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Medical Malpractice

When patients seek medical care, they place their trust — and often their lives — in the hands of healthcare professionals. When that trust is broken by negligence, the consequences can be permanent, life-altering, and devastating for entire families. Medical malpractice occurs when a doctor, nurse, hospital, or other healthcare provider fails to meet the accepted standard of care, causing preventable harm to a patient. These articles explore the full spectrum of medical negligence — including surgical errors, misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis, medication mistakes, birth injuries, anesthesia errors, and failure to obtain informed consent. Learn how malpractice claims are built, what expert testimony is required, how damages are calculated for lifelong harm, and what steps to take if you believe a medical professional’s negligence injured you or a loved one.

Medical Malpractice

HS: a commonly misdiagnosed skin condition

In the July 2019 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology can be found the results of a survey concerning the diagnosis

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Old TBIs may cause memory loss, not Alzheimer’s

In Iowa and across the U.S., many seniors as well as toddlers experience falls, which lead to traumatic brain injuries. Not a few of these

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Reducing stress could result in less medical errors

Studying how stress impacts a surgeon’s work in the operating room could prevent injuries and deaths related to medical errors. Iowa residents might like to

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Misdiagnosis can cause serious harm – and even death

There are many ways in which a doctor can make a mistake. If in making that error the doctor failed to live up to the

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New sepsis guidelines may not be helpful

According to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, treatment should begin within an hour after symptoms of the condition are spotted. The 60-minute window begins after an

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Reasons for medical malpractice

One of the top causes of medical malpractice lawsuits in Iowa and the rest of the country is misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis. For malpractice claims

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VA pays $950,000 after Iowa surgeon operates in South Carolina

Early this year, the Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to settle a medical lawsuit involving a Des Moines surgeon with an Iowa medical license. According

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Malpractice claims and the challenge of proving causation

Iowa residents are probably aware that filing a medical malpractice claim is not easy. There are requirements to be met, and there is almost always

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Maternity telemedicine in Iowa raises malpractice questions

As of New Year’s Day, Iowa joined many other U.S. states in enacting a parity law for telemedicine. Your private health insurer must now cover

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How improving time outs may prevent wrong-site surgery

Every week, there are anywhere between 40 and 60 wrong-site surgeries that are performed in Iowa and the rest of the U.S. The most frequent

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