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Brain Damage After Weight Loss Surgery

Wernicke’s Encephalopathy Misdiagnosis Causes Severe Injuries and Death More than 100,000 weight-loss procedures are performed annually in the United States alone, and numbers are rising.  Although these “bariatric” surgeries are lucrative for the doctors who perform weight loss surgery and are heavily advertised on billboards and on the internet, they come with serious risks. One …

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What Happens When Doctors Don’t Have to Pay for the Damage They Cause?

One of the most consistent goals of so-called “tort reform” is to put an upper limit on the amount that a defendant has to pay for the damage he causes in injury suits.  For example, in Texas, where there are such limits, a doctor can kill a child or a housewife or a grandfather through …

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Stopping the Next Misdiagnosis Tragedy

Every year there are advances in diagnosing and treating diseases and injuries.  For example, there have been dramatic improvements in methods of treating cancer and diagnosing cancer.  While cancer misdiagnosis cases are particularly tragic, our team has been handling more and more misdiagnosis cases involving not only cancer but other diseases.  Diseases like meningitis, and …

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Terrible Injuries From Steroid Injections for Back Pain

Spinal Injuries Due to Unnecessary Steroid Injections Rising Each day in the United States, thousands of people undergo injections in their necks or lower backs with steroids.  These injections are meant to be given just above the “dura” of the spinal cord.  The dura is a tough covering over the spinal cord and within it …

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Medical Malpractice Suits Hard to Prove

Many Victims–but Very Few Malpractice Suits. Why? Study after study–by the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine, the National Institute of Health, major medical schools and others, has conclude that hundreds of thousands of people die every year in this country because of medical malpractice.  Hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of other people are …

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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Help Everyone

Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Help Everyone Talk radio hosts and insurance lobbyists have made their careers criticizing people who file suit – as if using the courts guaranteed by the Constitution was dirty. Who is funding all this talk? People who get sued and their insurance companies, of course. Powerful people and their insurance companies don’t …

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The Meaning of “Wrongful Death”

Wrongful Death Lawsuits At my firm we handle a variety of Wrongful Death lawsuits.  Because we work on so many medical malpractice cases, most of the Wrongful Death suits we handle are also medical malpractice cases.  Just yesterday, I had a client call us about a medical malpractice case, but she wanted to know if …

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