Rodney Mesquias, CEO of the Merida Group, defrauded several patients by telling them they had less than six months to live and enrolled them in hospice programs. Patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia were included. A federal jury in McAllen sentenced him to 20 years in prison and ordered him to pay $120 million in restitution….
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If you, or someone you love, suffers from diabetes, chances are that you have heard of a medicine called Metformin. Metformin is a popular and inexpensive diabetes medication which works with enzymes on the liver to lower glucose absorption from food and the production of new glucose. In other words, it is used to control…
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Si tiene causa para presentar una demanda por mala práctica médica o mala praxis en Houston, TX, es importante entender las leyes del Estado y cómo podrían afectar su caso. Desde los estatutos de limitaciones hasta el límite en la cantidad de daños no económicos, hay muchos términos y conceptos por entender. Saber todo esto…
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Despite your best efforts to look after your aging parents, you may lack the time, training and equipment they need to grow older as gracefully, and with as much dignity, as possible. As a result, older adults often transition to life in a nursing home facility. You might think paying thousands of dollars each month…
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According to a report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the number of human mistakes increased by almost 20 percent after losing an hour from daylight savings. Researchers used eight years’ worth of data to study errors that occurred in the seven days before and after the spring and fall time changes. Most of…
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From April through June of 2020, emergency actions against doctors’ licenses dropped by 59%. This overall drop was driven by declines between 50% and 100% in six states, including Texas. Such a drop caused many patient safety advocates to worry, because many hospitals still have vulnerable and compromised patients, making errors more likely and more…
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If you are not a licensed medical professional, illness lends itself to turning to your physician for appropriate treatment options, often including the use of prescription drugs. Whether upon admittance to the hospital for supervised care or your return home with pills and a set of instructions, medications intended to help you get better could…
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Last month, an El Paso couple filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking damages over $1 million and alleging gross negligence against El Paso Children’s Hospital and a prominent local doctor over the death of their three-year-old daughter. According to the lawsuit, the family alleges the hospital and doctor intentionally created profit-driven policies that caused extreme…
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