Category: Patient Safety

No human leaves this life unscathed: stubbed toes, broken arms, sports injuries, car accidents, illness, childbirth, cancer—many of the most profound human experiences are rounded out with pain. But humans are resilient, and over time, more and more effective ways to treat pain have been developed. So today, for many people, modern medicine stands between…

When a country faces a pandemic, public health depends upon the quick and effective ability of local health officials and public leaders to follow pandemic prevention standards. These standards are ever evolving, but have been established after years of research. During the last century there have been five influenza outbreaks, alone, and each one has…

Mankind is a long way from winning the fight against viral infection. In fact, it’s arguably a battle we won’t ever win, rather one that we will continue to revisit over and over again as new strains of known viruses arise. In recent decades, several viruses have jumped from animals to humans creating new strains,…

Even before the COVID 19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, telehealth services were evolving and expanding rapidly. An American Well Survey in April of 2019, found that one in five physicians use telehealth to care for patients, and half of those who don’t currently use telehealth say it’s likely or very likely they’ll start…

Here at Miller and Wagner, we work closely with a wide range of medical professionals who help our injured patients. These are the same medical professionals currently working on the front lines during the covid-19 pandemic, and for that we couldn’t be more grateful. Thank you to all the doctors, nurses, and healthcare staff who…

When visiting your physician, there is the basic expectation that you are going to receive the most appropriate and up-to-date treatment for your illness or injury, regardless of who you see and where. You also trust that the physician treating you will treat you in the same way they would treat any other patient suffering…

A surgical site infection (SSI) occurs when pathogens multiply at the site of a surgical incision, which then develops into an infection. SSIs are fairly common, occurring in 2 to 5 percent of all surgeries involving incisions, as many as 500,000 SSIs happen in the United States each year. Rates of infection differ according to…

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. A Johns Hopkins study found more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical mistakes, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Other studies have found the number to be higher than 400,000 deaths…