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Medical malpractice suit alleges sponge left in patient’s body

May 6th, 2019

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Monday, May 6, 2019. Anyone in Louisiana or elsewhere who is undergoing any sort of surgical procedure expects medical professionals to provide detailed information about any risks involved with the surgery. Patients can then make informed medical decisions and will also know what to expect if they experience any unusual results following the procedure. A woman in another state filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging she was not well informed prior to an operation she underwent in 2015. Recently, a judge set a two-week jury trial for June of next year for the case. In May 2015, the woman went to the hospital to investigate her abdominal pain.......

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Family settles for $3.8 million in medical malpractice lawsuit

April 30th, 2019

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. People requiring care in a hospital emergency room are entitled to receive necessary medical attention, testing and treatment, and no detail regarding socioeconomic status or ethnicity should influence the level of care they receive. Most Louisiana residents would likely agree with this statement. However, a family in another state claims the level of care given to one of their members at a hospital emergency room did not meet the same standard applied to higher-income patients . The family subsequently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, and the facility recently agreed to settle for $3.8 million. Early in 2015, the then 33-year-old woman......

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Attention to detail can prevent surgical errors

April 24th, 2019

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Surgical Errors on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. Bringing a child into the world is often referred to as one of the happiest moments in a woman’s life and after the birth the mother’s first concern is for the health of her child. Fingers and toes are frequently counted to make sure there are 10. When a child’s health is in jeopardy or an illness has been diagnosed, there is little a parent won’t do to help the child in Louisiana. Parents will look to the best physicians available to care for their child. If surgery is required, the possibility of surgical errors will probably be far from a parent’s mind. A......

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