On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Dec 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
A birth injury affects the mother or her baby during labor, childbirth or the recovery period. While some birth injuries are minor, such as small scratches and bruises, others, such as brain and spinal cord injury, can be permanent or take life. Infection Some...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Getting a cancer diagnosis is a terrible experience, but what may be worse is not getting a cancer diagnosis because your doctor missed the signs and symptoms of your condition. Delaying a cancer diagnosis is a serious problem because curing or treating this disease...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Sep 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
The respect and prestige assigned to their positions may make doctors seem almost superhuman in the eyes of their patients in Albuquerque. In reality, however, those practicing medicine are just like everyone, and are subject to the same professional pressures that...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is frightening to even think about, but doctors make mistakes. And when they make these mistakes, they can be life-changing. These are the types of mistakes that will haunt a person for the rest of their life. Take for example the recent case involving a...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hospitals provide medical care for millions of people in the United States. Patients expect to be taken care of, not put in harm’s way, when they go to the hospital. Unfortunately, patient safety varies greatly depending on the hospital. Every year, hospitals...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Nov 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Doctors have incredibly stressful jobs. Every day, they see patients and need to figure out what is wrong – if anything – and what the best course of action for treatment is. Needless to say, doing this day-in and day-out can lead to a high degree of...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Nov 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
We have handled many, many sepsis cases The worst thing any parent can picture is losing their child to a medical misdiagnosis. For one family though, this is exactly what happened after their 12-year-old daughter died after an urgent care facility misdiagnosed her...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Oct 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
We all like to think that everything will go fine during the delivery of a child. However, things can go wrong. And when they do, it’s important to understand what happened. In this post we are going to focus on shoulder dystocia – a medical complication...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Oct 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Many people think that a heart attack is something that just suddenly happens. One second the person is fine, but the next they are clutching their chest and falling to the floor. This is rarely the case and many people exhibit signs of a heart attack weeks before...
On behalf of Curtis & Co. | Aug 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Basic safety measures taken by hospitals should stop a patient from contracting a hospital-acquired infection. However, the sad truth is that corners are sometimes cut and certain measures are over-looked, leading to unnecessary pain and suffering, physical damage,...
