One of the biggest problems facing rural America today is lack of access to healthcare in the area. While not every rural area is experiencing a shortage in doctors and nurses, shortages are much more pronounced in rural areas than urban ones. According to federal...
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Medical Malpractice
Could having separate geriatric emergency rooms improve ER outcomes?
America’s population is aging. People are living longer while Americans have fewer children. There is just a greater proportion of people 65 and over in the population than there ever was before. With that in mind, it may be time to re-think how we provide emergency...
Can I sue a medical resident for malpractice?
Yes. Medical residents can be held accountable for making errors that harm their patients even though they are “technically” not doctors until completing their residency. But statistics show that lawsuits against residents are unusual. One study, published in the...
Staffing shortages remain a significant cause of medical errors
Johns Hopkins University lists hospital medical errors as the third-leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 250,000 deaths annually. It amounts to people dying from seeking care rather than the disease for which they need treatment. While...
What are the causes of common medication errors?
Medical statistics show one out of every 100 hospital patients in the U.S. suffer harm due to medication errors. When studied in relation to drug injuries, these mistakes affect about 30% of patients admitted to health care facilities. While the percentages may appear...
How dangerous is misdiagnosis?
A healthcare misdiagnosis isn’t just a setback. It could cost your life. Correctly labeling and treating a disease early is essential, but some of the biggest leaders in deaths also top the list of diagnostic errors. Vascular disease has historically been one of the...
When is medical care bad for your health?
You place an enormous amount of trust in your doctor when you aren’t well, and that trust has to grow with the severity of your illness. When there are serious stakes on the table, it’s important that doctors are doing the right things to make you better. Tens of...
Doctor Fatigue and Medical Malpractice | Galligan Law
Doctor Fatigue | Galligan Law Doctor Fatigue Patients aren’t the only ones suffering from decision fatigue. Believe it or not, physicians suffer from fatigue just like anyone else. According to a study, as the day passed on, doctors became more fatigued, which...
What You Need to Know About Iowa Birth Injuries
As personal injury attorneys at Galligan Law, we have seen many types of cases where people have suffered wrongly due to the negligence of another. We most often deal with medical malpractice cases. Medical malpractice and Iowa birth injuries cases can be hard to...
Iowa COVID-19 Civil Immunity for Nursing Homes & Providers
How the Iowa COVID-19 Civil Immunity Legislation Affects Medical Malpractice and Nursing Home Abuse Cases For the purposes of this article, any mention of “immunity” will refer to civil immunity granted by the state and not immunity to the disease COVID-19....