What happens when a doctor orders an MRI or CT scan and cancels it before it’s done?
A canceled MRI left a lumbar surgery patient with permanent injuries
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Surgery
What is an incidental durotomy and is it medical malpractice?
Damage to the dura mater of the spinal cord or nerve roots increases patient risks for some serious conditions, requiring close monitoring
What is respiratory acidosis and how can it kill a patient after surgery?
When a death certificate or autopsy says the cause of death was heart-related, there may be more to the story
Surgeon operates on wrong kidney, woman faces lifelong dialysis
Surgeons, nurses, and other OR providers are required to verify the correct patient and surgical site before starting an operation
FDA cautions that robotic surgery is unproven and potentially dangerous for cancer surgeries
For some surgeries, robotically-assisted surgery may decrease patient survival rates
Waco, Texas surgeon orders wrong radiology study, woman dies from gastric perforation and sepsis
Doctors and surgeons should treat patients, not computer screens
Hiatal hernia surgery leads to woman's death
Surgeons have to consider all potential causes when there are problems after an operation
Two reasons why a headache is a red flag symptom after lumbosacral spine surgery
Lumbar or sacral spine surgery places patients at a risk for hemorrhagic stroke, even more so if the surgeon punctured the dura
Painter Law Firm files medical malpractice lawsuit against Woodlands plastic surgeon Thomas P. McHugh, M.D.
Medical expert: Dr. McHugh used wrong-size implants, caused nerve damage
Plastic surgery risks, deaths, and medical malpractice
Learn the things you can do to avoid being the next victim of a botched cosmetic surgery