Medical safety analysts invest significant time in reviewing adverse patient outcome data. They rely on their analysis to devise strategies that doctors can use to minimize the chances of a patient unnecessarily suffering harm. These safety analysts came up with the...

Medication and prescription drug mistakes can be easy to overlook at first. They might cause your treatment not to work. You could have an allergic reaction that no one can explain. Sometimes, however, prescription mistakes can have catastrophic consequences for...

Do you assume that medical mistakes happen rather infrequently and that most doctors tend to do a good job during most of their cases? If so, you’re definitely not alone. Most people do think of major medical errors -- especially fatal ones -- as infrequent events....

It’s easy to believe that your pharmacist will do everything by the books, but this line of thinking could have a negative effect on your health and well-being. Prescription drug errors come in many forms, including the following: Filling the wrong prescription: You...

Medical professionals train so that they can easily and accurately insert a needle into someone's vein to draw blood or give a drug without damaging the nearby tissue. Unfortunately, not all medical workers are as skilled as they ought to be when it comes to...

Opiate painkillers have been around for over a century, although their cousins, synthetic opioid painkillers, are newer medications. Both of these families of drugs offer substantial pain management for those with severe or chronic pain. Unfortunately, they can also...

When you go through any kind of operation, you’re going to need time to recover. Most people have some expected side effects from them, too. Pain and swelling, for example, make perfect sense after you’re operated on. There are times when those complications don’t...

The wrong diagnosis can be a significant problem for a patient in one of two ways. First, the patient may end up getting the wrong kind of treatment, taking medications that they don’t need or that don’t treat the illness. Second, they could go without treatment when...

There’s no question that the cost of health care in the United States is far higher than in other developed nations, and somehow still produces worse outcomes. And although there are competing theories for why health care is so expensive, some claim that it is due to...

If you’ve got any kind of health problems you’ve probably noticed a big shift in medical care toward “virtual” visits, or telemedicine. While video visits are convenient for both patients and providers, they aren’t always the best when it comes to delivering patient...