Posts tagged Hospitals

• Hospital ICU's: Wrong Drug...Wrong Dose...Wrong Route

  Dan Frith | March 30, 2009 8:37 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  What am I talking about? A newly released (multinational) report from the British Medical Journal which concludes medication errors are common in intensive care units and may result in permanent...

• Be an Informed Consumer of Health Care

  Dan Frith | January 14, 2009 10:11 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Information is power. I don't know who first said it, but this little 3 word sentence packs a wallop! Nowhere in our lives is information more important than when it comes to making health care...

• Emergency Rooms are Disasters

  Dan Frith | December 10, 2008 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Don't take my word for it...take the word of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). The annual report card by the ACEP gave the nation a D- grade for Americans’ access to...

• Medical Information and Privacy

  Dan Frith | November 12, 2008 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I received a telephone call the other day from a woman whose adult mother was in the hospital. The woman is a single (working) mother and had just been told by her mother's nurse that she (the...

• Virginia Hospital Can't Avoid Responsibility for Emergency Room Problems

  Dan Frith | October 21, 2008 9:57 AM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Danville (VA) Regional Medical Center has been sued for medical negligence. The hospital is being sued in federal court for its Emergency Room staffs failure to provide competent medical care. The...

• Hospitals Can Be Dangerous To Your Health

  Dan Frith | October 07, 2008 9:29 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I know people go to hospitals when they are sick or injured. What scares me is that many patients may become sicker or suffer additional injuries while hospitalized! The 2008 Hospital Professional...

• Hospital Administrators Should Go To Jail For This One

  Dan Frith | May 07, 2008 3:53 PM | 1 CommentRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I could not believe the story when I first read it. Hospital administrators failed to report a sexual assault of a patient to the police. You have got to be kidding me! Police were called to...

• Patient Safety in the Hospital

  Dan Frith | April 24, 2008 6:38 AM | 0 CommentsRoanoke, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I spend a great deal of time researching and reading about the many medical mistakes and errors which occur in the hospital. One of my favorite sites on the Web is maintained by the Joint Commission...