Posts tagged emergency room

• A Child is Treated in the Emergency Room for a Stair Injury Every Six Minutes

  David Mittleman | March 12, 2012 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  It serves as a marker of childhood growth when your toddler finally makes the long and arduous crawl up the stairs. However, stairs can be a serious danger. In fact, over the past ten years,...

• Four Prescription Drugs the Cause of Most Emergency Room Visits

  David Mittleman | November 26, 2011 9:23 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Yesterday I wrote about the dangers of a common over-the-counter painkiller, Tylenol--but when it comes to prescription medications, a new study found that four drugs are the main culprits for...

• Girl Who Lost Limbs While Waiting for Medical Care Settles for $10 Million

  David Mittleman | October 31, 2011 8:46 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The family of Malyia Jeffers has settled for $10 million with a Methodist hospital, after Malyia's arms and legs had to be partially amputated after waiting for five hours to be treated by emergency...

• Bath Salts: The Harmless Sounding, Yet Lethal Drugs

  David Mittleman | July 18, 2011 10:49 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Imagine a patient at the emergency room so violent and psychotic that it takes a handful of medical staff to hold them down. This is exactly the scene that Dr. Jeffrey J. Narmi repeatedly witnessed...

• Use of CT and MRI Scans Triples in Emergency Rooms and Puts Patients at Risk of Overexposure

  David Mittleman | October 06, 2010 10:00 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  According to a recent study, the use of CT and MRI scans for injury-related emergency room visits as tripled since 1990. Although the study's authors focused primarily on the cost related to MRI and...

• First it Was NFL Players, Now Youth Athletes Suffer From More Head Injuries, Too

  David Mittleman | August 31, 2010 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  National Football League athletes have been the focus of much controversy in the national media for the head injuries that they often suffer as a result of the repeated impacts they endure while...

• Doctor Accused of Improperly Diagnosing Allergic Reaction to Bee Sting Settles With Family

  David Mittleman | June 10, 2010 12:46 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Wantage, NJ--One of two physicians who failed to properly diagnose a bee sting has settled with the family of William Hensley in a medical malpractice suit brought against Dr. Harvey Beckham...

• Immunity for Emergency Room Care Is A Deadly Costly Mistake

  David Mittleman | October 01, 2009 12:20 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Proposed Michigan Senate Bill 858 (SB 858)(PDF file) could forever alter the quality of care in Michiagn Hospital Emergency Rooms, resulting numerous devastating consequences for Michigan patients,...

• Nurses Coming Clean on Hospitals Not Up to Par

  David Mittleman | August 31, 2009 2:13 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Consumer Reports recently conducted a study on hospital conditions. It may not shock you that hospitals aren’t as safe or as sanitary as they claim to be, but it probably will...

• NYC to pay $2M to the family of a woman who died on the floor of a Brooklyn Emergency Room

  David Mittleman | June 04, 2009 2:08 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Wrongful Death
  

  New York City will pay $2 million to the family of Esmin Green, a 49-year-old woman who was forced to wait for more than 24 hours in a Brooklyn psychiatric emergency room. Green eventually died...