Lauren Ellerman

I know, no one wants to sound like a whiny baby…. but maybe, there is a time and a place to let it all out.Where is that place? Your doctor’s office.Lets say you visit your doctor for knee pain – and tell her in September, “it hurts so bad I…

I have always thought Consumer Reports did a great job analyzing new cars, and technologies that hit the market. But last week, their reporting became very personal. A review of 16,000 nursing homes in the U.S. finds that poor quality care is still evident. The review of various facilities not…

This morning in the paper was a blurb – on a report released this week from Tampa Florida. The American Medical Association believes the federal government’s mandate to reduce Medicare payments will force more doctors to stop seeing elderly and miltary patients.AMA speaker Jeremy Lazarus stated that “over the next…

Almost daily, we have clients tell us “I wish I had known to keep a log before this all happened.”What happens is as follows – someone comes in to our office with a possible negligence claim against a nursing home, medical provider etc.We ask them – “did you ever make…

Are you allergic to ANYTHING? Nuts? Sulphur drugs? What about Penicillin?You wouldn’t dream of eating in a restaurant without asking the waitress what is in the chef’s special sauce, so why would you take a prescription from the pharmacy without question? You know where you “sign in” at the pharmacy…

I read an article today – http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=43631It’s interesting. Apparently, our federal government and its administrative agencies designed to regulate and police certain industries, such as Nursing Homes, have not been as strict, resolved, or hard on nursing homes as of late.The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, in…