On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. When illness, pain or physical injury occurs, most people seek the care and comfort that Louisiana medical professionals can offer. Unfortunately, some patients may experience medical malpractice through inadequate care, failure to diagnose, medication errors and other unfortunate errors. One patient in another state is claiming he suffers from a virus related to the care he received from one nurse. The man sought management of pain from a hospital emergency room in 2011. The man has filed a recent lawsuit, claiming that his nurse administered two doses of morphine during his stay, and the lawsuit further claims......
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Medical malpractice: Nurse may have exposed patients to virus
October 24th, 2018Congress Looks at Childbirth Safety
October 23rd, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana. According to NBC News, the U.S. has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world. 700 women die each year due to complications related to their pregnancies. Another 50,000 are seriously injured due to childbirth complications. Many of these deaths could have been prevented with proper medical care. Researchers have found that when women go into labor, doctors may focus heavily on the health of the baby and fail to provide the mother with the same kind of intensive medical support she might need. According to NBC News, approximately 60% of all childbirth-related deaths could have been prevented had......
read moreHow Computer-Based Records Still Fail to Prevent Hospital Medication Overdoses
October 23rd, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana. According to Wired, on average, 1 in 15 hospital patients will suffer the consequences of medication errors. These kinds of medical errors cost hospitals $21 billion each year. Wired reports that many hospitals believed that the advent of computer-based medication ordering would improve patient health and reduce the number of errors. After all, a computer system could record a patient’s allergies, and flag any potentially dangerous interactions. Doctors could carefully calibrate dosage using the help of computers. However, Wired recently published an investigation on the ways in which technology can open the doors to new and potentially deadly types of......
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