Lauren Ellerman

Wow – opened today’s Wall Street Journal and read a scary article about horrific surgical incidents. What do I mean? Well – imagine sparks from surgical tools starting a fire that consumes gowns, drapes and beds within seconds.Sounds like a terrible movie – but apparently it does occur. How much?…

According to the Virginia Administrative Code – Nursing Home Neglect is “failure to provide timely and consistent services, treatment or care to a resident or residents, that are necessary to obtain or maintain the resident or resident’s health safety or comfort; or a failure to provide timely and consistent goods…

Friends – this happens more than you think. Nursing home residents get the WRONG medication, or a roommate’s medication, or the wrong amount.Please be diligent about discussing medication with the NH staff. If your loved one says they are giving them new pills, you as responsibility party, should have been…

This week I posted a blog about the Salmonella peanut butter issues. I asked the question “Who is to blame?” The Health dept? Cleaning crew? Workers? Apparently – the insurance company who supposedly insures the Peanut Company who made the product, is asking a local federal court to say whether…

FDA – The Federal Drug Administration, has a great deal of responsibility. Products, medicine, imports, exports – and now with a new President in the White House, we may see a review of how this huge governmental agency works.Making the peanut butter issue personal, the President told press this week…

So I am sure you have read by now, family of deceased Minnesota woman has filed a suit against the manufacturer of the peanutbutter that had salmonella.Now – as Americans, we probably think this lawsuit is justified. Company had a duty to make a safe product – roaches, mold and…