By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, December 11, 2018. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. Advance directives allow patients to make decisions about their long-term care. According to Medicare.gov a properly executed advance directive can tell doctors and your family what you want, so that should you become too ill to make decisions for yourself, doctors and family know what your wishes would be. Advance directives can provide detailed information about whether you would want dialysis, want to be on a breathing machine, or want to be tube fed, should you become too ill to make these decisions for yourself. An advance directive can also provide doctors with information about whether you want to......
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Advance Directives Can Protect All Kinds of Patients from Pain and Suffering
December 11th, 2018When Patients with Mental Illness Are Pushed to Live Alone, Serious Injury or Death Can Follow
December 11th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, December 11, 2018. JACKSON, Mississippi. A New York Times investigative report has found that some individuals who were placed in a pilot program to live alone were pushed into solitary living arrangements before they were ready. While many disability and mental health advocates support the right of the mentally ill to live alone and independently, sending a seriously ill person off to live on their own too soon can have devastating consequences. Imagine if a hospital released a patient while he or she was having a heart attack or an asthma attack. Releasing a mental health patient in crisis too soon can have similarly devastating......
read moreWhy Women Are Still Dying in Childbirth
December 10th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Monday, December 10, 2018. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. Giving birth can be a dangerous act for women and for their babies. There’s always a risk with any pregnancy, but in recent months, we have been seeing more reports that the U.S. has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the developed world. According to the New York Times, many states continue to fail to properly investigate what is leading to these deaths. In fact, some states continue to cite mothers’ behavior as the reason for their deaths or for their children’s birth injuries. If you have been injured in childbirth, if your baby was injured in childbirth,......
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