Those who use cell phones while operating a motor vehicle are three times more likely to be involved in an accident than those who give their full attention to driving their vehicle according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Phone conversations have been shown to cause a cognitive distraction in drivers. In other words, the driver's brain is intensely engaged with the...
Yahoo News and the AP report today as follows:TRENTON, N.J. - For eight months during his infancy, Sean Van Duyn gagged, retched and vomited daily. Now 6, the Winter Haven, Fla., boy still can't eat or drink by mouth, instead being fed by a permanent tube in his belly. Beset by multiple medical problems in his first months, the boy had to have a breathing tube inserted through a hole cut in his...
Every motor vehicle crash changes the direction of the life of the injured victim and the victim's family in some way. Sometimes it is only a slight detour lasting for only a few months. At other times it is a lifetime of grief and losses. What happened to Kimberly Nea and her soldier, as reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, just before her wedding in 2003, is particularly poignant. Jury...
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is most often caused by motor vehicle accidents. That is the primary reason our firm has an MD Neurosurgeon on its staff. Our clients with SCI require special handling and special knowledge. We also make use of extensive online medical libraries of specialized journals. One of these libraries is MDConsult.com which also provides very focused clinical topic tours on...
On July 10, 2006, Melina Del Valle (38) of Boston was killed when a nearly 3000 pound ceiling panel feel from the recently completed I 90/Ted William's Connector Tunnel in Boston's Central Artery. The tragedy follows a decade of concerns over escalating costs related to the tunnel, which included at least one indictment and conviction for false plan submission. Massachusetts Governor, Mitt...
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis are being investigated by the Justice Department. The investigation stems from a deal the companies made with a Canadian generic drug maker, Apotex. In January, the FDA approved Apotex's generic version of the drug Plavix. Sanofi and Bristol-Myers, who co-market Plavix, filed a patent lawsuit against Apotex. In March, the companies settled the lawsuit....
Seemingly, the medical profession has lost all sense of reason and ethics in their obsession to blame victims for unreasonably high malpractice premiums. A new website encourages doctors to blacklist patients and plaintiff attorneys who have filed medical malpractice suits. Ironically, plaintiffs whose cases resulted in not guilty verdicts are encouraged to sue their lawyers for professional...
Purse snatchings, vandalism, assaults, car jackings, robberies, abduction, rape and even shootings have become a problem in the parking lots of some of America's most visible stores where there is inadequate security in place. The parking lots of Walmart,Target, Lowes, and many other retail shopping centers have become prime locations for criminal conduct. It is the responsibility of the...
For approximately 10 years I attended the meetings and events of a Tampa Bay Head Injury Support Group. My contacts and friendships within the group were very enlightening to me. I learned some surprising things about the capabilities, problems and attitudes of those who are traumatically brain injured. There are far too many matters to cover in a single article so today I will mention just...
Some surgeries are more complicated than others. Putting rods into a patient's back definitely requires training and experience. Apparently, Dr. Jacques didn't think it was such a big deal. An $11 Million medical malpractice verdict is the result.Medical Malpractice July 27, 2006 - 11:00PM He went to a local hospital for surgery and left with irreversible damage. Now a jury has awarded the...