Sentences with phrase «patients die as a result»

The most serious side effects were neutropenic fever and neuropathy; one patient died as a result of treatment.

However, despite therapy, most patients die as a result of the cancer spreading to other parts of their body.

Medical malpractice that doesn't result in a patient's death can lead to a lawsuit on its own merit, but a medical malpractice situation in which the patient dies as a result of misdiagnosis, surgical error, or treatment error is sure to require a call to a Delaware wrongful death attorney.

Meyer, who has been a medical malpractice lawyer for 30 years and has won some of the state's biggest judgments in such suits, said he has never encountered a case of a patient dying as a result of a fall from an operating table.

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There can be little doubt that some patients have not in fact been dying at all when they were put on the LCP and that they have then been starved and dehydrated to death as a result.

The Bible teaches us that Jesus not does not want Wall Street investors getting rich through the suffering of others (a / k / a drug company stocks)-- how many people suffer physically or even die from drugs that should have never been approved for use — but instead are dispensed — to the joy of investors — only to have patients suffer as a result.

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

«Tigers» is based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman, Syed Aamir Raza, who took on the corporate giant after realising that babies were dying as a result of his work to pressure doctors to promote the formula to their patients.

Mr Sola Fasure, media aide to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola, said in a statement issued in Osogbo that a patient who died at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile - Ife, as a result of the fever, was not from the state.

Three patients from eastern China developed severe pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome and died as a result.

Seven patients developed invasive infections, but none died directly as a result of a C. auris infection.

For most patients — including actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week as a result of this aggressive malignancy — abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice are the disease's first indicators, and their onset usually occurs after the cancer has metastasized, erasing any possible benefit of surgery.

Yarmouk Hospital has since received new desks and chairs, but patients reportedly continue to die as a result of medication shortages.

These added patients, who did not receive interferon, more than doubled their risk of dying as a result of not being treated with the drug.

Data are not always collected and analysed in ways that allow learning; poor practices and mistakes go undetected; and, in the English - speaking world alone, tens of thousands of patients die each year as a direct result of medical errors.

In 2004 four US patients contracted clinical rabies and died as a result of a single donor whose death was not recognized as rabies.

Next — Be Patient No flea control magically kills the fleas in your house without jumping on your pet SO you will see fleas on your pet until they all hatch out (which could take weeks to months if you don't treat your environment), get on your pet and ultimately die as a result of your pet's flea control.

$ 725,000 for the family of a patient who died as a result of the misdiagnosis of coronary disease as acid reflux.

Non-profit advocacy groups say that while hospitals are typically safe places for patients, there have been a number of incidents in New England in which patients have been seriously injured or died as a result of serious falls (mostly from beds) and burns due to exposure to flammable material.

• Defense verdict for a family practice doctor in a wrongful death medical malpractice case in Alabama, where the patient's widow alleged that her husband died as a result of the doctor's prescription of a hormone treatment in combination with a weight loss medication.

HealthGrades, the nation's leading healthcare rating organization, found that Medicare patients who experienced a patient - safety incident had a one - in - five chance of dying as a result.

Family members of patients who have died as a result of taking Digitek may be able to file suit for negligent death.

Often, the period when the fault occurred and when death results can take seconds, as in the case of a car accident where a victim dies at the scene, or months, as where a doctor prescribes the wrong medication that over time results in the patients death.

Vermont medical malpractice attorneys John Maley and Chris Maley have a long history of representing individuals in the area of medical malpractice, and regularly represent patients who have been injured, or the families of those who have died as a result of the negligence of medical professionals and healthcare providers — including such complex cases as birth injuries leading to cerebral palsy and other disabilities.

The authors of the 2004 Canadian Adverse Events Study, which examined the incidence of adverse events among hospital patients coast to coast, estimated that between 3,561 and 9,143 patients in Ontario died as a result of nearly 72,000 adverse medical events.