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Minor Surgeries With Major Medical Bills

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Medical Bills | Stroud, Flechas & Dalton | Southhaven, MSIf you’re wondering why your minor surgery racked up a surprising medical bill?

Minor medical problems are racking up bills because they often involve doctors from specialties, like dermatology, which are among the highest skilled and compensated in the world of medicine.

According to an article from the NY Times, these specialists have been able to steady increase their revenues by offering new and more lucrative procedures.  Minor procedures typically offer the best return on investment for the specialist, according to the article. A minor procedure can be performed a dozen times in the same amount of time as one larger surgery, such as a bypass operation. [Read more…]

Acetaminophen: Too Much Is Dangerous

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Your head may be throbbing, but your body can’t handle as much Advil as you are tempted to take.

The popular painkiller acetaminophen—which can be found in over the counter products such as Extra Strength Tylenol and Advil  — is raising cause for concern. According to the recent article in USA Today, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) plans to implement regulatory action on over-the-counter acetaminophen. [Read more…]

Birth-Related Medical Malpractice

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Childbirth is an amazing experience for young mothers. Welcoming a new life into the world, holding your baby for the first time; the enthrallment with your new son or daughter is absolutely incredible.

Unfortunately for many new mothers in Northern Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee, the experience of childbirth does not always end well. The matter becomes even worse when an injury has occurred due to the negligence or carelessness of the doctor or medical staff in the delivery room.

Birth-related medical malpractice occurs when a doctor, hospital, or other medical fails to use reasonable care. This may lead to injury to the mother or child ruing pregnancy or delivery, wrongful birth, or wrongful pregnancy. [Read more…]

Surgeon’s Hand Dexterity Could Affect Operation Outcome

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When you have a condition or injury requiring surgery, fear and nervousness must be quelled by the consideration and promise of your surgeon, showing that you are in good hands.

Unfortunately, not all surgeons are as capable as others. The skill and precision levels of a surgeon often decide the success and recovery time of a surgery.

In a recent New York Times article, many doctors who scrubbed in with two different surgeons noted extreme differences in accidents during the surgery, the elapsed time during the procedure, the amount of infections or complications following surgery, and the recovery time afterwards. [Read more…]

Does CoQ10 affect other medicines?

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CoQ10 | Southaven, MS Medical Malpractice Attorney | Stroud, Flechas & DaltonAs an experienced medical malpractice attorney in Southaven, Mississippi, I am often asked by clients about certain drugs or pharmaceuticals they feel may be having adverse affects on their health.

One such drug that often comes up in conversation is Coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10 as it is commonly referred to as. CoQ10 is usually taken by patients in supplement form to counteract muscle pain and weakness caused by cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

Whether CoQ10 is actually helping—or worse, hurting—patients, is currently up for debate in the medical community. [Read more…]

Fresenius GranuFlo linked to cardiac failure?

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You may have heard of some of the Fresenius GranuFlo© cases across the Northern Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee metro areas. These are class action suits based upon claims made by patients and patients’ families relating to cardiac failure after receiving dialysis at various Fresenius dialysis clinics.

As an experienced medical malpractice attorney in Southaven, Mississippi serving Northern Mississippi and the Memphis metro area, I thought I’d address these claims and help explain what is going on.

To best explain the situation, I’ll use the help of an article from Allnurses.com.

At the end of a four-day conference in 2009, it was found that many cardiac deaths, the number one cause of death for dialysis patients, were not caused buy atherosclerotic disease but rather by uremic cardiomyopathy. [Read more…]

Fresenius GranuFlo linked to cardiac failure?

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You may have heard of some of the Fresenius GranuFlo© cases across the Northern Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee metro areas. These are class action suits based upon claims made by patients and patients’ families relating to cardiac failure after receiving dialysis at various Fresenius dialysis clinics.

As an experienced medical malpractice attorney in Southaven, Mississippi serving Northern Mississippi and the Memphis metro area, I thought I’d address these claims and help explain what is going on.

To best explain the situation, I’ll use the help of an article from Allnurses.com.

At the end of a four-day conference in 2009, it was found that many cardiac deaths, the number one cause of death for dialysis patients, were not caused buy atherosclerotic disease but rather by uremic cardiomyopathy. [Read more…]

Deadly Injections Lead To Mississippi Murder Charges

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A man in Mississippi has finally received a trial date after being charged following the death of Georgia woman who was given counterfeit cosmetic buttock injections.

The man, Tracey Lynn Garner, will go to trial on June 10 in Hinds County Circuit Court. Garner is one of two people who have been charged in connection with the death of an Atlanta woman, Karima Gordon. The other person who will be charged, Natasha Stewart, was arrested in Memphis back in January. Stewart is an adult entertainer and also goes by the name Pebbelz Da Model. Prosecutors have announced that the two defendants will be tried for depraved-heart murder. [Read more…]

Mississippi Man Charged with Depraved Heart Murder After Performing Illegal Butt Implant Procedure

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A tragic and bizarre series of events has led a Mississippi man who dresses and lives as a woman to be charged with depraved-heart murder after performing an illegal buttocks implant that eventually resulted in the death of a Georgia woman.

Morris Garner, who also goes by the name Tracey Lynn Garner, has been charged with conducting the procedure in March at his house in Jackson, Mississippi. The Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced during a press conference that Garner had no training or legal license to perform such a procedure.

Police officers have said they are now beginning the testing phase of the process and are examining the substance that was injected into the victim and believe it is some kind of counterfeit silicone. [Read more…]

Mississippi law update: Mississippi Abortion Clinic Open After Emergency Ruling

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U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III, decided to temporarily block a new law in Mississippi that, if enforced, would shut down the state’s sole abortion clinic. The owner of Jackson Women’s Health Organization said on Monday it was “business as usual” and the clinic’s two physicians will continue to see patients and do abortions unless a court orders them to stop. Lawyers who know him say Jordan, a former GOP county chairman, does not play politics and, despite his personal feelings, has no ideological agenda behind his rulings.

The clinic in question, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, filed a lawsuit June 27 challenging the new law that was to take effect July 1. [Read more…]