Right Drug, Wrong Dose? What to Do If You’ve Been Given the Wrong Medication

HuffPost Healthy Living Over 770,000 medication mistakes occur every year, contributing to approximately 7,000 deaths in the United States. And when it comes to medications, some mistakes are … [Read more...]

There Seems to Be a Mistake with My Prescription

What Happens When a Mistake is Made with a Prescription? When patients report medication errors to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) that involve pharmacy dispensing, they are … [Read more...]

Diagnostic Errors: A ‘Moral, Professional and Public Health Imperative’

HuffPost Healthy Living By, Jay Bhatt, M.D. For years, patient safety efforts have focused on mistakes that occur during treatment, from medication errors to post-surgical complications. Since … [Read more...]

As Seen in the Huffington Post – She Was Told That She Was “Too Young For A Mammogram”

My client, Jennifer,* was 28 years old when she went to her gynecologist complaining of a strange, tiny pea-sized lump she felt in her breast.  "It's probably nothing," is what she was told by her … [Read more...]

Womens’ Health Matters: A Journey Revisited

In the early years of my legal career, I represented women who had suffered catastrophic injuries resulting from medical errors such as delays in diagnosis of breast cancer and incorrectly-prescribed … [Read more...]