Your total blood pressure reading is determined by measuring your systolic and diastolic blood pressures. Systolic blood pressure, the top number, measures the force your heart exerts on the walls of your arteries each time it beats. Diastolic blood pressure, the bottom number, measures the force your heart exerts on the walls of your arteries
Medical Errors
I have written blogs before about how to find a good doctor in Virginia. Click here. Now I want to talk about finding a good hospital in Virginia. Of course you want a good doctor to provide you or your family with great care but what about the nursing staff and other considerations which might
I would like to start with the following statement – NO ONE SHOULD WANT TO HAVE A MALPRACTICE LAWSUIT. Being a plaintiff (that is what we call the party who files a lawsuit) is not fun. It’s emotionally exhausting, people pry into your personal and professional life, and you spend a year being judged, questioned,
Have you ever read your medical records from your healthcare providers? I know…it is too hard and too time consuming. But if you read them you might be shocked at how inaccurate they are on some very basic and potentially life threatening ways. Examples I have seen include the wrong blood type, failing to include
Yes they are related. Telemedicine, or the use of remote audio-visual technology to provide medical care has been around for years. It probably got its first start when smaller rural hospitals used remote radiologists to interpret x-rays, CTs, and MRI studies during the middle of the night or on weekends when local radiologists were unavailable.
If you have been to a doctor in the last year, it is likely someone asked you if you wanted to sign up for the Health System online portal. Lewis Gale uses MyHealth One Carilion / Ballad Health / CVS use MyChart Each and every provider has their own way to confirm appointments, offer test
Why does this keep happening? A Richmond area radiologist, Michael J. Bigg, MD, has been summarily suspended from medical practice amid allegations of repeatedly missing signs of cancer in his patients’ mammograms. The Virginia Board of Medicine found Michael J. Bigg’s practice constituted a danger to public health or safety. Dr. Bigg owns the Allison
If I, as a daughter, mother, patient, plaintiff’s medical malpractice attorney could ask Physicians to do just one thing, it would be – TELL ME WHAT YOU TELL THE OTHER DOCTORS IN MY MEDICAL RECORDS. That may seem like an odd request, but please, if you have a minute, or two, keep reading. So often
My initial plans for this blog post have taken a turn. I initially wanted to comment about how people who need to see their doctor, or even worse, need to be seen immediately in a hospital emergency department, were not being seen or treated because our healthcare system was overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients. Why? Because
