Early hospital discharge of newborns creates unnecessary risks
Medical studies find that a good discharge time is 48 hours after birth
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Medical malpractice
Breast injury, necrosis surgical malpractice
Breast procedures can lead to tissue and nipple death when doctors and nurses don't take proper precautions
Dermatology medical malpractice and malignant melanoma
There are more skin cancer diagnoses each year in America than for all other cancers combined
Operating room and surgical fire medical malpractice
Around 600 patients annually are injured by surgical fires in the U.S.
New Texas Supreme Court opinion is favorable to medical malpractice plaintiffs at trial
How the settlement credit and non-economic damages cap are applied have a big impact on a plaintiff's judgment
What needs to happen when doctors and nurses suspect sepsis
When hospitals follow the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines it produces big results
When your medical records leave out information, you can fill in the blanks
Documentation is important in a medical malpractice case, but when information is missing from the records it's not the end of the world
Federal court is an option in some Texas medical malpractice cases
Filing in federal court avoids some of the unreasonable tort reform requirements of Texas law
Nurses play an important role, which is why their medical malpractice can be so harmful
Nursing licensure creates independent duties that nurses owe to their patients
Videos and photos are effective tools to demonstrate medical malpractice injuries
Images and videos quickly contrast what a person was like before negligence versus the present time