Medical Malpractice

Oklahoma residents depend on hospitals to improve their health and save their lives, but statistics show that hospitals can be downright dangerous. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 700,000 Americans develop infections while being...

If an Oklahoma doctor or other medical professional makes a mistake that leads to a patient being harmed, a malpractice suit may be filed. However, most people choose to resolve the matter without going to court as only one in eight will actually file a lawsuit....

Oklahoma residents sometimes suffer from rare diseases. Unfortunately, doctors sometimes mistake the symptoms of a rare disease for other disorders and fail to diagnose them. This can result in the doctor providing the wrong treatment or delaying it, causing further...

Oklahoma residents who have followed the career of physician Stanislaw Burzunski, a popular but controversial doctor who treats cancer patients, may have heard that he is under investigation by the Texas medical board that is trying to revoke his license. The doctor...

One of the difficulties doctors have experienced when treating patients diagnosed with colon cancer has been in knowing when to use chemotherapy following surgical removal of tumors. According to a recent study, Oklahoma oncologists might avoid a misdiagnosis by using...

Surgical errors are a common form of medical malpractice in Oklahoma and around the country. A team at Oxford University in England has conducted studies about how to reduce them. Two approaches were common in surgical error prevention previously. One involved trying...

Oklahoma patients may be interested in these strategies suggested for nurses for preventing medication errors. The first is to ensure the five rights of medical administration related to transcription. Nurses are required to ensure that correct medication is...

Nurses in Oklahoma who are concerned about giving medication to patients safely can follow what is known as the five rights. These are the things that should be confirmed before medication is administered.The first is the patient's identity. A name, identification...

According to a 2015 study, medical malpractice payments stemming from lawsuits against anesthesiologists have decreased significantly in Oklahoma and nationwide over the past several years. The research, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American...

Misdiagnoses may be more common than many Oklahoma residents realize. The Institute of Medicine has put forth a conservative measure that one in 20 adults have a wrong, missed or delayed diagnosis annually. Over time, this means that at some point in their lives, more...