When Getting Care Becomes Getting Sued
May 5, 2026
You trusted your doctor. You showed up, got treated, and moved on with your life. Then a lawsuit arrived in your mailbox — over a
You trusted your doctor. You showed up, got treated, and moved on with your life. Then a lawsuit arrived in your mailbox — over a
Five cents. That’s all it took to unravel one woman’s health coverage — and land her with thousands in debt. A recent KFF Health News
For middle-aged Americans, the promise of affordable health coverage is quietly unraveling. A recent KFF Health News investigation reveals what many patients already know firsthand:
The promise of Medicaid is straightforward: provide health coverage to those who need it most. A sweeping new federal law is now testing that promise
Taking prescription medication is a necessary part of life for many of us. Often as we age and our health declines we take more and
Picture this scenario: A surgeon convinced a patient to undergo an unnecessary and expensive major surgery even though a small procedure had already proved successful
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there was the “opioid epidemic.” From 1999 to 2019, nearly 500,000 people died from an overdose involving any opioid, including prescription
Osteoporosis is not only a woman’s health issue. Men suffer consequences from it less overall, but when they do the consequences are often more severe.
A new study includes guidelines for hospital stays of health term newborn infants. While such guidelines purport to not define the standard of care for a doctor or hospital in such situations, juries can be persuaded that they should have been followed in a given case.
A lack of consensus about whether to screen men for prostate cancer highlights the difficulty of using guidelines in malpractice cases when there is a significant difference of opinion in the medical community.