Medical

As an attorney we are prohibited from advancing money to a client to assist them in lasting through the long years of the litigation. However, some clients who are injured cannot survive on savings or SSI and often need assistance. CBS 60 Minutes ran a program on...

I am frequently asked: How is it possible to miss a fracture? My response: Simple. At the time of the initial film the injury may not have been visible on the films. A fall may have occurred, or the individual may have been in an automobile accident and suffered...

If you are going to represent patients in medical malpractice actions you have to be prepared, with every case taken, that you may have to try the case in court. The attorney who is not prepared to try the case, does not prepare properly and the case will either be...

The public service announcements routinely advise the audience that if you are with someone who suddenly collapses, who might develop a slurring of speech, a weakness in an extremity, develops blurry vision—-call 911. Get that person to the hospital and fast. The...

WHO IS TREATING YOU? Emergency Room Hazards LEE S. GOLDSMITH, M.D., LLB You go to an Emergency Room, you are need of care—-What care will you get? What care should you expect? Obviously the care that you will get and should expect is going to be dependent on where you...

NOT YOUR REGULAR CASE SURPRISING TWIST LEE S. GOLDSMITH, M.D., LLB Over the years we have handled many cases in which there was a failure to diagnosis breast cancer due to a radiologists failure to appropriately read and interpret either a mammogram or an ultrasound....