Medical Malpractice
| Nursing Home Abuse |
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| With advances in medical technology and health care in general, more people are living longer and longer. In fact, Americans over the age of 85 is the fast growing segment of the country's population. As the aging population increases, so does the number of people receiving long-term care in nursing homes. More... |
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| Use of Binding Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Patient Contracts |
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| Use of Binding Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Patient Contracts More... |
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| Malpractice Liability of Sports Medical Care Providers |
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| Children and young adults are playing a large variety of sports in ever-increasing numbers. As the number of participants increases, so does the occurrence of sports-related injuries and deaths resulting in more medical malpractice actions against team physicians and sports trainers. More... |
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| Psychiatric Malpractice |
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| Psychiatric Malpractice More... |
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| Malpractice in Cesarean Sections |
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| Generally, a physician delivers a fetus through an abdominal and uterine incision when further delay in delivery might compromise the health of either the fetus or the mother. The rate of cesarean deliveries in the United States is increasing at a remarkable rate, and the reasons for this increase include the older age of women having children, the use of electronic fetal monitoring, a decrease in the use of forceps, and an increase in repeat cesarean sections and breech deliveries. More... |
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