When Missourians have a serious medical condition, they want to know about the different treatment options that are available to them. They want information about the surgeons and the procedures that need to be performed. They will also look at success rates, to determine which facility will best allow them to completely recover. Recently, a new study examined what...
Read MoreIn 2009, a Maine man was told that the symptoms he had reported were those of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Since the disease is extremely aggressive, when it’s caught in late stages it often results in death. The 47-year-old was told he only had months to live, so he took time off from his job and started trying to...
Read MoreIf you have an infant or a young child, sickness can be so common it’s frustrating. But what if the doctor you rely on to diagnose and treat those childhood sicknesses makes a serious mistake? Failure to diagnose illness correctly is far too common, so it’s good to have some basic information of your own so you can ask...
Read MoreIn 2006, a Tulsa man says, a plastic surgeon convinced him to undergo a simple rhinoplasty, or cosmetic nose job. That surgery was badly botched, and another surgery was required. And then another. Tragically, after a total of 22 surgeries the man is now left with no nose at all and has been forced to breathe through a straw...
Read MoreFew Kansas City residents likely spend much time thinking about the possibility that they, or a loved one, will be the victim of an action that constitutes medical malpractice. Despite this, individuals throughout the state of Missouri are the recipients of negligent care at the hands of medical providers. Sometimes, the negligent care is obvious and injuries are suffered....
Read MoreThe Food and Drug Administration recently put out a warning that the drug Depakote, known generically as divalproex sodium, taken during pregnancy may cause brain damage that could lower the child’s IQ by as much as 11 points, on average. The drug, which is prescribed to treat seizures, bipolar disorder and chronic migraines, already carries a warning that it...
Read MoreWhat would you do if you were in the midst of delivering your child and you thought something was wrong? Ideally, you wouldn’t have to worry, because your doctors and nurses have you hooked up to a variety of machines that are keeping track of how you and your baby are doing. They have years of training; you just...
Read MoreA local man claims that a doctor, the founder of the clinic Health Centers of America in Kansas City, falsely diagnosed him with 18 different diseases, all before she bothered to examine him, take a medical history, run diagnostic tests, or indeed meet him at all. In addition to making false diagnoses ranging from insomnia to cortico-adrenal insufficiency, the...
Read MoreDiagnostic errors “are completely underrepresented in terms of what we pay attention to,” says the lead author of a new study just published in the medical journal BMJ Quality & Safety. If the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers are right, failure to diagnose patient conditions accurately and in time may be the cause of as many as...
Read MoreWhen a New York medical malpractice lawyer turned down an $8 million settlement offer for a girl born with severe cerebral palsy due to birth injuries, everyone thought he was crazy. When took the case to trial and lost, it looked like they were right. That case was overturned on appeal, however, and had to be retried. The second...
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