The Healthcare-Malpractice
Journal

A new study - the first of its kind - reviewed the medical literature on patient's expectations of the benefits and harms of medical treatments, with surprising results. Healthcare- malpractice.com discuss this study and how it reflects patient safety in the United States.

The study, Patients' Expectations of the Benefits and Harms...

Forget Obamacare. The real villains in the American health care system are greedy hospitals and the politicians who protect them.

Five years ago this week, Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, and we’ve been debating it ever since. Like many Americans, I oppose Obamacare, and I think we ought...

Why "Choosing Wisely" is wrong

Many doctors believe that following the standard of care in treating patients is ironclad protection against a lawsuit for medical malpractice. Not so, as a recent Medscape article by an emergency physician and attorney pointed out.

"Although guidelines may help guide diagnosis and treatment of disease, their use...

The top five reasons hospitals and doctors get sued.

Another mistake from poor medical coordination.  A shocking and unneccessary death.  here are the facts:
This case involves an elderly female patient with atrial fibrillation who was admitted to a skilled nursing facility. Diagnoses on admission were diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and hypertension. Due to the patient’s atrial fibrillation, Coumadin was administered and...