On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Oct 3, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
You may have a great deal of confidence in your doctor’s ability to correctly diagnose your medical ailments. Yet diagnostic errors remain one of the biggest problems plaguing America’s healthcare industry. Many of those who suffered due to a misdiagnosis...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Sep 23, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Kidney disease can be difficult for doctors to diagnose. In the early stages, this condition has vague symptoms that patients and doctors mistake for other complaints. Left untreated, however, a person who has kidney disease may eventually develop end-stage kidney...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Sep 15, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Electronic health records (EHRs) are meant to benefit patients and doctors alike. They can keep messy handwriting or smudged ink from creating a miscommunication. Digital record-keeping can help alert doctors about potentially dangerous drug interactions. With all...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Sep 1, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Misdiagnosis is a major problem in contemporary medicine. Clinical judgment failures — doctors’ mistakes, in other words — are among the causes in 85% of these tragedies, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Diagnosis is the beginning of the medical process. Any...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Aug 17, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Do you know what causes more deaths in the U.S. than strokes, Alzheimer’s or diabetes? The answer may surprise you. A recent study found that medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States. Putting your faith in the medical system is...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Aug 11, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
When you go to your doctor with a problem, it feels as though your fate is in their hands. You must trust they will draw on their knowledge to determine appropriate next steps, without faltering or leading you astray. Yet the reality is, doctors frequently get it...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Aug 10, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
When you or a loved one face a complicated health problem, you put your trust in the medical system to quickly and accurately diagnose and treat your condition. What choice do you really have? You may face limits based on where you live in South Florida, your...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Jul 20, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Your health condition requires you to take medication, but experience showed you that you must do your part to prevent medication errors. No matter how much you trust your new doctor or pharmacist, you cannot be too careful. It may help to get a breakdown of how...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Jul 1, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
You depend on your doctor to be able to tell you what is wrong and determine a course of treatment, but doctors, like everyone else, are prone to making mistakes. When physicians fail to diagnose your condition or diagnose it too late, though, the repercussions may...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Jun 22, 2020 | Medical Malpractice
Creatinine is a waste product that normally functioning kidneys excrete from your body through the urine. If damage to the cells of your kidneys occurs suddenly, it can cause high levels of creatinine to build up in your blood. A serum creatinine test involves...
