Patients in West Virginia trust doctors to accurately diagnose and treat their symptoms with the utmost care. Medical malpractice is not usually intentional but commonly caused by negligence, oversight, errors or incompetence. Many patients are not aware that...
Even the most experienced doctors can make mistakes, experience temporary lapses of judgment and otherwise err in their diagnoses of patients. The question, then, becomes how you can know if your doctor misdiagnosed your medical condition. It's important that you...
Injuries can be expensive, even beyond just a doctor's visit or missing a few weeks of work. Some injuries can create chronic physical and mental illnesses, and some injuries won't make themselves known until later down the line. West Virginia residents should take...
The journey toward receiving just compensation for injuries received in an auto accident can be full of complications, especially when multiple drivers are at fault. Shared fault is common in many West Virginia accidents, and both law enforcement officers and...
In West Virginia, victims of car accidents can file a claim against the other driver as long as they themselves were deemed less than 50% at fault. It often turns out, especially in wintertime, that both drivers in a crash are responsible to some degree. Knowing how...
If you're like many people in West Virginia, you might have had your tonsils removed when you were a child. Tonsils are made from tissues at the back of your throat and help protect your body from bacteria. But while they're supposed to protect you from disease, they...
Tonsil cancer, which falls under the category of head and neck cancers, is becoming increasingly common. The tonsils, which protect the body from bacteria and viruses that enter the mouth, are more likely to develop cancer if a person suffers from a human...
Every year, thousands of products in West Virginia and throughout the country are recalled due to safety concerns. Under U.S. product liability law, a manufacturer or anyone involved in selling the product to the consumer is liable for injuries caused by the product....
Lewy body dementia is a form of dementia caused by the development of protein deposits known as Lewy bodies in the nerve cells of the brain. In West Virginia and across the U.S., an estimated 1.4 million people have LBD, but the actual number is likely higher because...
It seems that in recent years, the practice of medicine has become less and less personal. While patients once enjoyed routine and adequately long visits with their primary care physician, these visits have increasingly become shorter and more cursory in nature. In...
