Hospital Patients
Hospitals Can Be Sued for Battery When Patients Say ‘Stop’
By Ayla Ellison, Beckers Hospital Review, February 14th, 2020. A patient who asks a clinician to stop a procedure and it’s feasible to do so can sue for battery if medical staff continue with the treatment,… Read More
Low-rated US hospitals are deadlier due to mistakes, botched surgery, infections
By Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY, May 15, 2019. Patients’ risk of dying from medical mistakes, deadly infections and safety lapses have gotten much worse at the lowest ranked U.S. hospitals, underscoring Americans’ need to check… Read More
Heart Valve Infection Risk on the Rise in Hospitals
By John Commins, Healthleaders Media, September 30, 2019. New infection sources have emerged for people with heart disease, and defective or artificial heart valves. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Rutgers Robert… Read More
Hospitals Are Producing an ‘Epidemic of Immobility’ in Elderly Patients
By Melissa Bailey, The Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2019. Dorothy Twigg was living on her own, cooking and walking without help until a dizzy spell landed her in the emergency room. She spent three days… Read More
Nurses at New Jersey Hospital Gave Benadryl to Patients to Make Them Sleep, Lighten Workload
By Madeline Farber | Fox News, Oct. 11, 2019. A nurse is suing Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J., claiming she was retaliated against after reporting that some of her colleagues working the night shift gave… Read More
Pelvic Exams Being Performed on Sedated Hospital Patients without Consent
By Misha Valencia, Healthline. Aug. 30, 2019. Under any other circumstances, it would be a crime. So why is this the exception? When Ashley Weitz went to the emergency room at a local hospital in… Read More
Majority of U.S. Hospitals Not Meeting Surgical Safety Standards
By Judith Graham, KHN News. The Leapfrog Group, an independent national health care watchdog organization, today released Safety In Numbers: The Leapfrog Group’s Report on High-Risk Surgeries Performed at American Hospitals. The report analyzes eight high-risk procedures to… Read More
Going into hospital far riskier than flying: World Health Organization
By Stephanie Nebehay, for Health News. Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said… Read More
Hidden Public Health Threat In Hospitals Killing 162,000 Annually
Hospital Infections and Drug Resistant Germs – A Public Health Threat Cloaked in a Climate of Secrecy In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually and recent estimates from researchers at Washington… Read More