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A cold, unfamiliar room with silent, serious on-lookers. Desks scattered with file folders, exhibits, and documents. Strange words and phrases that you don’t understand fill your ears. You’re in a courtroom, as the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case. Will this be your future? Your doctor failed you, so you have to take them…

Wondering if a nurse can be sued for malpractice? Or when they can be? We’re about to cover: Most people see doctors as “bosses” and nurses as “assistants”. Doctors diagnose patients and prescribe medicine. Nurses monitor patients and administer medicine. Most of the time, nurses are just following orders. So what happens when a…

It’s all about the money! That’s the top priority for insurance companies representing doctors in birth injury lawsuits. They’ll do anything to avoid paying out birth injury settlements. But for parents, their baby’s health and wellbeing is the priority, not money. However, monetary compensation is what they need and deserve to give their baby…

You did it. You bravely went under the knife. Now you’re hoping the risk will pay off, granting you better health than ever! But what if the opposite happens? Something went wrong during the surgical procedure, and now you’re worse off than you were before. Can you sue? Every surgery or cosmetic surgery, no matter how…

You might say newborns are “blank slates” as far as experience goes. But their brains already have plenty of “hard wiring” at birth. These systems will be fine tuned as they begin to react to the world around them. This is why brain injuries at birth are such a serious concern. Early brain damage…

It’s D-day! We’re talking about delivery-day. It’s time for a mother to go into the hospital with a giant pregnant belly and come out with a newborn. Hopefully, she won’t leave with an additional unwanted stowaway: staph bacteria. This staph bacteria leads to staff infections in babies, and can cause scalded skin syndrome as well….

There’s one place you’ll probably visit at least once in your lifetime. The hospital! Whether it’s for an illness, a couple of stitches, or just to be born, we go to hospitals hoping that the professionals inside will take good care of us. Providing that “good care” is often the responsibility of more than…

Thank science for anesthesia! Without it, we would have to endure the excruciating pain of surgery. Worse still, we would remember every second of it. But anesthesia ensures there are only two things we remember about an operation. One, drifting off to dreamland. Two, waking up thinking, “Wait…it’s already over?” Yes, anesthesia is helpful….

Even before birth, a mother and her child share a bond as tight as a knot. But there’s a different kind of tight knot that no mother wishes to share with her child. We’re talking about umbilical cord knots. These knots are dangerous for a fetus if left untreated. But is it possible to prevent…

They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That’s especially true with cerebral palsy since there is no cure for this debilitating disorder. Unfortunately, you can’t ensure your child has zero chance of getting diagnosed with CP. But every ounce of effort to prevent cerebral palsy adds up! In this…