Indianapolis Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Law Blog

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...