{"id":405,"date":"2015-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/listening-may-be-effective-in-preventing-medical-errors\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:07","slug":"listening-may-be-effective-in-preventing-medical-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/listening-may-be-effective-in-preventing-medical-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening may be effective in preventing medical errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have written a number of times about how physicians and medical staff have a duty to use reasonable care while tending to patients they are assigned to. Indeed, the main impetus behind medical malpractice cases is the failure to use such care (i.e. acting as a physician with similar experience would in a given situation), but often malpractice cases may start even before this.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robertszczerba\/2015\/01\/19\/consumer-reports-demanding-respect-from-doctors-may-save-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Reports<\/a> study, the lack of respect a patient may receive from hospital staff may lead to medical errors. For instance, certain pains and complaints of discomfort may be dismissed as a patient simply whining; or a doctor may not carefully listen to a patient\u2019s concerns when he or she speaks up.<\/p>\n<p>Among their many findings, researchers learned that patients who believed that they rarely received respect were more than twice as likely to experience a \u201cpreventable medical error\u201d compared to those who received respect. Further, a quarter of the patients surveyed indicated that they were not always treated as adults with regard to their own care and a third of those surveyed said that medical personnel did not listen to their wishes without interrupting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/listening-may-be-effective-in-preventing-medical-errors\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Listening may be effective in preventing medical errors\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have written a number of times about how physicians and medical staff have a duty to use reasonable care while tending to patients they are assigned to. Indeed, the main impetus behind medical malpractice cases is the failure to use such care (i.e. acting as a physician with similar experience would in a given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","tag-hospital-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Listening may be effective in preventing medical errors &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 26, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Listening may be effective in preventing medical errors - Hospital Negligence - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/listening-may-be-effective-in-preventing-medical-errors\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Listening may be effective in preventing medical errors &#8212; 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