Personal Injury Law

Nursing Shortages Can Kill You

By JimReed

One of the things I have learned in my 20+ years of handling medical malpractice cases in New York and Pennsylvania is that it is absolutely critical that patients (and their families) must be active advocates for their own care.  What I mean be this is you can NOT safely assume that your doctors/nurses are necessarily providing appropriate care or that they are fully familar with your medical history.  But please don’t get me wrong– I truly respect doctors/nurses/medical providers– most (sadly not all) are intelligent, hard-working people who truly want to provide good medical care.  The problem is that all too often the medical “system” dooms these people to failure because they are over-worked, under-staffed and sometimes poorly trained.

Below is a great article from Bottom Line’s Daily Health News that got me to thinking about this issue.  My thanks to the quoted source for the article, Tom Sharon, for emailing it to me as part of his weekly email discussions of health care issues.  Tom, who is a Registered Nurse himself,  gives many great tips for protecting yourself and your loved ones from sub-standard medical care.  This really should be required reading for all of us who care about getting the best medical treatment possible.
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Full post as published by New York Injury Law Blog on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).