Overcoming the challenges of proving loss of future earning capacity when you're under-employed or temporarily unemployed

Under Texas law, there's an important distinction between lost future wages and loss of future earning capacity

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Obstructive sleep apnea and anesthesia: A potentially deadly combination if the anesthesiologist doesn't plan ahead

80% of people with obstructive sleep apnea haven't been diagnosed, so anesthesia providers must give careful attention

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Why your surgeon or anesthesiologist might not be the one working on you in the operating room

Learn the secret shell game that occurs daily at many major hospitals

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What you should know about the new colorectal cancer screening recommendations

For average-risk patients, the guidelines no longer recommend an annual colonoscopy beginning at age 50

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Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital hit with Medicare quality of care violation

If a patient is seriously injured or dies because a hospital isn't prepared for an emergency, it's medical malpractice

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Are freestanding outpatient imaging centers as safe as hospitals for MRI or CT scans?

Imaging quality may be similar, but hospitals are better equipped for the occasional life-threatening emergencies that will occur

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A CT scan with barium contrast is risky for patients who recently had any abdominal surgery

Bowel perforation are known complications of abdominal surgery, and can be a life-threatening combination when mixed with barium contrast

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When anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists juggle too many patients at once, patient safety pays

In a wrongful death case I'm handling, the anesthesiologist was handling 5 patients at once

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Barebone nurse staffing levels cause medical malpractice

Medicare recently cited MD Anderson Cancer Center for not hiring enough nurses for patient safety

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Texas doctors can't immediately abandon or drop their patients, but learn what they're allowed to do

Physicians can't terminate existing patients without reasonable notice

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