Texas Medical Malpractice Expert Reports - Yet Another Cautionary Tale
May 12, 2010
This Legal Guide is not intended to be a substitute for legal advice
or consultation. Instead, it is intended to provide a general
background of the issues presented. One should always obtain a forma...
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Real Life Stories - Ignored to Death
May 11, 2010
What follows is a real-life story that occurred at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas Texas. It is excerpted from the Dallas Morning News at www.dallasnews.com
"On a scale of 1 to 10, the emergency r...
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What every patient should know - Is the Healthcare System really going Broke?
May 11, 2010
In this age of media hype and the new healthcare regulations, it is important for the healthcare consumer to remain grounded in fact. One question that comes up often is that of the financial health of...
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What every patient should know - The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
May 05, 2010
Federal law requires compliance of each hospital that accepts medicare patients with the Emergency Treatment and Active Labor Act. The Code of Federal Regulations and interpretive guidelines describe i...
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Birth Injury - Has the joint Commission made recommendations to prevent birth injuries?
May 05, 2010
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has made recommendations that are designed to prevent injuries to babies during the birth process. The Joint Commission has found that ...
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Umbilical Cord Blood Gases Level and Birth Injury
May 05, 2010
One of the ways that any lawyer can screen a potential birth injury case prior to referring it to a birth injury specialist, is to evaluate the lab report for the baby's cord blood gases.
The term Cord...
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Birth Injury - What are the root causes of injuries to babies in Labor and Delivery?
May 05, 2010
According to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Oganizations, in the cases they studied communication issues topped the list of identified root causes (72 percent), with more than one-...
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Birth Injury - What should I know about my baby's cord blood gases?
May 05, 2010
The term Cord Blood Gases
refers to the analysis of the oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood from the
babys umbilical cord. This gives a
snapshot of the oxygenation status of the baby in the moments ...
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Birth Injury - Do Liver Enzyme Values Time a Brain Injury in a Newborn?
May 05, 2010
In birth injury cases, frequently the hospital's lawyers will claim that the baby suffered an unknown, unknowable, unforeseeable event in the uterus before labor ever started that damaged the baby's br...
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What Every Patient Should Know - 20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors
May 04, 2010
The US Department of Health Human Service's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has published 20 steps it believes can help reduce medical errors. Those steps are as follows:
What Can You Do? B...
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