Is It Time to Fire Your Doctor
16 Clear Signs You Need to Fire Your Doctor. You can’t always trust the white coat. These are the mistakes that are serious enough to warrant your finding a new doctor STAT. He touched you...
Patient Safety Toolkit
Heart Attack – Cardiac Risk Test
From The Mayo Clinic. This heart disease risk assessment is most accurate for people between ages 20 and 74. For people younger than 20 or older than 74, the presence of two or more cardiovascular risk factors suggests higher risk of...
Hospitals Make Mistakes — Here’s How to Avoid Catastrophe
When tennis star Andy Murray posted a hospital photo to Instagram last week, the pushback was swift. Not for the overshare, but for what some doctors said were medical errors, including misplaced IVs and unshaven...
How to Get Your Doctor to Take You Seriously
Advice from patients, physicians, and advocates on making sure your concerns are heard. By Kate Willsky, for Medium. Around 12 years ago, at age 19, Brittany Bella Graham began experiencing severe lower-back pain and a...
Errors in Your Medical Records Are Dangerous
Mistakes can affect your health care and outcomes. By law, you have the right to correct errors in your medical records. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) ensures that your medical records are...
Diagnostic Errors: How to Detect Them, Prevent Them and What to Do About Them
What To Do If You Feel Like You’ve Been Misdiagnosed By Your Doctor. Each year, 12 million people are misdiagnosed by doctors, according to the National Academy of Medicine, which can lead to further development of potentially...
Becker’s “100 Great Hospitals in America.” 2018 Edition
Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2018 edition of its list of “100 great hospitals in America.” The hospitals included on this list have been recognized nationally for excellence in clinical care, patient outcomes,...
751 Hospitals Hit With Safety Penalties For Patient Injuries – 2018 Data Table
The federal government Thursday lowered a year’s worth of Medicare payments to 751 hospitals to penalize them for having the highest rates of patient injuries. More than half also were punished last year through the...
Must Know Information about Hospital Patient Advocates
If hospitals offer customer service, it is often through a staff person called a patient advocate. This person can be called upon by a patient or his family member when they run into problems that...
Your Local Hospital
Hospital Ratings and Rankings. How to Use The Ratings Systems. U.S. News & World Report tries to help patients find the best hospital within a given specialty that excels at treating the most complicated patients....