Many people in Arizona and throughout the country suffer from Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is often misdiagnosed. Even when the illness itself is correctly diagnosed, co-occurring infections such as Bartonella are often still not diagnosed or treated.
A major issue with Lyme disease is that it is treatable when the infection has not been present in the body for very long.
In Arizona and many other states, if doctors apologize to patients or their family for a medical error, this cannot be used as evidence of liability in a subsequent medical malpractice lawsuit. In some cases, apologies may reduce the likelihood that a person will file a lawsuit.
Some people in Arizona may not know what a hospitalist exactly is. It is a relatively new medical specialty and is similar to being a general practitioner or family doctor, but it involves working in that capacity in a hospital. For the period of time that a person is hospitalized, a hospitalist may act as the primary care physician.
According to a report that has been published in JAMA Pediatrics, a significant number of medical errors are identified by family members. A study, led by a Boston pediatrics researcher, found that about one in 10 parents were able to identify errors with respect to their children that a doctor did not at a hospital’s two pediatric units.
Arizona women who suffer from anxiety might also have heart disease, and in some cases doctors fail to detect it. The two conditions may be linked in some women. Women with anxiety are more likely to also suffer from ischemia, a condition in which there is a reduced blood flow to the heart and therefore less oxygen going to the heart.
