If a doctor makes a mistake and your brain is denied oxygen, the ramifications set in quickly. It only takes 10 minutes of oxygen deprivation for complete brain death. If there’s a crucial oversight during surgery, such as someone forgetting to monitor your vitals properly,…
Anesthesia errors are more common than you may think. They can cause serious side effects and even put a patient’s life in danger. The way anesthesia is used is a precise science. If the anesthesiologist makes a mistake, a patient could become aware…
Most everyone has had a doctor at some point whom they didn’t like. Sometimes patients don’t particularly respect their doctor’s opinion. Maybe they feel that their doctor doesn’t treat them with respect. Their personality might just rub a patient the wrong way. Any…
The technology utilized after, during and even before modern surgeries is often mind-boggling. There are robotic systems that can do the entire operation on their own and imaging tests that can allow doctors to pinpoint the location of a tumor. One of the…