On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Thursday, June 12, 2014. Residents of Louisiana and Americans everywhere may be concerned by the recent news of widespread problems and poor care in Veterans Administration hospitals across the nation. For many people though, those feelings hit much closer to home when they hear and witness stories of an individual family’s loss and suffering at the hands of such poor care. One such story is making news and it involves a tragic loss of life that one family alleges was due to negligence on the part of VA hospital staff. The children of a military veteran allege that their father was......
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No money-back guarantee for medical malpractice or doctor error
June 5th, 2014On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, June 5, 2014. The customer is always right. For decades, this was the philosophy of the American business culture. For some industries it still is. Some retailers sell their goods with a 100 percentage guarantee of satisfaction. But some industries do not lend themselves well to money-back guarantees. One of these is the medical profession. No doctor is infallible. Factors out of a doctor’s control can affect the success of a patient’s treatment, the outcome of an operation and patient injuries. In fact, a doctor who claims “100 percent success or your money back” is actually a little scary. So who does pay when a doctor......
read moreFailure to diagnose and misdiagnosis are all too common
May 29th, 2014On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, May 29, 2014. Diagnostic errors are often preventable, and in the time it takes for someone to realize the mistake the patient may have received unnecessary treatment or missed out on treatment that would improve or eliminate his or her condition. Research from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that the problem is more common than most people imagine. According to the research, millions of dollars in medical malpractice claims are linked to diagnostic errors. This is potentially a problem in Louisiana as well as elsewhere in the country. There are several different ways that diagnostic errors might happen.......
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