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  • February 9, 2021
    New Program to Address Medication Errors
    As we go deeper into the winter season, more and more people are getting sick and seeking hospital care. The covid season has not let up, and hospitals are feeling more burdened. Like any workplace, where there is too much stress, too little staff, and a lot of work, mistakes are bound to happen. Our Philadelphia medication errors attorneys at...
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  • August 17, 2020
    Compounding Medications and Hospital Mistakes
    When most people go to the hospital, whether for an emergency or for a scheduled procedure, they probably do not spend much time thinking about how their medications get to them. However, the hospital prescription medication process is not quite the same as it is when you pick up your prescriptions at the local pharmacy. In some cases, medications will...
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  • May 27, 2020
    Have You Ever Been Given The Wrong Prescription?
    Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. One of the main causes of errors that occur in a medical setting are mistakes made concerning prescription medications. What happens if somebody is given the wrong prescription? Can a doctor or nurse be held responsible? What about a pharmacist?...
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  • December 16, 2019
    Are Most Medical Mistakes Preventable?
    Are Most Medical Mistakes Preventable? Medical mistakes are not something many people think about until the time approaches for them to undergo some sort of medical procedure. However, researchers say that medical errors one of the leading causes of death in this country. At The Weitz Firm, LLC, we are dedicated to helping victims of medical errors secure the compensation...
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  • November 20, 2019
    The Health Care Industry And Medical Mistake Honesty
    If you look for information about how many people are affected each year by medical mistakes, you will find widely different figures. Many health care groups have reasons not to highlight these numbers, but some studies place the number of US medical error deaths in the hundreds of thousands each year. At The Weitz Firm, LLC, our Philadelphia medical malpractice...
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  • May 31, 2019
    Anesthesiologist Reaches For Wrong Drug
    We go to the hospital to get better. We hope that doctors and hospital staff will give us the answers we need to start the healing process. Almost always doctors, nurses, and other medical staff get it right. They tell us what is wrong, and we can begin a plan of action. However, there are times when during that plan...
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  • May 18, 2019
    Are Medication Errors A Criminal Offense?
    Getting sick is no fun. In today’s health care system, getting sick can lead to some expensive bills. Our Philadelphia Medication Error lawyers at The Weitz Firm, LLC know first hand the financial hardship families endure when an unexpected medical issue hits. Around 41% of Americans either have medical bills or are actively paying off some medical debt. That means...
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  • May 4, 2019
    PSA Takes On Medical Errors
    Technology today has changed the way in which we do a lot of activities. For example, we don't stand in line waiting for cash and change anymore. Instead of walking into shopping malls, we sit on our couches and order offline. People even order food online and it gets hand delivered to our door. The digital age has influenced the...
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  • Medical Mistakes Are 3rd Reason For Hospital Fatalities
    February 22, 2019
    Medical Mistakes Are 3rd Reason For Hospital Fatalities
    A film documentary was created to show the startling dangers of medication errors. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in patients. This means that more people are dying from medication errors than they are from respiratory diseases, accidents, strokes, Alzheimer's, diabetes, pneumonia, nephritis, and suicide. The first two are heart disease and cancer. Medical mistakes should not...
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  • Former Nurse Charged With Reckless Homicide
    February 16, 2019
    Former Nurse Charged With Reckless Homicide
    We wanted to bring you an update to a story we brought you a few months ago about a major medical mistake at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The incident happened in December of 2017 when a nurse intended to give a patient, Charlene Murphey, a routine sedative. Instead, the nurse gave the patient vecuronium, a very powerful drug that...
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