Nursing home abuse and neglect is a far more common problem than many of us realize. Abuse can be physical, emotional, psychological, financial or even sexual. Our elders are particularly vulnerable, as they may be unable to defend themselves or even properly communicate that a problem exists. If your loved one suffers from an intellectual [...]
Last month, we wrote about the Tennessee Medical Association’s push for a constitutional amendment to cap non-economic damage awards for medical malpractice cases. While researching the subject matter, we discovered a much more disturbing proposal backed by a so-called “patient advocacy group” based in Georgia. The non-profit group, called Patients for Fair Compensation, purports to [...]
Retail walk-in clinics have experienced a major surge in growth and use in the just the past six years. The spike was the result of planned business expansions to provide convenient non-emergency care that was promoted by policy makers and insurers as a way to decrease healthcare costs. A new study published in the March [...]
Having a child is many things: wondrous and scary and exhilarating and upsetting and a thousand other feelings. Children are a part of you, but a part of you that you can’t fully control and worry about constantly. For many, the safety fears of the early years go unrealized. For a very few, those worst [...]
Climate change is controversial, but we do know one thing; the weather this past year has been bizarre. A mix of strange conditions and big storms contributed to challenging driving conditions all winter, and we’ve been subject to high winds and tornado watches this spring. If you have been in a car accident recently, knowing [...]
In late 2010, a small company called AliveCor announced an innovative way to bring advanced medical diagnostics to consumer smartphones. Specifically, the company debuted a smartphone case at the Consumer Electronics Show that was capable of taking an electrocardiogram (ECG) reading of a user’s heart activity through a pair of electrodes. AliveCor hasn’t been slacking [...]
The Tennessee Medical Association is pushing for a constitutional amendment that would cap non-economic damage awards for medical malpractice cases. Amending the state constitution is no small feat; it requires ratification by a two-thirds vote by two General Assemblies and voter approval thereafter. Needless to say, it’s an uphill battle. The deluded thinking that leads [...]
At the end of October, 2015, ABC News 2 in Nashville reported that a 45 year old man was critically injured in a wrong-way crash with a box truck on I-40. According to their report, the police were informed of the driver going the wrong way, but were unable to reach him in time. The [...]
As Xarelto lawsuits move forward, new information about the clinical trials of the blood thinner is coming to light. At the heart of the controversy is a blood-testing device used during clinical trials that was later recalled for faulty results. While independent reviews of the clinical trials insist that the results were unchanged by the [...]
We’ve talked about Takata a lot over the years. Back then, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued an updated recall summary that expanded the number of vehicles affected and highlighted a previously unknown problem with side-impact airbags. The updated statement was the most recent part of an ongoing recall concerning defective airbags that seriously [...]
