Oklahoma City Legal Issues Blog

Many people are quite shocked to hear stories about botched surgeries. While surgeries are usually safe and successful, mistakes do sometimes occur, either due to surgeon error or miscommunication. Wrong-site surgery is a term for a surgery that occurs in the wrong part of the body. Wrong-site surgeries are most often a case of a surgery occurring on the wrong side of the body — on the wrong knee or the wrong breast, for example. Very rarely, a patient may be subjected to a surgery that they did not require because of mistaken identity.

If you or a loved one has been a victim of wrong-site surgery, you will likely be able to claim damages. You can do this by showing that negligence was present and by filing a medical malpractice claim. The following are some causes of wrong-site surgery that could constitute medical malpractice.

Workplace discrimination can have a variety of impacts on your career. It could mean that you never get an interview or that you get passed over for a job, which goes to a less qualified candidate. It could mean that you get ignored for a promotion that you deserve or that they unfairly cut your pay. It could just mean that you do not get the same treatment as the other employees, even though your employer allows you to keep working there, and it is clear to you that they consider you to be less important and less valuable when compared to those other workers.

No matter what discrimination looks like, it could violate your rights. It's a rough situation to face, both practically and emotionally. It can change your career forever.

If you are like most people in Oklahoma City, you work hard to make a living. You probably work overtime to earn your paycheck and help someone else build a successful business. While you put in endless hours toiling away, your boss is probably the one who makes the majority of the money and pays you only a small percentage of it every week.

While this is normally how things work, there are cases where an employer takes liberties when it comes to paying the employees. For instance, an employer might refuse to pay overtime, ask you to work off the clock or simply not pay you the rate you originally agreed to when you were hired.

No one wants to get a serious illness. But if you are suffering from symptoms that are affecting your ability to work or enjoy everyday life, you want an answer to what might be wrong with you.

Unfortunately, an estimated 10-20% of people will receive a medical misdiagnosis when they are seen by a doctor. And misdiagnosis leads to about 10% of hospital deaths, according to the Journal of American Medical Association.