When you are in police custody, you are completely dependent on the police for every basic need: your food, your ability to communicate with your loved ones, and your medical care. And regardless of what you may have done to end up in police custody,…
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Allergic reactions can be terrifying to experience. Anaphylaxis is a severe, systemic allergic reaction; it is life-threatening, and requires immediate treatment. In anaphylaxis, blood pressure plummets, airways swell, and patients can lose conscious…
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When we talk about personal injury and medical malpractice, we often refer to the “elements” of a claim: those assertions that must be proven for the claim to succeed. The elements of a medical malpractice claim are: The existence of a duty of ca…
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Going into a hospital or surgical center for a needed surgical procedure, and waking up to find you’ve had the wrong operation, or surgery on the wrong site, is a patient’s nightmare. And while “wrong person, wrong procedure, wrong site” surg…
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Nearly everyone alive has experienced pain—sometimes mild and fleeting, sometimes serious and chronic. Considering how universal the experience of pain is, it’s surprising that medical professionals don’t do a better job of understanding and ma…
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Nobody likes to be in the hospital, and most people who are hospitalized want to leave as soon as it’s safe for them to do so. The last part of that sentence is the key: even if you don’t want to be in the hospital, you also don’t want to be fo…
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Colon cancer, sometimes called colorectal cancer, is one of the most common cancers; it is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the U.S. and worldwide. In this country, about one in 23 men and one in 25 women will be diagno…
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Most of us have experienced the frustration of understaffing, whether as customers waiting at a counter to be served, or as employees with tasks flying at us faster than we can field them. And no matter which end you are on, you know that being short…
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When you think of medical emergencies, heart attacks rank pretty high on the list. Hospitals think so, too, which is why people suspected of having a heart attack are given priority in the emergency department. The medical term for a heart attack is…
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Intubation is a common medical procedure. When intubating a patient, medical professionals insert a tube, called an endotracheal tube, into the patient’s trachea (airway). The tube helps to keep the airway open for oxygen delivery and removal of ca…
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