Painter Law Firm

Your local Texas hospital might not be so local after all

Our alphabetical listing shows who owns every hospital in Texas, and where the owners are located

Patient falls in hospitals and nursing facilities cause serious injuries and deaths

Thousands of patients fall in hospitals each year and 30-50% of these falls injure patients

Four ways to uncover a harmful mistake or error by your doctor or hospital

Harvard study shows that many doctors will not tell patients when there has been a significant medical error

Four tips to help prevent botched IV attempts and IV infections

Avoid serious IV complications by paying attention to these important factors

Denials, deflections, and cover-ups: Why some hospitals and doctors repeat the same mistakes and endanger their patients

Study: 77% of doctors will not admit to medical mistakes

Would you trust your life and well-being to a doctor who was at the end of a 24-hour work shift?

In Summer 2017, new rules start that allow hospitals to keep doctors-in-training working for 24 hours straight

Two Texas laws shield hospitals that “hire” incompetent, bad doctors

We sued a neurosurgeon for making our client quadriplegic—the same doctor is now spending life in prison for his conduct in Dallas-area operating rooms

Surgeons with bad attitudes get bad results more often for their patients

When a surgeon has had lots of patient complaints, they have 14 percent more surgical complications and problems

Three ways to improve the accuracy and safety of your medical records

2017 study: There's a big gap gap between what patients tell their doctors and nurses and what is written down in the chart

What to do when the pain won’t go away after a dental or oral surgery

Dental and oral procedures have serious risks, and it can be dangerous to ignore ongoing pain