On the links below, patients and their families will find important patient safety topics, arranged alphabetically, including our tips for avoiding the kind of problems that our clients have experienced. Readers also should check out the index of our monthly “Better Health Care” newsletter for more topics and safety and health care tips.
- Abandonment: How to Prevent
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers – Same-Day Surgery
- Anesthesia: What Patients Need To Know
- Angioplasty
- Aortic Aneurysm: Simple Screening Test
- Back Surgery / Spine Surgery
- Bile Duct Injury: Questions Immediately After
- Blood Clots: Preventing Death
- Biopsies and Pathology Specimens
- Breast Cancer: Questions Before Any Treatment
- Colon Cancer Screening
- Communication Errors: How To Prevent
- Diabetes and Blindness: Prevention
- Diabetes and Kidney Disease: Essential Drugs
- Emergency Room Care: One Last Question
- Eye Emergencies
- Falls In Hospitals: Reducing The Risk
- Heart Attack Survival
- Hospitals: Avoiding Injury
- Hospital Monitor Equipment: How To Listen
- Infection: Avoiding it in the Hospital
- Liposuction
- Medications: Safe and Healthy Use
- Misdiagnosis: Questions to Ask
- Numb Legs After Surgery: What To Do
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention
- Primary Care Doctors: Finding a Top One
- Radiation Therapy
- Radiological Tests: Questions Up Front
- Skin Cancer Screening
- Stroke Survival
- Surgeons: Finding the Right One
- Surgery: Avoiding Mixups (Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure, Wrong Patient)
- Surgery: Exploring Your Options
- Surgery: Questions to Ask Up Front about the Hospital Team
- Vision: Sudden Changes that Might Spell Emergency
- Weight Loss Surgery: Picking the Best Place
Consult with an Experienced Malpractice Attorney
If you believe you or a family member has been seriously injured from medical malpractice, medical error, or neglect by a doctor, hospital, nurse, clinic, nursing home or other health care provider, you may want to click here to contact an experienced medical malpractice attorney for a free evaluation of your case. You can also email us at info@patrickmalonelaw.com or call us at 202-742-1500 or 888-625-6635 toll-free. We will respond within 24 hours. There is no charge for our initial consultation.
