A Florida naval hospital is facing accusations that it left part of a needle in a woman’s spine when she had a caesarean section there in 2003. The woman now lives in Texas, but at the time, her husband was stationed with the…
When you think about surgery, your mind might go straight to hospitals. However, hospitals are not the only places where you could end up undergoing a surgical procedure. You could be among the many people here in America who get a surgery at…
When a patient in Florida faces a medical malpractice situation, there is a good chance that the problems started at the diagnostic level. According to a report published in March 2018 by a malpractice insurance provider, a third of the medical wrongdoing claims…
Even with advances in digital record-keeping technology, healthcare professionals are liable to make mistakes that in turn lead to medication errors. Medication errors account for more than 250,000 deaths in Florida and the rest of the U.S., according to a 2016 study from…
Doctors in Florida see many patients with skin inflammation and other symptoms of skin disorders. One skin infection, cellulitis, is common, but there is no reliable tool for diagnosing it. Because its symptoms are similar to those of other skin conditions, many cellulitis…
A study that was published in March may change how diabetes patients in Florida, and the doctors who treat them, think about the condition. The authors of the study claim that rather than dividing the condition into type 1 and type 2, having…