Losing a parent, child or spouse is a devastating experience. Realistically, your life will never be the same. You will likely require years to handle your grief. Many psychological professionals estimate it takes between six months and four years for someone to...
All doctors keep notes on their patients. The notes they keep may include diagnostic findings, test results and more. As a patient, it is always smart to look at those notes and to make sure you understand what the findings state. Simply reviewing test results, and...
A job in medicine is a high-demand career. Physicians work long hours and often have to makes sense of seemingly unconnected symptoms to help diagnose their patients. Unfortunately, physicians are often under intense pressure as employees of large, corporate medical...
Blood clots can be dangerous depending on where they are. These clots, which are semisolid lumps of blood, are necessary in some cases. They stop you from losing too much blood after a serious laceration or injury, but they can also block arteries or cause other...
Did you know that a misdiagnosis could lead to serious discomfort, even if it’s not life-threatening? That is often the case with parasitic infections. Parasitic diseases have the potential to cause serious illnesses, but many of them simply make people feel sick or...
It’s always a risk that a medical provider could miss the symptoms and signs of a serious illness, but it shouldn’t be. Those who take their training seriously and who focus their time on really listening to their patients should be able to identify symptoms of...
When police officers arrive at the scene of a crash, they will assign fault for the collision. Chemical impairment, bad driving decisions and inadequate vehicle maintenance could contribute to causing a wreck. The police have to look at all of these factors when they...
Families in Ohio sometimes lose a loved one unexpectedly. Strokes and heart attacks can claim otherwise healthy individuals, and accidental death remains an issue for people of all ages. However, the deaths that some people call accidental are often anything but an...
Medical providers aren’t immune to making mistakes. Unfortunately, those mistakes can quickly put a person’s life in danger or cause them serious injuries. Making a mistake on the dosage of a medication, providing too much of the medication or even prescribing the...
The elderly and patients with paralysis or other illnesses may not be able to move around as much as they once did. They may be bedbound or in a wheelchair for many hours a day. They might need help to roll over or move in any way. Unfortunately, when one area of the...
