Medical Malpractice & Personal Injury Blog

Most people have heard of sepsis and know that it can be dangerous, but many people don’t know exactly what sepsis is. Because sepsis is common and can lead to death if not treated promptly, we have decided to devote a blog post to the topic. Aware… Read More

A recent Washington Supreme Court case held that it is permissible for courts in a “wrongful life” lawsuit to award extraordinary damages. In the case at hand, those extraordinary damages totaled $10 million. We’ll discuss the case and its impl… Read More

Medical errors are estimated to cause 250,000 deaths each year in the United States. That’s the rough equivalent of two 737s crashing each day of the year and killing everyone aboard. Medical mistakes are so common, in fact, that they are the third… Read More

All surgery carries some risk, which is why surgeons and hospitals require patients to sign forms prior to surgery indicating that they are giving “informed consent.” In other words, the patient has been told of the things that can go wrong and t… Read More

In TV medical dramas, it often happens that a patient comes into the hospital with troublesome, mysterious symptoms. She is immediately seen by a world-class doctor, who involves the other exceptional doctors at the facility in the medical mystery. E… Read More

Counseling is a deeply personal process. In order for therapy to be effective, you need to feel comfortable with your therapist and trust him or her. Ordinarily, we build comfort and trust in relationships by sharing increasingly more personal inform… Read More

Stroke is a leading cause of death in the United States, and one out of every six deaths due to cardiovascular disease is due to stroke. Each year, about 795,000 people in this country have a stroke, and 610,000 of those are first strokes. In other w… Read More

A good listener. Reliable. Smart. Interested in your well-being. Empathic. Helpful. These are traits that we all value in a friend. These are also things that describe an effective therapist. It’s no wonder, then, that so many people wish that they… Read More