On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, January 11, 2018. According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, between 10 and 20 percent of patients who seek treatment for various symptoms are misdiagnosed. Misdiagnoses are so prevalent, in fact, that they are more common than medication mistakes and wrong-site/wrong-procedure/wrong-patient errors, despite the fact that these kinds of mistakes are much more publicized. If patients were more familiar with diagnostic errors, though, they might be able to advocate for themselves better and avoid such mistakes entirely. Sadly, diagnostic errors can have devastating and even fatal consequences. If you think you were the victim of a missed......
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Why You Should Seek a Second Opinion Regardless of Your Diagnosis
January 11th, 2018Family claims that hospital negligence caused a loved one’s death
January 8th, 2018On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Monday, January 8, 2018. For many Louisiana families who have loved ones who have undergone or are planning to undergo surgery, the waiting can be both stressful and terrifying. Families and patients have to wait for a diagnosis, then they have to wait for a procedure, and then they have to wait for the results of that procedure. However, being forced to wait too long can prove deadly to patients. One family claims that hospital negligence is to blame for the death of their loved one. They claim that a delay in his surgery was directly related to the cause of death. In......
read moreWoman Dies from Embolism During Cosmetic Procedure
January 4th, 2018On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, January 4, 2018. According to WAFB, the medical examiner’s report on a woman who died during a cosmetic procedure has been released. The woman, a 40-year-old mother of two from Baton Rouge, had traveled to Florida to undergo a Brazilian butt lift. The medical examiner listed the cause of death as an embolism, which is a rare but serious complication of surgery. The deceased was the fourth patient to die from cosmetic surgery complications at that particular location in as many years. In the autopsy report, the cause of death was ruled an accident as the result of......
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