Today, scores of California residents work from home and engage in Zoom calls. Sometimes, people take Zoom conference calls at hotels and elsewhere. While helpful in many ways, spending excessive amounts of time on videoconferences may come with unforeseen...
California homes can come with elaborate features that help to enhance the lives of the homeowners. Unfortunately, some of these features may be considered an attractive nuisance and open the homeowner up to liability when an accident occurs. As a homeowner, it's...
When you get medications in California, you expect that they will be the right type and the correct dosage. However, errors can occur regarding medications, and those errors could result in significant illness or even death. Before taking any medication, you should...
Skin cancer can be deadly. California residents have heard all the messaging about covering up and using sunscreen. But even among people who take precautions, skin cancers can occur. In fact, the rates of melanoma have been going up for three decades. Increasingly,...
Worried about medication errors in your prescription? There are some common mistakes that occur due to errors in dispensing; doctors and pharmacists can prevent them. Residents of San Diego and other areas of California will want to know more about what is being done...
Throughout our lives, most of us will have appointments with a number of medical professionals to treat health concerns. Because physicians, nurses, and pharmacists in California, and around the world, are human, they will make mistakes sometimes, and your medical...
California residents understand that making mistakes is common to all humans. But when a doctor acts in error, life-altering consequences become possible for a patient. Patients may become better able to avoid the dangers of these mistakes if they understand when they...
Lung cancer and chest infections like pneumonia can present with similar symptoms, but there are some key differences between the two. An experienced physician in California should be able to recognize these symptoms and order more testing. However, this is not always...
Efforts have been underway in California to help support the Fairness for Injured Patients Act. This act is intended to replace one that was passed back in 1975 regarding medical errors. This new endorsement was made after a patient died of a treatable medical...
A 2019 study published in a peer-reviewed medical journal suggests that as many as 80,000 people die in California and around the country each year because their doctors fail to spot a serious disease. Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine came to this sobering...
