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This year, in 2011, our firm settled numerous cases that we cannot tell you about.
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That is lawyer speak for:
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Most people have heard of a “coronary angioplasty”, or just angioplasty for short. Maybe you or someone in your family or a neighbor has submitted to the procedure. An angioplasty is a medical procedure used to open blocked or narrowed coronary (heart) arteries, to to improve blood flow to the heart muscle. But, have you heard the latest news about this procedure?
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In my city we have two hospitals: Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center, a HCA facility.
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An Article in B4 of Today’s Wall Street Journal starts off by saying that various nursing home companies are aiming to cut expenses “to help offset the impact of a severe Medicare reimbursement cut coming in two months.”
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Yes, although it seems these two things are very different….they are connected.
How? Because your chances of dying in a hospital due to medical negligence is greater than your chance of going down in a plane crash.
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Sadly, much of the time families come to us when it is too late.
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No…it is not a list of the most popular adult beverages.
In 1991, a panel of doctors and clinicians with expertise in geriatrics researched the effects of different drugs on senior citizens. Their research resulted in the creation of the Beers List. A list of medications that are generally considered inappropriate when given to elderly people. For a wide variety of individual reasons, the medications listed tend to cause side effects in the elderly due to the physiologic changes of aging.
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My question is “why?”
According to the findings of a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA), elderly African Americans face a greater risk of suffering bedsores or pressure ulcers as a result of nursing home neglect.
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I heard a wonderful but not surprising story on NPR this morning -
CAREGIVING IS TOUGH WORK and worth over $450,000,000 a year.