There is a two-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice lawsuits in Allentown and other Pennsylvania cities and towns. According to this statute, an individual has two years to submit a lawsuit for financial compensation in a medical malpractice case. However, there are exceptions to this statute that must be considered. At Soloff & Zervanos, […]
Hospitals have been through a lot since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most prominent issues currently being faced in the healthcare industry is the nursing shortage and subsequent burnout of remaining hospital staff. While the issue is often taken at face value, the actual consequences of the phenomenon are much more […]
From March until July 2020, statistics show a significant drop in cancer screenings being carried out across the USA. In addition to those being screened, there was also a substantial drop in the number of patients receiving treatment, surgery, and visits to consultants. Oncology across the world was disrupted as a result of the coronavirus […]
Doctors and other medical professionals are assumed to be the experts when it comes to injuries and illnesses and prescribing the medications that we may need in order to heal. Most of us only have a very basic understanding of what a particular medication may do and we rely on the expertise of medical professionals […]
Doctors are skilled at asking questions and pulling vital information out of their patients to ensure accurate diagnoses — at least, most doctors are. Sometimes doctors negligently fail to spend sufficient time with their patients and they don’t ask the questions to fully analyze their patients’ health situations. This can result in serious injuries and […]
Medical malpractice comes in many forms in the United States. People sometimes may get injured after a surgery, but they don’t know the real reason for their suffering because the doctor decided to keep this terrifying surgical error a secret. Or, people may die in a hospital after being given the wrong amounts of medication […]
Imagine you go to the hospital for a routine hernia surgery, but you wake up to the horror of being seriously injured. Something went wrong during the surgery, and now you need more costly operations to correct the problem. It’s clear that your surgeon made several errors on the operating table as a direct result […]
Your surgical error case may have happened something like this: You went to the hospital to receive what you thought was a routine hernia surgery. Your surgeon said that everything went according to plan and you may feel a little bit of pain for a few days as you continued to heal. After you went […]
Numerous instances of medical malpractice happen in Pennsylvania and throughout the nation, most likely on a daily basis, but the vast majority of these malpractice events remain unexplored. In a lot of the cases, they go unexplored because nobody suffered serious injury. When a patient doesn’t get hurt, the patient won’t have a claim. Imagine […]
Naturopathic medicine – which includes a number of alternative sub-practices as alternatives to conventional medical practice – has been around for a long time. It is only in recent times that the United States has begun to recognize this practice as a legitimate health care option, and arguments are ongoing regarding the validity of naturopathic […]