Many New York mothers-to-be may be planning to deliver via a cesarean section. A study showed that complications due to anesthesia given in C-sections fell by 25 percent between 2003 and 2012 in New York hospitals. However, non-anesthetic perioperative complications rose by about 50 percent.
New Yorkers who have recently spent time hospitalized may be dismayed to learn that studies have found 200,000 to 400,000 deaths happen annually as a result of preventable errors in hospitals around the country. In addition to the emotional costs to loved ones, medical mistakes are estimated to cost upwards of $15 billion annually in expenses such as patient care and prescription drug services.
New York patients may be interested in a study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, that looked into the rate of recurring malpractice claims against physicians. People implicitly and explicitly trust their doctors on a daily basis, but medical errors can and do sometimes happen. Knowing some of the statistics behind malpractice claims can help patients make a more informed decision about their own well-being.
New York City employs literally thousands of construction workers who work on the municipal construction or repair sites throughout the city. Apart from that, thousands of other construction workers work on various state, private, and commercial construction sites throughout the state. While construction workers involved in scaffolding, digging a trench, or repairing an elevator shaft are constantly at high risk of suffering injuries, the more obvious risks come from the site environments. Accidents like being hit by a hard object, falling down from a ladder, or becoming deaf due to battling sound explosions are pretty common at construction sites. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
All too often, regular maintenance issues like poor lighting, wet floors, unsteady hand rails, or torn carpets cause trip and fall accidents to victims. Surprisingly, even in well-maintained facilities in New York, these accidents can happen to anyone anytime, and some due to personal carelessness like walking without looking at the floor. On public roads or parks, pedestrians or visitors can have trip and fall accidents due to rain, ice, or a potholes, but each and every case may not lead to a personal injury lawsuit. Tip and fall accidents on private or public properties In most cases, a person injured in a trip and fall accident
Thousands of people in New York get injured from slip and fall accidents every year, but every incident does not warrant legal action against the property owner. In fact, even when a property owner has been somewhat negligent in property maintenance, it can be quite difficult to prove that the owner of the property is directly responsible for a slip and fall accident. Moreover, property owners cannot be held responsible for accidents that any reasonable person could have avoided just by being more careful! Generally, here are some common rules of thumb to assess intentional negligence of property owners in a slip and fall related personal injury
Generally, a personal injury lawsuit in New York can go in many different directions, depending on the merits of a particular case, the skill of the attorney, and the availability of strong evidence, but the legal process involved in filing a case and proceeding with the case is the same. In this article, the primary steps of evidence gathering and filing a personal injury case are outlined, which are: Gather medical evidence of personal injury Consult an attorney File initial court papers Find facts during trial (discovery) Motions before trial Trials Collect compensation Appeal against a court verdict In a step-by-step personal injury case, here
Paraplegia is characterized by complete paralysis of the lower half of the human body, along with nonexistent sensory and motor functions. Typically, some error during a spinal-cord surgery or a direct injury on the spinal cord can lead to paraplegia.
When an unborn baby suffers fetal distress inside the mother’s womb, this phenomenon typically indicates that the baby is not getting adequate oxygen supply. The fetal monitoring strip, used by a New York hospital’s medical staff to monitor a baby’s heart, guides the obstetrician and supporting staff when to deliver the baby.
Practicing doctors in New York may be guilty of misdiagnosis every now and then. Many disease conditions such as cancer, lung disorders, tuberculosis, stroke, or acute bacterial infections are hard to diagnose because the symptoms commonly associated with these diseases may also be present in other medical conditions.
