On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. Many Louisiana residents are likely aware that pharmaceutical drugs are all classified in different ways. Many drugs are controlled to help prevent overdosing and abuse of the drugs, requiring strict prescribing rules. Following 52-year-old Chris Cornell’s death in 2017, his family filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his physician for negligently prescribing controlled drugs to the singer. In 2017, Chris Cornell’s family received the shocking news that he had taken his own life. Following an investigation and toxicology reports, controlled substances were found in his system, including a drug called Ativan. Although Cornell had a history of addiction......
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Chris Cornell’s family accuses doctor of medical malpractice
November 13th, 2018Is medical malpractice to blame for famous musician’s death?
November 7th, 2018On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Wednesday, November 7, 2018. As Louisiana readers may know, the lead singer for the band Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, was found dead in his hotel room after an apparent suicide. The death took place months ago, and now his widow is moving forward with a medical malpractice claim against the doctor that prescribed him certain types of medication. Cornell had a medical history that includes addiction and relapses. According to the claim filed by the grieving widow, the doctor should have known that the drug prescribed could have caused him harm, and he allegedly failed to warn Cornell about it potentially causing......
read moreMinimally-Invasive Surgery for Cervical Cancer Could Lead to Reoccurrence
November 5th, 2018JACKSON, Mississippi. The New York Times recently reported on a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine that found that minimally-invasive surgery for cervical cancer comes with a higher risk of reoccurrence than the older, more invasive method. In fact, partway through the study, the study had to be halted because too many women who were receiving the minimally invasive procedure were dying. Doctors could not continue the research ethically, without informing patients about the risk. Doctors in the study stopped it to tell patients who were considering the minimally invasive surgery to go with open surgery instead. As more cancer specialists learn about the new data, many are changing the way they treat cancer surgically. While less-invasive......
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