Kentucky residents may not be aware of what defines informed consent. Informed consent means that a patient is made aware of the consequences and possible complications that may result from medical care they are given. What legally qualifies as informed...
Read More While surgical patients in Kentucky may share national concerns about wrong-site and wrong-person surgeries, statistics from a 2009 study suggest that only one in 112,000 procedures tend to involve these kinds of errors, known as WSPEs, which are also nicknamed...
Read More Kentucky residents who rely on medical devices may be interested in reading about the how a recall of those devices works and what their options include. First, whenever a medical device becomes hazardous to health, defective or both, the responsible...
Read More Car accidents in Kentucky create many costs, the greatest of which is the human life that is lost. According to a nationwide study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 33,561 people were killed in car accidents in 2012. On...
Read More Some Kentucky residents may be interested to know that C.R. Bard Inc. recently agreed to settle more than 500 lawsuits that claim the corporation's vaginal-mesh implants damaged women's bodies. Authorities reported that the agreement marks the first mass settlement reached...
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