy to imagine how the pressure of an emergency could result in emergency medical technician medical malpractice. Such medical errors can result in grave injury. You may wonder if medical technicians can be liable for medical malpractice. Medical technicians are health...
Continue ReadingMost patients want anesthesia when they undergo a medical procedure. Anesthesia prevents patients from feeling pain during a procedure. Anesthesiologists are physicians who administer anesthesia to patients. Despite being trained and licensed, anesthesiologists sometimes make negligent errors that result in severe injury or even death. As healthcare providers, anesthesiologists can be liable for medical malpractice. Patients who bring anesthesiologist...
Continue ReadingAccording to the Center for Disease Control, nearly 900,000 people in the United States may be affected by a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis. However, pulmonary embolism misdiagnosis is relatively common. One study found emergency departments misdiagnose 27.5% of patients suffering from pulmonary embolisms. You may wonder about your remedies for a pulmonary embolism misdiagnosis. Depending on the...
Continue ReadingIt can be difficult to handle an infection after going through surgery and attempting to determine whether you ought to file suit at the same time. You may be wondering, can you sue if you get an infection after surgery? Part of the answer depends on the cause of your infection. In this article, the medical malpractice lawyers at...
Continue ReadingFiling a medical malpractice suit can be strenuous while attempting to pay for continuing medical treatment. It is even more stressful if you are disabled or have an ongoing injury or illness due to malpractice but want to file the lawsuit yourself. Overall, this is a tremendous challenge to take on without a lawyer. In fact, doing so may...
Continue ReadingIf a medical professional whom you entrusted with your care has harmed you, we recognize how difficult this can be. It can be even more arduous to determine how to file a lawsuit while you are trying to recover. When learning how to file a medical malpractice claim, there are several steps involved in New Mexico. At times, it...
Continue ReadingFor many families, bringing a child into the world is one of the greatest joys life has to offer. However, for parents of a child born with a life-changing disability, this moment—while still joyous—is also marred by thoughts of what the child’s life will be like. At the medical malpractice law firm of Poulos & Coates, LLP, we proudly...
Continue ReadingGoing under general anesthesia can be scary. You are likely scared of both the medical procedure you are undergoing and scared of getting the anesthesia itself. Patient fears about anesthesia are not unfounded, as anesthesia errors often leave patients with severe and lifelong disabilities. These medical mistakes are also more common than most people realize. For example, according to...
Continue ReadingA stroke is a medical term used to describe a situation where the brain suffers permanent injury due to an interruption of its blood supply. While some strokes occur without notice, many are detectable. Thus, after experiencing a stroke, many patients and their loved ones wonder whether the stroke was preventable. Indeed, misdiagnosis of a stroke is not uncommon,...
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