On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Wednesday, February 15, 2017. Using sterile needles, medicines and intravenous fluids on patients is established standard of care. Keeping anything injected into a patient sterile is vital to preventing life altering and/or threatening illness. Louisiana patients trust medical staff to follow standard practice for their health safety. Recently, a hospital employee in another state allegedly endangered hundreds of patients when he tampered with intravenous medications prior to its administration to patients. Many patients are now filing medical malpractice lawsuits as a result. Last fall, the hospital began notifying approximately 700 patients that they may not have received ordered pain medicine that......
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February 10th, 2017On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, February 10, 2017. When you hear the term “medical malpractice,” do you imagine a doctor operating on the wrong part of the body? Most people are surprised to learn that it’s actually misdiagnoses, not surgical errors, that result in the most malpractice settlements in the Unites States. According to The Washington Post, missed, delayed or incorrect diagnoses accounted for 29 percent of successful malpractice claims over a 25-year period. Misdiagnoses also caused 39 percent of the deaths related to malpractice. Diagnostic errors are dangerous and often life threatening. If you think you were the victim of a diagnostic......
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February 10th, 2017On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, February 10, 2017. The central nervous system is responsible for ensuring the rest of the body’s organ systems function as they should. The brain and the spinal cord make up the CNS, and injuries to either can be devastating because of their control over the entire body. According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, approximately 17,000 new spinal cord injuries occur every year. Such injuries cause serious complications, and they can affect everything from bladder control to respiratory control. Typically, the higher on the spine that the injury occurs, the more devastating the consequences are. For......
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