On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. When you seek medical care following a catastrophic injury, you trust that your healthcare providers will take both safe and effective measures to facilitate pain management. This might include giving you a prescription for opiates, which are synthetic drugs derived from opium. According to CBS News, approximately 38 percent of Americans, or nearly 92 million people, had a legitimate prescription for opiates in 2015. Although popular opiates like hydrocodone, morphine, and fentanyl can effectively ease debilitating and chronic pain, relief comes at a cost: Opiates are incredibly addictive, and any kind of long-term use will......
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September 6th, 2017What Is Alarm Fatigue?
September 6th, 2017On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Wednesday, September 6, 2017. When you hear a car alarm sound on your street, is your first instinct to call the police and let them know someone is trying to break into a vehicle? What about when the smoke alarm in your home sounds? Do you grab your children, run outside, and call the fire department? In the above scenarios, most people take neither proposed approach. Instead, they simply hope the owner of the car turns off the alarm soon, or they grab a towel and start fanning the smoke detector until the beeping stops. Humans are inherently inclined......
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September 5th, 2017On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Surgical Errors on Tuesday, September 5, 2017. Louisiana families know that bringing a child into the world is an amazing and somewhat terrifying experience. The memories of the day that a child is born should not be marred by pain caused by surgical errors. Such was the case for one mother who was forced to undergo more surgery to correct a preventable issue. In October of 2014, a woman underwent a cesarean section to deliver her baby. It wasn’t until eleven weeks later that doctors discovered that an eighteen-inch-square sponge had been left inside of her after the procedure was finished. However, because it took so long......
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