Imagine for a moment that you visit a doctor with your back problem, and his or her trusted medical recommendation is a minimal, routine spinal surgery procedure. The diagnosis makes sense to you, you agree to have the surgery with its minimal risks, and you enter the operating room. But somehow a surgical error occurs,… Read More
Breast Cancer – Current Statistics and Screening Techniques
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will discuss the latest statistics, screening and diagnosis techniques: The Numbers Tell (Some of) the Story Currently, 1 out of 8 women living in the United States will receive a diagnosis of breast cancer sometime in their lives1. While those statistics seem grim, the bright side is… Read More
CTA “Ghost Train” Crash Leaves Many Unanswered Questions
Earlier this week, another substantial CTA train crash occurred, this time involving what investigators and others are referring to as a “ghost train” because the train was supposedly out of service and driverless. Nevertheless, the ghost train exited the Forest Park rail yard and past multiple track switches before colliding head-on at approximately 20 miles… Read More
Texting While Driving Epidemic
Although many states, including Illinois,distracted driving chart 300×224 Texting While Driving Epidemic have made texting while driving illegal, in 2011, 23% of automobile accidents were a result of distraction by cell phone usage. That is 1.3 million automobile collisions. Driving while texting makes an accident 23% more likely. 39 states and the District of Columbia… Read More
Life-Threatening Risks Not Disclosed to Study Participants, Govt Finds
As reported in yesterday’s New York Times, more than a thousand families who allowed their premature babies to receive oxygen treatment as part of a government-funded study were never told by the universities conducting the study of serious risks to the newborns, including blindness and death. The Office for Human Research Protections — whose job… Read More
Study Finds Brain Imaging Can Predict Pain Intensity
Pain and suffering is often difficult to measure, even by the most experienced pain specialists. Patients are typically asked to rate their own pain on a scale of 1-10. Although there are objective ways to confirm physical and psychological injuries consistent with pain, the nature and extent of pain is typically measured by the patient’s… Read More
Metra Trying to Delay Safety Improvements to Railroad
Metra, one of the largest commuter railroad operators in Illinois, is trying to delay installation of safety technology intended to slow or stop trains automatically to prevent a serious train derailment or collision. The technology — known as positive train control (PTC) — serves as a “fail-safe” mechanism to override the train operator or engineer… Read More
Heart Murmurs – Failure to Diagnose and Treat
More often than doctors would ever admit, “specialists” who called in to examine patients in hospitals merely stop by the nurse’s station to review the patient’s chart, rather than actually seeing the patient, yet document a physical examination so brief and in such poor handwriting that it is impossible to decipher. It often comes as… Read More
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
This month is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and a good time to talk about traumatic brain injury and its consequences. Traumatic brain injury (TBI), sometimes called “closed head injury,” occurs when an individual experiences a sudden, violent jolt or blow to the head. Sometimes, TBI occurs from the recoil action when the head is struck,… Read More
Maker of Meningitis-Tainted Injections May Be Prosecuted
Our meningitis injury attorneys have previously written about the outbreak of meningitis found in steroid injections used to treat pain, which sickened scores of people earlier this year. We have encouraged the victims of this negligently-prepared product to seek legal advice immediately. Now, it appears that civil lawsuits may not be all that the makers of… Read More
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