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J.T., a 30-year‐old Chicagoland woman, presented to the Emergency Department at a local Chicago hospital with severe back pain. She was admitted to that hospital under the care of H.A., M.D., a hospitalist employed by United Elite Hospitalists, LLC. While an inpatient and under Dr. H.A.’s care, J.T. developed saddle anesthesia and urinary retention….

When you go to a hospital, you expect to receive the best care possible. However, depending on the exact hospital you go to, you could face a greater risk of suffering from medical malpractice.  The Leapfrog Group recently released its finding of potentially dangerous hospitals in the Chicago area. The study found that five hospitals…

In an unusual case of medical negligence by a hospital-owned urgent care center, an Idaho man suffered a catastrophic spinal injury due to medical negligence. The malpractice incident by a local urgent care center’s medical providers and their failure to follow protocol resulted in the man’s paralysis from the waist down. People who have…

When people have a medical emergency, they would expect an ambulance to take them to the nearest hospital for treatment. However, in the biggest cities in the country, including Chicago, that does not always happen. There is a practice hospitals implement called ambulance diversion. It occurs when a hospital is at capacity, and people…

After surgery, most people expect their bodies to be clear of the problem that triggered the need for surgery. However, when one problem goes away, another may develop when a surgeon leaves behind a foreign object inside the patient’s body. This is what happened to one Illinois woman when she discovered she had a piece…

When doctors perform surgery, the goal is to fix or repair organs. Occasionally, a transplant is necessary, and surgeons take great care to ensure no unhealthy foreign substances go into the body. However, it is actually quite common for surgeons to leave behind medical tools, particularly surgical sponges, inside patients’ bodies.  One Illinois man discovered…

As experts have long argued, communication is a key factor in providing proper medical care. When provider communication breaks down, medical errors ensue, causing injury, and even death. The advent and increasingly widespread use of electronic health records by providers in Illinois and nationwide has a great potential to improve communication and record-keeping, with a…

In a recently reported wrongful death case, one of America’s largest kidney dialysis clinics, DaVita, Inc., was found liable for compensatory and punitive damages arising out of the wrongful deaths of patients who suffered fatal cardiac arrests or ischemic strokes after undergoing dialysis with GranuFlo. DaVita used that dialysis solution which has an increased…

One aspect of medical negligence and malpractice involves substance abuse. With the nation trying to recover from the grips of an opioid crisis, many people in Chicago do not realize some of the victims could be the very people they trust for medical care. Doctors, nurses and other health care professionals have high-stress job…

You, like many patients in the Chicago area, trust doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals to keep you healthy. When you have ailments or medical conditions that require treatment, prescription meds are one of many medical treatment options that can help you recover and maintain your standard of living. Many people use…