- Ed Normand | July 24, 2009 1:46 AM | Orlando, FL
Category:
Head & Brain Injuries
There is a little known but highly unfair practice in charges for hospital care. That is that a private pay or uninsured patient is charged much more for the exact same services than is charged...
- Bob Carroll | January 13, 2007 8:31 AM | Pinellas, FL
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Automobile Accidents
Florida law makes it difficult to sue a liquor-serving establishment for the act of serving a patron even an excessive amount of alcohol. By statute bars, taverns and restaurants are given immunity in most cases. However, there are some situations which still can result in legal liability for the serving of alcohol. One would be the circumstances described in this out-of-state report.Mass....
- John Hopkins | January 01, 2007 3:18 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
Category:
Head & Brain Injuries
Florida doctors have been successful in passing sweeping tort reform measures twice in this state. Each time they made claims that verdicts handed down by "uninformed" jurors were outrageously high and they were having trouble paying high premiums for malpractice insurance. They threatened the citizens of Florida that they were all going to leave the state and they would leave us with no one to...
- John Hopkins | November 26, 2006 12:09 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Head & Brain Injuries
Victims of stroke and autistic children are being helped by a robot and a video game. A robot guides the limbs of stroke patients repeatedly through a video game. The constant manipulation helps to rehabilitate damaged limbs of stroke patients. The robot takes over the movement of the joystick if the patient is not capable of moving it appropriately. Autistic children are also being assisted...
- John Hopkins | November 10, 2006 8:46 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
Category:
Head & Brain Injuries
Injured victims of medical negligence continue to suffer the inability to find lawyers who have the expertise and financial strength to handle medical negligence cases. The passage of "tort reform" in Florida has created a situation in which injured victims can no longer recover fair compensation for their "human damages". Human damages are those that the insurance lobby feel juries have gotten...
- John Hopkins | September 29, 2006 11:08 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Wrongful Death
The St. Petersburg Times reports a startling event. Physicians who, through less than candid means, convinced voters to limit the damages that victims of medical malpractice can collect; are now going to "convince" their patients to forgive them for their malpractice. The Times reports that the waiver, which physicians will ask their patients to sign, will limit non-economic damages to...
- John Hopkins | September 22, 2006 9:50 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Head & Brain Injuries
I recently read an article relating to a news cast on Fox 28, in Indiana and it raised those sensitive hackles on the back of my neck. The article was about Ashley Faloon and an auto accident that landed her in the hospital. She was recovering well from what were relatively minor injuries; when a nurse injected her IV line with insulin. Certainly, the nurses action was accidental; she certainly...
- Staff Writer | August 20, 2006 11:42 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
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Head & Brain Injuries
Michael Kaplan in New York has been doing a great job of keeping up with news and developments on the alarming number of soldiers who are returning from Iraq with brain injuries. Ever since the USA Today brought the country's attention to the problem, soldiers and veterans have been battling the Senate Committee considering federal funding for a brain injury research center.
- Bob Carroll | August 03, 2006 7:26 AM | Pinellas, FL
Category:
Spinal Cord Injuries
The title of the correspondence in a medical journal was not particularly dramatic or catchy. The Evidence for Spinal Immobilization: An Estimate of the Magnitude of the Treatment Benefit, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 48 • Number 2 • August 2006 But, it attracted my attention because of the number of spinal cord injuries experienced by my clients over the years. And, because of...
- Bob Carroll | July 30, 2006 5:39 AM | Pinellas, FL
Category:
Spinal Cord Injuries
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...