In May, 2016, the British Medical Journal raised serious concerns among patients and physicians when it published a study that found that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. The authors of the study attributed the alarming number of deaths caused by medical errors to a lack of reporting

11 years ago, Jerry Carswell died under mysterious circumstances while being treated for kidney stones at Christus St. Catherine Hospital in Katy, Texas. During the autopsy, a medical examiner removed Carswell’s heart and preserved it as evidence that the man had died of a heart attack. Three years after Carswell’s death, his wife Linda sued

In spite of the fact that hospitals are designed to be dedicated medical care facilities, many patients fare better when they’re able to avoid lengthy hospital stays. Sometimes, patients grow despondent in hospitals when they’re forced to be away from their home and loved ones. In other cases, they can contract dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections like MRSA.

The Journal of Patient Safety estimates that preventable medical errors are responsible for between 200,000 and 400,000 patient deaths every year in American hospitals. Medical malpractice cases can happen anywhere, from small regional clinics to world-renowned research hospitals. If you live in New York, however, there’s good reason to be especially wary of medical negligence.

Even the best hospitals in the world aren’t immune to cases of medical malpractice. Last year, Deborah Craven, a sixty-year-old woman from Milford, Connecticut underwent surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital to have her eighth rib removed due to a precancerous lesion. Unfortunately, her surgeon removed her seventh rib instead. After the procedure, Craven complained

In 1837, an English farmer built a haystack near the boundary of his neighbor’s property. His neighbor warned the farmer on multiple occasions that the haystack was a fire hazard, but the farmer ignored him and left the matter up to chance. Ultimately, the haystack did catch fire and damaged a number of cottages on