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Company Creates Tool to Help Medical Staff Read Small Print
Taking medication to recover from an injury or treat a long-term illness is serious business. According to The Washington Post, almost 60 percent of Americans take prescription drugs each year. These medications can be immensely helpful, but they can also be potentially dangerous. If you forget to take pills at a certain time, mix them Continue Reading..<...
Study Finds Many Palliative Care Programs are Understaffed
Palliative care programs are designed to alleviate the stress and struggle of a serious long-term illness for not only the person who is sick, but their close relatives as well. While a palliative care program can the best environment in which to nurse an extremely sick person back to health or at least keep them Continue Reading..
New York Remains Free of Medical Malpractice Damage Caps
New York remains free of medical malpractice damage caps. Trust Silberstein & Miklos, P.C. for compassionate, expert legal support—contact us today.
Bring a Notebook to Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
Exam rooms can be stressful places for patients. This is especially true in cases where patients are undergoing long-term treatments for chronic illnesses or serious injuries. For these patients, visits to the exam room are valuable opportunities to discuss their progress with their doctors and gain insight into what they can do to improve their Continue Reading..
Doctors Suggest Cutting Medication to Reduce Hospital Deaths
Preventable errors have been a hot topic of discussion in the medical community recently. Insurance companies, legislators and medical professionals have suggested a variety of potential solutions to the alarming rate of medical errors in America – from treating more patients at home to establishing harsher penalties for doctors who commit dangerous errors. Now, in Continue Reading
Can 3D-Printed Organ Replicas Help Train Better Surgeons?
Before a student can become a surgeon, they typically spend months conducting mock surgeries on human cadavers. Unfortunately, surgical students aren’t guaranteed to see specific conditions or diseases during the course of their cadaver studies. Rather, it’s the luck of the draw. Medical cadavers are also in relatively short supply. In some cases, students have Continue Reading...