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Questions to ask when your loved one is considering surgery 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Questions to ask when your loved one is considering surgery

I have a number of friends and family that will call before a surgery or consult with a new doctor and ask what I know about the physician. I don’t have inside information, I just know where to look for information about healthcare providers online. Most states have free data bases where information about healthcare…

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Lightbulb jokes and non-competes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Lightbulb jokes and non-competes

Do you remember all the great light bulb jokes of the late 1990’s? You could directly insult any kind of person in just a few sentences – blondes, engineers, lawyers, doctors, etc. The beauty of these terrible jokes was that the hyperbole was often based on some element of truth (** BUT FOR BLOND JOKES which are…

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Assault in a Virginia nursing home 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Assault in a Virginia nursing home

Our local news today lead off with a nightmare headline – Man in hospital after shooting at local Retirement Community. It’s a nightmare because families across the region worried whether or not the person shot was a resident, and when they learned it was a visitor to the long term care facility who had been…

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Why playing dress up with my daughter makes me think of Virginia law on non-competes 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Why playing dress up with my daughter makes me think of Virginia law on non-competes

This morning my precious child pranced around our kitchen in a tutu, with a fairy wand. She tried to grant our cat Earl three wishes by tapping his head with the wand. I think he wished for her to leave as the plastic star fell upon his head rather aggressively. Sadly, she didn’t quite sense his wishes involved personal…

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Blood Thinners can Kill 150 150 Dan Frith
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Blood Thinners can Kill

The use of anti-coagulants, or blood thinners, is wide spread in the United States.  Doctors prescribe anti-coagulation therapy for patients at increased risk of strokes, patients with  atrial fibrillation (Afib), and post-operative patients (especially hip and knee surgeries) who are at increased risk of forming blood clots in their legs and lungs. The most commonly prescribed…

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Post Surgical Infection cases 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Post Surgical Infection cases

Can you imagine having surgery, going home only to return to the hospital days later so sick you can’t breathe, stand or walk? Then you spend months in ICU, on a ventilator and in rehabilitation all because you acquired an infection during or after the surgery that went untreated? Our office can investigate these post…

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Caring for a disabled or elderly loved one in Virginia from out of state 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Caring for a disabled or elderly loved one in Virginia from out of state

I get it. I get it because I’ve been there. You have a loved one who is disabled or older and you are states away. You can’t be there to visit daily, check on home health, interview aides, complain to the nursing home administrator or tell your loved one in person they are loved. When…

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Why is saying “I am sorry,” so hard in business relationships? 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

Why is saying “I am sorry,” so hard in business relationships?

Last year we filed a case on behalf of a young woman who lost her child in childbirth. Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, and cannot be discussed, one of the requests we made (and frequently make in medical malpractice cases) is that the defendant express in some way, that he or she…

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The law, it is a changing 150 150 Lauren Ellerman

The law, it is a changing

Take a moment to access this Bob Dylan Cover of The Times they are a changing. Press Play. Now, with that well known folk sound in the background I will make my brief but important point about Virginia Non-Compete law or rather Virginia Business Tort law: The law, it is a changing.   A few weeks ago…

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What do Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have in common? 150 150 Dan Frith
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What do Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe have in common?

How about greed and the desire to underpay skilled employees.  The answer to the question was revealed due to a class action lawsuit filed by 64,000 programmers and engineers who accused these companies of conspiring not to raid one another’s workforces in the interest of stifling competition and suppressing wages.  The lawsuit uncovered the fact these Silicon…

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Diagnostic Errors: What patients can do to reduce the risk 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

Diagnostic Errors: What patients can do to reduce the risk

I just read an interesting article from Inside Medical Liability, a publication for the medical profession.  The article, “Look Again – What do you really see? Useful Tips for Avoiding Misdiagnosis” provides some scary information for patients like this: 1.  40,000 to 80,000 patients die each year due to a physician’s incorrect diagnosis of his/her patient’s…

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Bad Grade for Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital 150 150 Dan Frith
  • Dan Frith

Bad Grade for Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital

Today’s issue (4-29-2014) of the Roanoke Times contained an interesting article on the safety of our area’s hospitals.  The article, “Group Awards C to Franklin County Hospital” reports on the hospital safety ratings produced by The Leapfrog Group.  The Leapfrog Hospital Survey is the gold standard for comparing hospitals’ performance on the national standards of safety,…

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