Medicine isn’t the easiest career. Mistakes can and do happen. Anyone who has ever been through some kind of medical treatment is likely aware that just one slip up, one small mistake, one misunderstanding can result in medical malpractice. Unfortunately, even though the medical profession does a fine job under difficult circumstances, bad things do happen and patients get improper treatment or the wrong treatment altogether. The wrong treatment puts a patient’s health and welfare […]

Wrongful death happens when someone dies as a result of another’s negligence. Unfortunately, this happens more often than we think. Wrongful death is a bit of an unusual term, because there is no such thing as a death that is right. As awkward as it may seem, to understand what wrongful death is, you have to look at the bigger picture. When someone dies as the result of the negligence or inaction of another person […]

California Health Insurance agent Matt Lockard did his best to cheer Dorothy up, but she still feels like “she’s in Oz” since crashing her 10-speed into her high school’s cement façade. The first few days back in school felt like a pleasant dream to Dorothy. Each day that week, she rode her spiffy new 10-speed to her high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Her purple bike had been safely tethered to the […]

Social Security and the Deficit Commission: Myths and Realities Social Security turned 75 on August 14. While some celebrated its successes, the dominant narrative was instead that Social Security is in trouble. Politicians and pundits took note of Social Security’s anniversary amid renewed warnings about the dire challenges the program is facing. In the political realm, discussion of Social Security has degraded more to the level of insult slinging and demagoguery than actual policy discussion. […]

Medical malpractice comes in many forms. In this case, it resulted from a transplanted cancerous kidney. This trial will be fairly long given the bizarre nature of this case. This medical malpractice lawsuit was the result of an organ transplantation that turned out to be deadly for the recipient. “The plaintiff is the widow of a man who died of uterine cancer after his kidney transplant. Yes, I did say uterine cancer. This is a […]

An overzealous football coach pushed 31 football players into physical collapse in Portland, Ore., this summer. Four ultimately needed surgery. This is a bizarre case where a high school football coach got carried away during what he referred to as a football “total immersion” camp. “This particular football camp took place at the local high school and required the players to camp overnight on the school campus for this event. There were three practices slated […]

If politics weren’t involved in comprehensive immigration reform, it might have been accomplished by now. The only one thing that remains a given – as far as it can be, that is – is the fact that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act 2009 has been tabled. That should mean that the subcommittees working on it, citizenship, refugees, international law, border security and immigration, should really enact it. But Bill HR4321 […]

“Anchor babies” is an offensive term that has many people up in arms. It’s new terminology in the comprehensive immigration reform debate. It’s amazing how people coin various terms when they’re trying to make a point about something. The new term, “anchor babies,” likely would never have surfaced had it not been for the call for a reassessment of the 14th Amendment. Some feel that it wrongly protects the children of undocumented immigrants. The whole […]

While not many people drink the shower water, if it is contaminated it may still harm us by penetrating through skin. Not too many people realize that the shower water may also be a source of contaminated water. For some reason they don’t tend to associate that water with contaminated kitchen or bathroom tap water. There are very few people who actually drink the shower water, but the contaminants in the water are capable of […]

Drinking eight glasses of water a day is a great idea. Drinking eight glasses of water with contaminates is not a great idea. Drinking the doctor-recommended eight glasses of water per day a good thing to do for one’s health. The problem is getting that water from a source that is not contaminated. To be safe, make that source a water distiller or have a water distillation installed in the home. Drinking water directly from […]