By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. The media has recently raised awareness of suicide on college campuses. Many students report suffering from depression and anxiety, especially during their first years in college. A new environment, new pressures, and new challenges can make symptoms worse. When any young person kills him or herself, family, friends, and communities often wonder whether anything could have been done to prevent it. Some parents, however, believe that their children’s colleges have a responsibility to do a better job at preventing student suicides. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, one mother is suing Penn for her son’s suicide, alleging that the school and......
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November 20th, 2018Louisiana Ranked Second in Poor Maternal Care
November 19th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Monday, November 19, 2018. The Bowling Law Firm recently published a blog article about a USA TODAY investigation into maternal care and why the United States has been deemed the most dangerous country in which to give birth in the developed world. Now, Tulane University has announced it is conducting a study into maternal care in Louisiana. As explained in an article published in the New Orleans Advocate on November 6, 2018, the Tulane study will be conducted by Maeve Wallace of the University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The study will utilize $2.4 million in grants to fund the research into pregnancy-associated mortality. This......
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November 13th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. JACKSON, Mississippi. As doctors spend more and more time on their computers writing up patient records, some doctors have chosen to outsource their note taking to medical scribes. Medical scribes are generally not doctors. They are often paid minimum wage (or just slightly above minimum wage) to take doctor’s notes. According to the New Yorker, medical scribes are essentially glorified note-takers, and their rates of error can be as high 50 percent, according to one study. When medical scribes make mistakes, and when doctors rely on patient’s records drawn up by medical scribes to make diagnostic decisions, medical malpractice can occur. In some......
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