Endovascular Intervention for Stroke
For treatment of stroke, “time is brain.” This means the sooner that treatment can restore blood...
Delay in Diagnosis of Cancer in Young Women
A delay in diagnosis of cancer can spell disaster for young women with breast cancer. Physicians...
Did The Doctor Diagnose Your Stroke F.A.S.T. Enough?
When the diagnosis of stroke is unnecessarily delayed, the patient’s treatment options become critically limited. Thromboembolic strokes,...
Surgical Errors: Wrong Side Surgery
Surgical errors are often preventable. Clearly, wrong side surgeries are preventable. In 2002, the National Quality...
FAQs: How Do I Obtain My Medical Records?
FAQs: How does a patient obtain his/her medical records from an Ohio physician or hospital when he/she is...
Birth Injuries: Postpartum Hemorrhage
When we write about birth injuries, our focus is typically on the newborn. Injuries such as...
For Patients: How Big Pharm Corrupts Medical Practices
For patients, trusting your physician to put your interests first is taken for granted. But what happens...
New Stroke Guidelines Recommend Early Use of Clot Busters
New guidelines published by the American Heart Association (AHA) urge administration of clot busting medications, called tissue plasminogen...
Avoiding PML-Type Brain Injury in MS Patients
A type of brain injury, called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), can occur as a result of complications from...
