Medical Malpractice

• To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System: Medical Negligence Occurs but Why?

  Sach Oliver | February 27, 2009 10:46 AM | 2 CommentsBentonville , AR

  To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System: Medical Negligence Occurs but Why? The Institute of Medicine found a decade ago that as many as 98,000 people die every year from preventable...

• Cervical Corpectomy and Strut Graft Operations - Spinal Cord Injuries

  Sach Oliver | March 24, 2008 7:25 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  A cervical corpectomy and strut graft operation is a surgery on the cervical spine that requires extreme skill and expertise on behalf of the surgeon. A corpectomy is surgery that relieves pressure on the spinal cord due to spinal stenosis. Spinal Stenosis is bone spurs pressing on the spinal cord. When pressure is placed on the spinal cord an array of problems can occur: walking, bowels,...

• Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: Unfortunate Reality or a Malpractice Cover-up?

  Ryan Scott | October 03, 2008 2:41 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Trauma, aging, improper body mechanics and normal wear and tear can all injure your spine. And damage to any part of your back — especially pressure on your nerves — can cause pain and...

• Regulating the Health Care Market

  Sach Oliver | September 11, 2009 8:55 AM | 2 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Tort reform is a touchy subject. Many people argue that tort lawyers who take on medical malpractice claims are just trying to ruin doctors and get rich quick, all while driving up healthcare costs...

• Telemedicine: Bringing Experts to Rural Hospitals

  Ryan Scott | April 01, 2009 4:57 PM | 2 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Shop, email, read the news, and NOW... get medical attention! That's right, many hospitals are employing the internet to maximize the resources of specialist through telemedicine. According to the...

• Expert Doctors in Medical Negligence Cases

  Sach Oliver | December 01, 2008 5:40 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  I have been on the phone with expert doctors all day and I am always so grateful when a doctor speaks language I can understand. Fortunately, the doctors I have been working with are willing to...

• Juvenile Diabetes

  Sach Oliver | November 28, 2008 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Juvenile diabetes mellitus, commonly known as Type 1 diabetes, is a syndrome with disordered metabolism and inappropriately high blood glucose levels due to a deficiency of insulin secretion in the...

• Bacterial Meningitis-Failure to Diagnose

  Jeanie Oliver | December 14, 2007 9:30 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  Bacterial meningitis is easy to identify. Doctors just have to do the tests. Why, then, do people die every year from this disease? One of the major reasons is that emergency room personnel, especially, tend to take one look at vomiting and diagnose "nausea". They all too often leave it at that. The major symptoms for bacterial meningitisinclude the following: nausea, high fever, stiff neck,...

• Pay First” Hospital Care

  Sach Oliver | March 20, 2009 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR

  PAY FIRST” HOSPITAL CARE A hospital in Wynne plans to require some of its patients who are seeking non emergency care to pay upfront for their care. This seems to be a growing trend in small...

• Has Your Nurse Had a Flu Shot?

  Ryan Scott | January 30, 2009 10:12 AM | 2 CommentsBentonville , AR

  According to a recent study, nearly 60 percent of healthcare workers do not get a flu shot. According to the study, one of the most common excuses why is that the worker is afraid the shot itself...