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The Wahlquist Law Firm is committed to helping those injured at the hands of negligent doctors and hospitals.
In Utah alone, conservative estimates peg the number of medical “misadventures” in hospitals at around 1,000 every year. And that frightening figure only covers obvious errors (retained surgical objects, wrong-site surgeries and miss-filled prescriptions) and not the many other more subtle injuries that occur in hospitals, clinics, urgent care centers and physician’s offices all over Utah.
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Birth Injuries |
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The negligence of obstetricians, mid-wives, and nurses can cause premature deliveries, injuries to the mother, birth injuries or fetal death.
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Delayed Diagnosis |
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Doctors sometimes ignore patients’ symptoms, like a lump in the breast, a persistent cough, or pain that just won’t go away. When delays in diagnosis and treatment result in more serious injury or additional treatment, it is medical malpractice.
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Medication Errors |
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Medication errors occur in hospital one out of every five times a dose is given. This results in over 1.3 million patients being injured each year and 7,000 more dying needlessly.
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Surgical Errors |
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A recent study showed that 12% of hospital deaths are related to adverse surgical events, with over half of these being preventable.
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Retained Objects |
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When a patient has surgery, nurses are responsible for counting everything that goes into a patient to make sure it all comes back out.
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Nursing Errors |
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Hospital administrators in Utah describe the nursing shortage in the state as “acute.” This poor nursing-to-patient ratio results in overworked and often under-trained nurses.
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Nursing Home Neglect |
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Families invest lots of money in nursing homes and rehabilitation centers because they believe their loved ones will receive excellent care. Unfortunately, nursing care is often at its worse in the facilities and doctors rarely visit the sick patients.
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Hospital Neglect |
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Over 250,000 people are discharged from Utah hospitals every year. Unfortunately, some hospitals are ill-equipped to handle this kind of patient traffic and irregularities arise due to sheer over-crowdedness.
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Medical Products |
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Safe medical products save millions of lives every day. However, some products are used improperly, and others are rushed into the market before they have been properly tested.
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Wrongful Death |
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When a loved one dies because of someone’s negligence, that is a wrongful death. The heirs of that person, including spouses, children, and parents, are entitled to be compensated for the loss of love, companionship and financial support.
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