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  • April 12, 2022
    Teen Creates Program to Guard Against Surgical Errors
    Surgical errors can have devastating consequences. Pravalika Gayatri Putalapattus, a seventeen-year-old high school student from Virginia, knows this all too well. In 2016, her cousin Sirisha underwent brain surgery in India. The purpose of the surgery was to remove a cancerous tumor. Sadly, a surgical error during the procedure resulted in Sirisha’s death. Pravalika’s initial reaction to her cousin’s passing...
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  • August 18, 2021
    Philadelphia Elementary School Principal Survives After A Medical Device Breaks During His Brain Surgery
    Hospital patients sign consent forms for surgeries, but they do not sign up for unspecified surgical errors. Yet, surgical errors are killing patients regularly throughout the US. As a patient, you trust your doctor to know what they are doing. It can be a nightmare to wake up from surgery to find out your trusted doctors neglected your health. At...
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  • January 28, 2021
    Surgical Errors Cost Families the Lives They Were Meant to Have
    Early one frosty morning, a single mother of two was getting ready for work. While her older daughter made cereal, her one-year-old was ready to go, jumping in her crib and laughing. As she bent down to pick up her youngest, she felt a searing pain in her lower back. Thinking quickly, she made sure the baby was safe in...
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  • Medical Negligence Leading to Common Surgical Errors
    March 22, 2019
    Medical Negligence Leading to Common Surgical Errors
    According to the Pennsylvania Medical Society, there were 107 medical liability cases tried to a jury in Pennsylvania in 2017. This number may seem to indicate that medical malpractice rates are relatively low in Pennsylvania, however, these numbers do not include cases that were settled prior to trial or before a lawsuit was even filed. Philadelphia surgical errors attorneys know...
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  • Surgical errors can often be prevented and must be addressed
    June 15, 2018
    Surgical errors can often be prevented and must be addressed
    Patients who go into the hospital or an outpatient facility for surgery entrust their care to people whom they believe are competent. They don't expect that they will be harmed during the surgery. Unfortunately, people can suffer serious injuries and might even die due to errors in the surgical suite. Many things can go wrong in the operating room. It is...
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  • Could a drug error happen before or after surgery? Absolutely
    May 4, 2018
    Could a drug error happen before or after surgery? Absolutely
    Are you scheduled for surgery in the near future? Are you concerned about the procedure, but realize that it's essential for your health? You're sure to have many questions on your mind, but you also know that you have to put your faith in your medical team in order to get your health back in order. It's easy to believe...
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  • Do you know the most common surgical errors in the United States?
    March 2, 2018
    Do you know the most common surgical errors in the United States?
    Despite massive strides forward in technology and medicine in recent years, mistakes can and do still happen. Electronic medical records are no more successful than paper records at preventing medical errors. Doctors can still miss critical information or do the wrong thing when providing patient care. Sometimes, these mistakes involve medications or manual therapy. Other times, these mistakes happen during...
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