On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Friday, December 5, 2014. Many are already acquainted with the legal concept of medical malpractice, which occurs when a health care professional such as a doctor, surgeon, pharmacist or other medical professional acts in a negligent manner, and that negligence causes harm to the patient. There exists another cause of action that can be related to acts of medical malpractice, and sometimes appears as a cause of action in a civil lawsuit along with medical malpractice claims: hospital negligence. But hospital negligence is a distinct claim that does not depend on an underlying act of medical malpractice to exist. The idea......
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December 5th, 2014Inaccurate electronic medical records and doctor errors
November 21st, 2014On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Friday, November 21, 2014. Doctor’s offices, hospitals and other health care providers in Louisiana are adapting to the government-imposed transition from traditional paper systems for maintaining patient records to electronic medical records. A recent study has uncovered evidence of mistakes and omissions in electronic records that is causing concern among medical professionals. Investigators reviewing the electronic records of patients following surgery found that only about one-third of the patient charts were free of mistakes or omissions. According to medical professionals who are familiar with electronic record systems, the cause is that the accuracy of the data in the systems depends upon......
read moreMedication errors: how they occur, and how they can affect you
November 11th, 2014On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. It can be tempting to think of medical malpractice in terms of mistakes made in hospital settings during significant medical procedures such as surgeries. However, while doctor errors such as perforating an organ with a surgical instrument or a mistake in administering anesthesia are real examples of how you can suffer an injury in a health care environment, another common form of medical malpractice can occur outside of the hospital, and even when you are at home: medication errors. Anyone who suffers harm such as a worsened medical condition or overdose arising from a mistake involving prescription......
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