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• Traumatic Brain Injury...The Unseen Harm

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  After a wreck, traumatic Brain Injury often goes undiagnosed in the Emergency Room. The doctors are worried about broken bones and other serious injuries and often overlook the most serious injury of all, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Every year, one in five hundred Americans have a TBI.Not long ago, unlike a broken bone or a herniated disc, most TBI was invisible. This made this type of case...

• Car Crash Not Always Driver's Fault

  Drew Dixon | February 21, 2008 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  There were nearly 6,420,000 auto wrecks in the United States in 2005. Of those 6,420,000 wrecks more than 2,900,000 people were injured and 42,636 people were killed. That means that every ten seconds someone in the United States is involved in a car wreck. Most often those wrecks are the result of driver negligence due to the driver's failure to obey traffic laws, use of a cell phone, or use...

• Insurers Are Refusing to Pay for Hospital Errors

  Frank Bailey | January 21, 2008 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  What is this world coming to? Insurers are refusing to pay for hospital errors. Give me a break! For years the hospital's liability carriers have had to be drug into court kicking and screaming to make them pay for a hospital's errors. Now, it looks like a patient's medical insurance is following suit. Who then is to pay for the hospital's errors? Surely not the wrongdoer...Latest news...

• Medical Errors: Is Our Health Care System Safe

  Frank Bailey | January 18, 2008 8:28 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Errors in health care are a leading cause of death and injury. Health care should be safe. It is not! In a revealing study, the Institute of Medicine found that sizable numbers of Americans are harmed as a result of medical errors. This study was authored by a blue ribbon panel which included William C Richardson as its chair. Mr. Richardson was President and CEO of the W. K. Kellogg...

• How to Make Our Highways Safe

  Frank Bailey | January 04, 2008 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  The cause of the Tornado bus crash that killed four on Interstate 40 near Forrest City Arkansas is still unclear, but new facts point to driver fatigue. Police have now confirmed the driver was on amphetamines, a drug used to stay awake. Police have also learned that the Tornado Bus Co. falsified records by listing a co-driver, when the co-driver was actually off duty and in El Paso, Texas at...

• Meningitis and the Trial Attorney

  Frank Bailey | January 02, 2008 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Meningitis is usually a complication of another bacterial infection such as pneumonia. With meningitis, the brain and spinal cord meninges (hence meningitis) become infected. If caught early and the infecting organism responds to antibiotics, the prognosis is usually good. If the meningitis is not treated early the prognosis is much worse, often resulting in death or permanent brain damage. ...

• Zetia May Cause Liver Damage

  Frank Bailey | December 21, 2007 2:58 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Are big drug companies hiding the results of unfavorable test in favor of profits? A recent article in the New York Times seems to indicate that is just what is happening. The New York Times writes:New evidence shows that the drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough have conducted several studies of their popular cholesterol medicine Zetia that raise questions about its risks to the liver, but...

• How Allstate Insurance Company Treats Its Policyholders

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 4:25 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  Allstate Insurance Company continues to ignore a judge's ruling to turn over papers. Facing a $25,000 a day fine, Allstate continues to disregard a Missouri judges order to turn the papers over. Allstate told the judge they will not turn over the papers no matter how much he fines them.Last month the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the papers turned over. Allstate still refused.I wonder what...

• Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

  Frank Bailey | December 19, 2007 9:08 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  America has to face the growing problem of caring for our frail elderly. All too often, our loved ones are mistreated and abused by underpaid overworked nursing home staff. It is time Americans address this horrendous problem by bringing to light the abuse anytime it is found.Just today I read about a terrible case of abuse and neglect that occurred in California. The article reminded me of...

• We Can Help Build a Safer Helath Care System

  Frank Bailey | December 06, 2007 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR

  In June of 1998, the Quality of Health Care in America project was initiated by the Institute of Medicine. Its purpose was to develop a strategy that would improve the quality of care in the United States. The Institute of Medicine found that each year, more than 98,000 Americans die because of medical mistakes. That is more than are killed on the highways. In addition, many more people...