Safety and Health Reporter
- Heart Disease Discussed By Medical Malpractice Lawyer
- Posted on May 18, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Heart disease is an ailment that afflicts millions of Americans. Doctors are well equipped to deal with patients who are at high risk for heart disease. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who are in that broad middle category of either being neither high risk nor low ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Ophthalmologist Medical Malpractice
- Posted on May 17, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Ophthalmologist-Common Eye Problems
Common eye problems that arise in people over 40 are such things as cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma and floaters.
Cataracts are small clumps of protein that form on the lens making it cloudy. This can result in a loss of vision. This vision loss cannot ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Antioxidant Product Liability
- Posted on May 16, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Antioxidant product liability is not exactly the rage these days. There is however a good bit of information floating around about the use of antioxidants and how beneficial they are. More antioxidants however are not necessarily better. The research in fact has shown that how you consume the ...
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Posted in Product Liability
- Hand Injuries Discussed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on May 8, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Hand Injuries
Hand injuries, whether they come in the form of bruises, breaks or cuts, can frequently be tricky. There are a number of surgeons who hold themselves out as hand surgeons. Many of them are cosmetic surgeons who also do hand surgery.
As a general rule you are probably better served ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- How Communication Failure Leads to Medical Malpractice
- Posted on May 1, 2013 by Brien Roche
- A communication failure among health care providers can be devastating to the patient. This is most critical during a hospital stay. In a recent Washington Post article of April 30, 2013 an incident is recounted where a gastroenterologist came in to a patient and reported that the patient had an ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Misdiagnosis Discussed By Medical Malpractice Lawyer
- Posted on April 27, 2013 by Brien Roche
- A research team from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently reported on their analysis of data from the National Practitioner Data Bank maintained by the federal government as to the primary cause of medical malpractice claims. What they found was that misdiagnosis was the most common cause.
In this study, ...
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Posted in Medical Malpractice
- Hospital Safety Discussed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 26, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Hospital safety is a pressing issue especially since more than 180,000 people die every year from hospital errors. Those errors come in a number of different forms.
It is estimated that nearly 6,000 egregious errors occur every month among Medicare patients alone. By egregious errors, it is meant operations on the wrong limb or ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Affordable Medical Care Addressed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 25, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Affordable medical care is an issue for all of us. In particular, it can become an issue for someone who is injured.
Medical costs drive an estimated 60% of personal bankruptcies across the country.
The Affordable Care Act (also called "ObamaCare") mandates that every state set up health care exchanges where people ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Fertilizer Explosions Discussed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 23, 2013 by Brien Roche
- On April 17, 2013 a fertilizer plant in Texas exploded. The fertilizer plant had no sprinklers. It had no fire walls. It had no water deluge system. Safety inspections at the plant were, at best, sporadic.
It so happens that small fertilizer plants across the nation are overseen by a number of ...
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Posted in Personal Injury
- Alcohol Intake Discussed By Personal Injury Lawyer
- Posted on April 11, 2013 by Brien Roche
- Alcohol intake has been a subject of discussion for many years. An article from The Washington Post on April 9, 2013 addresses five (5) things to know about drinking.
Moderate alcohol consumption is typically defined as being two (2) drinks a day for a man and one (1) drink for a ...
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Posted in Auto Accident
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