Lauren Ellerman

I thankfully, am in good health and don’t have many physician visits. I do however, have a loved one who spends hundreds of hours a year under direct physician care.Do her doctors communicate? Do you assume they share information?When my loved one goes to the doctor, I encourage her to…

This is a question / answer column in our local paper, the Roanoke Times. Dear Dr. Camardi: I’m in a panic, I’m really scared and I just don’t know what to say or how to act.My mother is dying because of cancer and she has little time left and she…

I want a dollar for every case I have reviewed, wherein an ambulatory (walking) nursing home resident is over-medicated so they won’t bother the nursing staff any more.No, that is clearly not in the records, but you will see:Nurses Note:– pt. ambulating up and down hall. Redirected to room. .25…

A few years ago, we handled a funeral home negligence case. Apparently, negligence occurs more than you would think in funeral homes.What is funeral home negligence?Well, if the facility mis-treats your loved ones’ body, fails to care for it in the way you contracted, and it causes you emotional distress,…

I hate to read this – but again, elderly person with cognitive problems elopes from Nursing Home and dies. According to the Chicago Tribune, however, the employee that ignored the alarm indicating the resident had eloped, has been charged: An Itasca nursing home employee watched three straight episodes of “Dog…

March 4, 2009The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a Vermont woman can sue Wyeth for injuries she suffered after receiving one of the drug maker’s medicines. The ruling affirms an opinion by the Vermont Supreme Court, which upheld a $6.7 million verdict in favor of Diana Levine, who lost an…