{"id":332,"date":"2014-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/medical-malpractice-and-wrong-site-surgery-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:10:00","slug":"medical-malpractice-and-wrong-site-surgery-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/medical-malpractice-and-wrong-site-surgery-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Malpractice and Wrong-Site Surgery Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/firm-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Firm News<\/a> | December 4, 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/medical-malpractice\/\">Medical malpractice<\/a> is often the most emotionally devastating type of personal injury because there is an element of trust involved. Most of us rely on our doctors to preserve our health and prevent us from exposure to avoidable injuries. There are many forms of medical malpractice including patient neglect, misdiagnosis and even prescribing incorrect or inappropriate medicines. Arguably, the worst forms of medical malpractice occurs when a doctor conducts surgery on the wrong patient or in the wrong location on a patient\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2008 quality handbook published by the National Institutes of Health, many doctors were simply unaware of the actual numbers of patients injured by WSS until 1999. That was the year that the Institute of Medicine published a report which catalogued a series of injuries, deaths and near-misses due to surgical errors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/medical-malpractice-and-wrong-site-surgery-mistakes\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Medical Malpractice and Wrong-Site Surgery Mistakes\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm News | December 4, 2014 Medical malpractice is often the most emotionally devastating type of personal injury because there is an element of trust involved. Most of us rely on our doctors to preserve our health and prevent us from exposure to avoidable injuries. There are many forms of medical malpractice including patient neglect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firm-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Medical malpractice and wrong-site surgery mistakes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Medical malpractice is often the most emotionally devastating type of personal injury because there is an element of trust ... 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