Medical Malpractice | Grant Law Office - Part 2

Kidneys Can Be Hit Hard by Medical Malpractice

By Grant Law Office on August 6, 2019

Today, Grant Law Office would like to discuss an aspect of medical malpractice we’ve had substantial experience with: kidney failure due to medical professionals’ errors. Two of our recent clients suffered different forms of malpractice, but both ended up with kidney failure and are awaiting transplants.Read more…

When Medicine Goes Wrong

By Grant Law Office on May 14, 2019

Medical mistakes are killing Americans by the thousands. Errors in diagnosis, medication, and surgery, faulty medical devices, and poor sanitation, leading to hospital-acquired infections, are largely to blame. As patients, we need to be aware. As lawyers, we need to fight bad practices and carelessness wherever we find them. Have you been harmed by healthcare? Have a look at the numbers below. Read more…

Miscommunication: the Leading Cause of Medical Malpractice?

By Grant Law Office on April 17, 2019

Research and analysis conducted by CRICO Strategies, which insures all Harvard medical institutions and their affiliates, has shown that miscommunication is a leading cause of medical malpractice claims.Read more…

Georgia Looking at Extreme Flu Season

By Grant Law Office on March 22, 2019

Influenza season is here, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it has arrived with a vengeance. The CDC’s influenza-like-illness (ILI) surveillance tracks cases of the flu, and it has rated 19 states with a “high” level of flu activity—and one of them is Georgia.Read more…

The Real Danger of Impaired Physicians

By Grant Law Office on December 19, 2018

When you put yourself under the care of medical providers, you are putting your health and possibly your life in their hands. If the doctor treating you is impaired—whether due to alcohol, drugs, or mental illness—it is the ultimate betrayal of your trust.Read more…

Hospital-Acquired Sepsis? Call a Lawyer

By Grant Law Office on November 26, 2018

When you are admitted to a hospital, you expect that the treatment you receive there will improve your health. But all too often, this is not the case.

Entrusting your health to a medical facility and its staff is, essentially, entering into a contract—a contract wherein the hospital pledges to treat you with a professional standard of care. If the hospital and its staff are negligent, and you suffer injury, then they have broken their contract with you and can be held liable for medical malpractice.Read more…

Threat of a “Nightmare Superbug” Looms on the Horizon

By Grant Law Office on October 5, 2018

While the term “nightmare superbug” may seem melodramatic, it is how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) described the danger of antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreading throughout the country. Right now, most resistant pathogens are not exceedingly dangerous in and of themselves, but they have the ability to spread resistance to other bacteria and viruses that can be far more deadly.Read more…

Surgical Site Infections: a Real Danger

By Grant Law Office on August 31, 2018

Surgery is intended to cure patients, or alleviate their suffering. Unfortunately, there are incidences where negligence on the part of a medical professional or a hospital can cause a patient’s condition to worsen. One of the ways this can happen is when the site where the procedure was performed becomes infected.Read more…

Atlanta “Dancing Doctor” Has Her License Suspended

By Grant Law Office on July 16, 2018

Imagine having cosmetic surgery, then, to your surprise, seeing footage of that surgery broadcast on YouTube – without your consent. What’s worse, the doctor performing the surgery is dancing and rapping at the same time.

Does this sound like a pitch for a bad sitcom? Well, it isn’t.Read more…

The Trauma of Poor Surgical Positioning

By Grant Law Office on May 2, 2018

When someone undergoes surgery, he is putting his life and his health in the hands of a surgical team. Though we should be able to trust these medical professionals to take the utmost care throughout the procedure, if they fail to do so and a patient suffers injury, they can be held accountable.

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